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November 26


Saint’s Day for Leonardo de Puerto Mauricio, Mártires de Córdoba.

783 - The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Maturates.
1820 - In the city of Trujillo (Venezuela), the Government of the Republic of Gran Colombia and the Kingdom of Spain sign the Treaty of Regularization of War, which ends the "War to the Death" between patriots and royalists.

The Covadonga - https://en.wikipedia.org/

1838 - Madrid Primary Education Act was passed.
1844 - General Ramon Maria Narvaez was appointed first president of the Council of Ministers.
1865 - Chile captures the Spanish ship, Covadonga, in the Battle of Papudo, in a series of naval battles fought between Spain and its former colonies of Chile and Peru, known as the Chincha Islands War.
1978 - For the first time an acting King of Spain visited Argentina.
1997 - The Social and Economic Council in Andalucia was created.
2005 - Young environmentalist Green youth organization is founded.
2009 - twelve Catalan newspapers jointly publish the editorial Dignity of Catalonia defending the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, under review by the Constitutional Court of Spain.
2016 -  Another failure of the Spanish education system’. PP, PSOE and Ciudadanos agree to ‘substitute’ the Lomce for a new law with the ‘vocation of stability’ against the eight models which have succeeded during the democracy, after the schooling fiasco as a common balance  ‘the PP has accepted for the first time to substitute the Lomce for a new education law’

Births
1780 - Infanta Maria Teresa of Spain and Vallabriga, XV Countess of Chinchon and I Marquise de Boadilla del Monte. (d. 1820)
1786: - José María Queipo de Llano, historian President of the Spanish Government between 1835-1836 (d. 1843)
1822 - Eduardo Benot Rodríguez was a lexicographer, academic, poet, educator and politician advocate of federal republicanism. Follower of Francisco Pi y Margall, he briefly served as Minister of Development during the First Spanish Republic, born in Cádiz (d. 1907 Madrid)
1848 - José del Castillo y Soriano, writer and journalist.  (d. 1928 in Madrid)
1899 - Miguel Román Garrido, soldier. (d. 1960 in Granada)
1906 - Rodrigo Uría González, lawyer, Premio Príncipe de Asturias 1990. (d. 2001 Madrid)
1913 - Josep Antoni Coderch, architect (d. 1984)
1922 - José María López de Letona y Núñez del Pino, politician who served as Minister of Industry between 1969 and 1973 during the Francoist dictatorship, born in Burgos (d. 2018 in Madrid)
1952 - Francisco 'Paco' Flores Lajusticia is a retired football forward and coach. His career was closely associated with Espanyol, as both a player and manager, born in Barcelona 
1963 - Lydia Bosch who first appeared on television in the popular quiz show ‘Un, dos, tres,’
1968 - Eugenia Martínez de Irujo, noble.
1973 - Paula Vázquez, television presenter and actress 
1980 - Albert Montañés, tennis player.
1984 - Antonio Puerta, the Sevilla left winger who died after collapsing on the pitch during the first league match of the 2007 season was born in Sevilla.


Deaths
Queen Isabella I - https://www.rct.uk/
1504 - Isabella 1, also called Isabella the Catholic, was Queen of Castile from 1474 until her death in 1504, as well as Queen consort of Aragón from 1479 until 1504 by virtue of her marriage to King Ferdinand II of Aragón (b. 1451)
1661 - Luis Méndez de Haro, general and politician (b. 1598)
1949 - Mateo Hernández Sánchez, sculptor. (b. 1884)
1969 - La Niña de los Peines, flamenco singer songwriter (b. 1890)
1981 - Regino Sainz de la Maza, guitarist. (b. 1895 Burgos)
1985 - Pablo Serrano Aguilar, abstract sculptor. (b. 1908)
1994 - Ricard Giralt Miracle, graphic designer. (b. 1911 Barcelona)
2006 - Isaac Gálvez. the Spanish sprint cyclist, the world Madison champion died from internal bleeding after a collision with another cyclist in the Ghent Six Day track cycling race. (b. 1975)
2007 - Manuel Badenes, footballer (b. 1928)
2010 - Francisco Fernández del Riego, writer and politician (b. 1913)