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November 27

Saint’s Day for José de Calasanz, Máximo, Basileo, Virgilio, and Valeriano.

King Alfonso X11 - Wikipedia

1810 - The first regulation of the Cortes of Cadiz is created.
1871 - Spanish colonial authorities execute eight medical students in La Habana who were accused of defiling the grave of the Spanish journalist, Gonzalo Castañón. The youngest was just 16 years old.
1885 - Sagasta sworn in as president of the Board at the Regent Queen Maria Cristina of Habsburg-Lorraine.
1907 - In Madrid, the Spanish congress approved a law to reconstruct the Armada.
1912 - A treaty is signed between Spain and France, creating a Spanish protectorate in Northern Morocco.
1931 - Niceto Alcalá Zamora was elected member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Language.
1983: -an Avianca Boeing 747 crashes while coming in to land at Madrid Barajas. It came down in Mejorada del Campo, killing 181 passengers. Only 11 people survived.
1984 - the Brussels Declaration is signed between Spain and Britain, preparing the way for talks on sovereignty of Gibraltar and the lifting of Spanish restrictions.

Births
Fernando I of Aragón - https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/

1380 - Fernando I of Aragón, King of Aragón.
1602 - Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Italian Baroque music composer, singer and Benedictine nun, born in Milan (d. 1677)
1711 - Antonio Gómez de la Torre, bishop (d. 1779)
1745 - Rafael de Sobremonte, noble soldier(d. 1827)
1755 - Gregorio Ceruelo la Fuente, priest (d. 1836)
1801 - José María Marchessi y Oleaga, soldier (d. 1882)
1822 - José Selgas Carrasco, writer and journalist.
1841 - Lagartijo (Rafael Molina Sánchez) bullfighter.
1846 - Ángel Rubio, composer and orchestra conductor (d. 1906)
1860 - Facundo Perezagua, politician and unionist (d. 1935)
1879 - Alberto Colunga Cueto, priest (d. 1962)
1880 - Primitivo Hernández Sampelayo, engineer (d. 1959)
1889 - Ramón Prieto Bances, politician and jurist (d. 1972)
1891 - Pedro Salinas Serrano, writer of the Generation of '27 known for his poetry and essays.
1897 - Antonia Herrero, actress (d. 1978)
1898 - José María Gil Robles, politician.
1915 - Luis Castellanos, painter (d. 1946)
1918 - Francisco Gil de Sola Caballero, marine (d. 2009)
1920 - Josep Maria Andreu, Catalan poet.
1930 - José Hernández Quero, painter.
1930 - Pedro Machado de Castro, Cuban-Spanish musician
1931 - Juan Guinjoan, Catalan composer and pianist, born in  Riudoms (d. 2019)
1942 - The top women’s shoe designer, Manolo Blahnik, was born in Santa Cruz de la Palma.
1945 - Felipe Campuzano, Pianist and composer.
1953 - Jon Imanol Azua, Basque politician.
1953 - Carmen Martínez Ten, doctor and politician.
1954 - Albert Forner, actor
1955 - Andrés Montes journalist (d. 2009)
1959 - Jaume Vilamajó, cyclist.
1962 - Carlos Lozano, actor, model and television presenter.
1963 - Toñín Llorente, basketball player.
1963 - Micky Molina actor in Madrid.
1969 - Natalia Millán, actress
1972 - Àlex Brendemühl, actor.
1978 - Manu Fullola, actor .
1978 - Iván Gutiérrez, cyclist.
1978 - Unax Ugalde, actor.
1979 - Manuel Lombo, flamenco singer songwriter.
1983 - Miguel Ángel Perera, bullfighter.
1986 - Xavi Torres, footballer
1987 - Andoni Erburu, actor.


Deaths
1252 - Blanche of Castile (b. 1188)
1474 - Guillaume Dufay, composer and french-flamenco musician.
1607 - Juan de Castellanos, poet, soldier and Catholic priest who lived in the New Kingdom of Granada. As one of the early Spanish chroniclers he has contributed to the knowledge of the indigenous  peoples of the Americas, mainly the Muisca (b. 1522)
Francisco Pacheco - https://dbe.rah.es/

1644 - Francisco Pacheco del Río, painter, best known as the teacher and father-in-law of Diego Velázquez and Alonzo Cano, and for his textbook on painting, entitled Art of Painting, that is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain (b, 1564 in Sanlúcar de Barrameda)
1760 - Juan Antonio de Mendoza, soldier.(b. 1667)
1762 - Pedro Miguel of the Cave and Guzmán, soldier and aristocrat (b. 1712)
1763 - Isabel de Borbón-Parma, nobleman (b. 1741).
1811 - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, writer (b. 1744).
1831 - Juan Esteban Lozano de Torres, politician (b. 1779).
1857 - Juan Gualberto González Bravo, musician writer and politician (b. 1777)
1886 - Juan de la Rosa González, writer (b. 1820)
1945 - José María Sert i Badia was a muralist, the son of an affluent textile industry family, and friend of Salvador Dali. He was particularly known for his grisaille style, often in gold and black (b. 1874 in Barcelona)
1849 - Joaquín Oliet Cruella, painter (b. 1775)
1967 - José Miranda González, historian (b. 1903)
1971 - Francisco Javier Sánchez Cantón, art historian, who from 1960 to 1968 was Director of the Museo del Prado (b. 1891 in Pontevedra)
1972 - Juan Segura de Lago, architect (b. 1911)
1983 - Federico Carlos Sainz de Robles y Correa, writer.
1983 - Rosa Sabater, pianist (b. 1929)
1988 - Carmen Carbonell, actress (b. 1900)
1989 - Carlos Arias Navarro, lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1908)
1998 - Gloria Fuertes, poet and author of children's literature (b. 1917)
2002 - Migueli, footballer (b. 1942)
2007 - Paul Loustau, actor (b. 1978)
2009 - José Viñals, writer (b. 1930)