December 6

December 6, 2025 - Reading time: 6 minutes

Saint’s Day for Emiliano and Nicolás de Bari.

1534 - The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1797 - The Spanish military Joaquín del Pino Sánchez was appointed governor of Chile.
1978 - a landmark day in Spain, when 88% of the Spanish people ratified the new Spanish Constitution which was approved by parliament on 31st October 1978. It’s now celebrated as a public holiday, the Día de la Constitución Española.

2017 - ‘the separatists maintain the ‘process’ without a new plan’ – the Supreme judge annulled the European Arrest Warrant for Puigdemont to avoid him being benefitted from Belgium Justice. Constitution Day With forty years of existence, never before has it been so challenged and questioned so openly. From the long recession to the rampant corruption, the political crisis has combined to leave space for the more extreme.

2017 - Mariano Rajoy and Theresa May outside No 10 Downing Street – a brief but cordial meeting where both supported each other’s hot potatoes – Cataluña and Brexit – May supported Rajoy’s response to the Catalan crisis and Rajoy thanked her being ‘clear and firm’ and Rajoy voiced optimism of a final Brexit agreement.

Births
1285 - Fernando IV, King of Castilla y León.
1814 - Juan Prim and Prats, Count of Reus, Marquis of Castillejos and Viscount of Bruch, military and liberal politician who was President of the Spanish Council of Ministers of Spain.
1821 - Manuel Fernández y González, writer.
1839 - Manuel Ossorio y Bernard journalist (d. 1904)
1887 - Carlos Martínez de Campos, soldier and writer.
1888 - Emiliana de Zubeldía e Inda, Basque composer and pianist.
1902 - Xosé Manuel Cabada Vazquez, poet and prose writer in Galician and Spanish.
1913 - Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois, writer.
1921 - Luis Cuenca, actor who won the 1996 Goya for Best Supporting Actor in ‘La Buena Vida,’ was born in Navalmoral de la Mata, Cáceres.
1921 - Gustavo Couttolenc, writer, Canon, Professor and Mexican academic who specialized in the translation of works from Latin into Spanish.

1925 - Carnen Martín Gaite, author, born in Salamanca (d. 2000)
1929 - Javier Cortes Alvarez de Miranda, discoverer of the Villa Romana La Olmeda and Academic Institution Tello Téllez de Meneses archaeologist.
1930 - Eladio Cabañero, poet.
1951 - Paco Lobatón, journalist.
1930 - Carmelo Cedrún, goalkeeper.
1979 - Fran Yeste, footballer.
1982 - Alberto Contador, cyclist

Deaths
1300 - San Pedro Nicolás Pascual, saint.
1558 - Juan de Celaya, humanist (b. 1490)
1658 - Baltasar Gracián, priest and author (b. 1601)
1835 - Ignacio Alonso Zapatero, guerrilla and military.
1865 - Sebastián Iradier, composer (b. 1809)
1876 - Manuel Cantero de San Vicente, economist and politician (b. 1804)
1888 - Manuel Fernández y González, writer.
1943 - Ricardo León, writer. (b. 1877)
1977 - Juan Antonio Suanzes, military politician (b. 1891)
1995 - Luis Regueiro, footballer (b. 1908)
2003 - José María ‘El Chaba’ Jiménez, cyclist who won eight stages of the Tour de España, died suddenly of a heart attack aged 32 in Madrid.
2009 - Pedro Altares, journalist. (b. 1935)