May 24

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Saints Days: Juan de Prado, María Auxiliadora, Susana and Ester.

843:- Abd al-Rahman II and his armies leave Córdoba to conquer Navarra

1667 - The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.

1822 . Battle of Pichincha, Simón Bolívar secures the independence of Ecuador from Spain
1858 - between Madrid and Alicante, the royal train starts the journey of the last section of the railway, which was the first of importance built in Spain.
1872 - Convention of Amorebieta, who settled the Carlist uprising previous April 14 concrete.
1876 - Congress of Deputies approves the Constitution that was in force in Spain until the Second Republic (except the parenthesis of the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera).
1981 - assault on the headquarters of the Central Bank in the Plaza de Catalunya in Barcelona. Hours later GEOS release the hostages and arrest the ten assailants.
1994 - Madrid ETA kills the lieutenant Miguel Peralta Utrera, 47, a bomb attached to his car.
2000 - Real Madrid C. F. wins thier eighth European Cup against Valencia in Paris.
2009 - officially constituted the Community Media Network in Spain

2023 - The Spanish government has approved two funding packages, that are to be shared among each of the regions: €38.9 million for mental health services, and another €579.1 million for primary care infrastructure and new clinical equipment in health centres. Both funding pledges were announced by Pedro Sánchez recently in Valencia while on the campaign trail for upcoming local and regional elections on Sunday. In Spain, healthcare policy is delegated to the regional governments. The government pledge therefore, is intended to reinforce the regional health care programmes

2024 - .Spain's National Police on Friday gave details on four people killed when a building housing a bar and restaurant club collapsed on the island of Mallorca. Police said two German women, aged 20 and 30, died, along with a 33-year-old Spanish woman and a 44-year-old Senegalese man. The Spanish woman worked in the club, they said. Palma de Mallorca Mayor Jaime Martínez and firefighter department spokesman Eder García told reporters that excess weight on a first-floor terrace may have caused the collapse Thursday.

Births
1723 - Antonio Caballero y Góngora, religious man and Viceroy of New Granada, was born. (d. 1796)

1736 - Juan de Sesé y Balaguer, composer, born in Calanda, Aragón (d. 1801)

1821 - Juan Bautista Topete, admiral and politician (d. 1885)

1903 - Domingo Pérez Minik, writer (d. 1989).
1907 - José María Lacarra de Miguel, historian. (d,1987)
1911 - Javier Malagón, jurist (d. 1990).
1916 - Luis Romero, writer. (d. 2009)
1919 - Juanito Valderrama, famous singer (d. 2004)
1933 - Joaquín Vaquero Turcios, sculptor and painter. (d. 2010)
1936 - Luis Llongueras, hairdresser.
1938 - Luis Ramallo, politician.
1944 - Vavá, footballer.
1947 - José Acosta Cubero, MP.
1949 - Ricardo Franco, film producer.
1961 - Ismael Urtubi, footballer.
1963 - Antonio Marquez, dancer and choreographer.

Deaths
1627 - Luis de Góngora, poet and cleric (b. 1561)
1665 - Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, Franciscan abbess and mystic (b. 1602)
1877 - Ramón Cabrera, Carlist general. (b. 1806)
1949 - Eduardo Chicharro, painter. (b. 1873)
1992 - Javier Basilio, journalist. (b. 1928)
1996 - José Cuatrecasas, botanist and pharmacist (b. 1903)
1998 - Lucio Muñoz, painter. (b.1929)
1999 - Ramón Rubial Cavia, politician. (b. 1906)
2001 - Urruti, famous goalkeeper (b. 1952)
2009 - Pedro Sempson, actor (b. 1920).
2011 - Luis Angel Rojo, economist, academic professor (b. 1934)
2013 - Antonio Puchades, footballer (b. 1925).
2013 - Alfonso Santisteban, musician (b. 1943).