July 5

August 22, 2025 - Reading time: 7 minutes

Saints days : Antonio Maria Zacarías, Atanasio, Miguel de los Santos, Numeriano, Aroa, Cirila, Filomena, Sedofa, Trifina, Zoa.

1601 - begins the siege of Ostend by thirds of the Spanish Empire.
1811 - Venezuela declares independence from Spain with the participation of 42 deputies, including Juan Germán Roscio and Francisco de Miranda.

1937 - Republican offensive by Brunete
1968 - Javier Cortes Alvarez de Miranda discovers in Pedrosa de la Vega (Palencia) Roman Villa La Olmeda, considered one of the most important archaeological sites of the Hispanic Roman world.
2011 - Santiago de Compostela is stolen the Codex Calixtinus.

Blas Infante

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2022 - An independent commission that is to conduct the first official probe into suspected sexual abuse of minors within the Catholic Church opened

2023 - The European Union's General Court today stripped the leader of Catalonia's failed bid for independence from the legal immunity he had as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) as he faces legal procedures in Spain. The decision is a blow for Carles Puigdemont, who lives in self-imposed exile in Belgium, because it could pave the way for him to eventually be extradited to Spain, as Spanish authorities have requested for the past six years. He fled Spain in 2017 to avoid prosecution following a short-lived declaration of independence that prompted Madrid to take direct control of the wealthy region.

In its ruling, the Luxembourg-based court rejected the appeal filed by Puigdemont and backed the European Parliament's decision to waive his immunity and that of two other self-exiled Catalan separatist MEPs, Toni Comin and Clara Ponsatí.

Births
1813 - Antonio García Gutiérrez, writer.
1846 - Zoel García de Galdeano, mathematician (d. 1924)
1871 - Miguel Asín Palacios, writer.
1879 - José Millán-Astray, soldier and founder of the Spanish Legion.
1885 - Blas Infante, Andalucia historian and politician (d. 1936)
1886 - Evaristo Bozas Urrutia, journalist and writer.
1911 - Luis Díez del Corral, political scientist (d. 1998)
1914 - Herrerita, footballer (d. 1991).
1920 - Rafael Alonso, actor.
1931 - José Antonio Fernández Romero, translator.
1964 - Uxue Barkos, journalist and Basque deputy.
1969 - Chusa Barbero, actress.
1970 - Valentí Massana, race walker
1982 - Javier Paredes, footballer
1988 - Lucía Pérez, singer. Eurovision 2011 representative based in Düsseldorf
1992 - Alberto Moreno, footballer

Deaths
1316 - Ferdinand of Majorca (b. 1278)
1468 - Alfonso de Castilla, infante .
1522 - Antonio de Nebrija, humanist (b. 1441).
1795 - Antonio de Ulloa, naturalist, soldier and writer (b. 1716).
1817 - Luis Lacy y Gautier, soldier (b. 1772).
1882 - Antonio Aguilar y Vela, astronomer.
1968 - Enrique Plá y Deniel, cardenal.
1985 - Paulino Uzcudun, boxer (b. 1899).
1989 - Ernesto Halffter, composer.
1998 - Maria Mercè Marçal, poet, lecturer, storyteller and Catalan translator.
2003 - Fernando Arbex, Drummer (Los Brincos) (b. 1941).