December 23
Saint’s Day for Juan de Kety, Victoria, Saturnino, Evaristo and Gelasio
1292 - In Palencia, the Hospital de la Herrada grants to the village Quintanilla de Onsoña the Charter.
1524 - The ruler of Valencia, Dona Germana de Foix, grant a pardon to prayers.
1569 - The mayor Juan Rodríguez de Villafuerte Maldonado left Granada with 9,000 infants to combat with the Moriscos rebelled, heading towards Güéjar Sierra.
1598 - In the Kingdom of Chile, the governor Martín García dies when being ambushed by forces mapuches directed by Pelantaro (the Spaniards would call to this event the Disaster of Curalaba).
1715 - A meeting between the Queen of Spain, Isabella Farnese, and princess Ursinos held in Jadraque (Guadalajara).
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1808 - José Bonaparte was restored to the throne of Spain by the French army.
1889 - The Columbus House is created in Huelva as the Huelva Recreation Club (now Real Club Recreativo de Huelva, dean of Spanish soccer club).
1906 - Praise for the Spanish King Alfonso XIII for resolving the border dispute between Honduras and Nicaragua.
1907 - Two bombs explode in different parts of Barcelona, injuring four people.
1910 - The Government of Canalejas approved the "padlock law", which prevents the establishment in Spain of new religious orders without the express authorization of the Council of Ministers.
1925 - Ramon Menendez Pidal was elected director of the Royal Spanish Academy.
1932 - Promulgated in Spain the law of income tax.
1955 - Jose Felix Lequerica is appointed representative of Spain in the UN.
1968 - Spanish is declared the language of work in the UN Security Council.
1974 - 5,000 workers Cadiz Astilleros Españoles are suspended without pay.
1978 - Spain abolished the death penalty for the military in peacetime.
1985 - ETA killed John Atarés in Pamplona, General of the Civil Guard.
Births
1637 - Rodrigo Arias Maldonado, missionary. (d. 1716)
1644 - Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco, organist and composer born in Villarrobledo. (d. 1728)
1807 - Antonio María Claret, Catholic bishop (d. 1870)
1815 - Ildefons Cerda, Barcelona town planner and political engineer. (d. 1876)
1848 - Julio Somoza de Montsoriú y García Sala, historian. (d. 1940)
1872 - Santiago Alba Bonifaz, politician (d. 1949)
1881 - Juan Ramón Jiménez, poet, Prize Nobel for Literature in 1956 (d. 1958)
1898 - Rafael Rivelles, actor (d. 1971)
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1911 - Maria Amelia López Soliño, Galician blogger. (d. 2009)
1926 - Joseíto (José Iglesias Fernández), football player/manager (d. 2007)
1934 - Luis Gómez-Acebo, aristocrat (d. 1991)
1941 - Carlos Cruz de Castro, composer.
1950 - Vicente del Bosque, footballer and manager
1969 - Secun de la Rosa, actor.
1981 - Beth, (Elisabeth Rodergas Cols) singer and actress
1982 - Beatriz Luengo, ballerina and singer
1988 - Georgina Latre, actress.
Deaths
1230 - Berengaria of Navarre (b. 1165)
1598 - Martín García Óñez de Loyola was a Basque soldier and Royal Governor of the Captaincy General of Chile. Very likely Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, was his uncle. Is killed in the Battle of Curalaba when Spanish troops are defeated by the Mapuche Indians. (b. 1549)
1814 - Mary of Consolation Azlor, heroin. (b. 1775)
1956 - Josep Puig i Cadafalch, architect (b. 1867)
1962 - José Giral, político español (b. 1879)
1962 - Modesto López Otero, architect (b. Feb 24 1885 Valladolid)
1962 - José Giral y Pereira, politician. (b. 1879)
1974 - Florentino Pérez-Embid, historian (b. 1918)
1985 - Juan Atarés Peña, retired Civil Guard General, is shot dead by ETA terrorists as he was walking through a park in Pamplona. (b, 1960)
1988 - Consuelo Berges, writer (b. 1899)
1991 - José Guerrero, painter (b. 1914)
1994 - Enrique Segura Iglesias, painter (b. 1906)
1995 - Joan Sardà i Dexeus, economist (b. 1910)
2009 - Carlos López García-Picos, composer (b. 1922)
2013 - José Ortiz, illustrator (b. 1932)