March 20
Saint’s Day for Eufemia, Claudia, Nicetas and Wulfrano.
1179 - Alfonso VIII and Alfonso II, king of Castile and Aragon, respectively, have signed the treaty of Cazola, by which both kingdoms areas of conquest in al-Andalus spread: Valencia, Denia and Játiva for Aragon and other territories Castilla Muslims.
1254 - The villages of Calatayud succeeded in Community configured for privilege of James I, King of Aragon.
1565 - Philip II, king of Spain, instructs Pedro Menendez de Aviles conquest and conversion to the Catholic faith of the natives of the provinces of Florida.
1801 - a new decree is issued expelling Jesuits from Spain, just three years after a previous decree had allowed those expelled by Carlos III in 1767 to return home.
1823 - The Spanish Cortes without waiting for the advance of the troops decide to transfer French- and King from Madrid to Sevilla and Cádiz, with the hope that the French presence causes widespread resistance movement, similar to 1808.
1865 - Madrid, Emilio Castelar is reprimanded by the authors of the article "The trait," published in the newspaper La Democracia.
1873 - Republican National Assembly of Spain approves the abolition of slavery on the island of Puerto Rico.
1882 - The reconstruction of the Alcazar of Segovia begins.
1888 - In the ancient citadel of Barcelona, which has been turned into a park, the regent Maria Cristina inaugurated the Universal Exhibition.
1915 - in the Barcelona observatory, the astronomer José Comas y Solá, discovers the asteroid 804, baptized with the name of Hispania. It is the first asteroid discovered by Spanish scientists.
1928 - the civil governor of Barcelona prohibits the entry of young people under 18 years in the ballrooms unless accompanied by a family member.
1931 - martial of the leaders of the revolt of Jaca . A woman, Victoria Kent, intervenes for the first time in an event of this kind, as an advocate for one of the defendants.
1964 - Council of Ministers decided, by decree, declared payable April 1 and unrecoverable national holiday.
1997 - The Spanish Justice condemns Mario Conde, former president of Banesto, to six years in prison for misappropriation and falsification of commercial documents relating to the "case Argentia Trust."
Births
1927 - Josep Guinovart, painter.
1929 - Germán Robles, Spanish-Mexican film, theatre, television, and voice actor (El Vampiro) born in Gijón, Asturias (d. 2015)
1935 - Lolita Sevilla, singer and actress.
1937 - The prolific actress Lina Morgan was born in Madrid
1940 - José Manuel Otero, judge and writer.
1948 - José Ramón García Antón, politician (d. 2009).
1965 - Benito Zambrano, screenwriter and filmmaker.
1979 - Silvia Abascal, actress
1984 - Fernando Torres, footballer
1986 - Beñat Intxausti, ciclist.
Deaths
1916 - Miguel Romero, poet.
1968 - Antonio Riquelme, actor (b. 1894).
1975 - Jaime de Borbón y Battenberg, aristocrat (b. 1908).
1984 - Raúl Chávarri, art critic and writer.
1998 - Agustín Gómez Arcos, writer and dramatist.
2005 - Manuel Balsera Rodríguez, mayor.
2005 - Antonio Fernández Molina, poet, narrator and painter
2014 - Iñaki Azkuna, academic and politician (b. 1943)