* 1533 – Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet ( d. 1595 )

Colombia was discovered by Europeans when the first expedition of Alonso de Ojeda arrived at the Cabo de la Vela in 1499.

About September, however, a spurious Part Two, entitled Second Volume of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha: by the Licenciado ( doctorate ) Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, of Tordesillas, was published in Tarragona by an unidentified Aragonese who was an admirer of Lope de Vega, rival of Cervantes.

* Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda – author of a spurious sequel to Don Quixote, which in turn is referenced in the actual sequel

The army, led by Alonso de Alvarado, was defeated during the Battle of Abancay on July 12, 1537.

** La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga ( 1569 – 1589 )

* 1309-While the King Ferdinand IV of Castile laid siege on Algeciras, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán ( known to the Spanish records as Guzmán el Bueno ) was sent to capture the town.

Finally, the initiative of Juan Alonso de Guzmán, 1st Duke of Medina Sidonia, succeeded and he took possession of the town as personal property.

Such composers as Tomás Luis de Victoria, Luis de Milán and Alonso Lobo helped to shape Renaissance music and the styles of counterpoint and polychoral music, and their influence lasted far into the Baroque period.

One of his principal captains, Alonso de Cáceres, was responsible for quelling the indigenous revolt, led by the cacique Lempira in 1537 and 1538.

Native Mapuche s playing palín shown in Histórica Relación del Reino de Chile by Alonso de Ovalle.

* Rollos de Pianola ( Obras de Albéniz, Granados, Turina, Ocón, Chapí, Alonso y Otros ) ( Almaviva, DS – 0141 )

Islands in the archipelago were first explored by Europeans in the 1520s, with Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar sighting an atoll in August 1526.

Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar was the first European to see the islands in 1526, commanding the ship Santa Maria de la Victoria, the only surviving vessel of the Loaísa Expedition.

* 1499 – Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cadiz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela.

In 1528, Isabel de Moctezuma, an heir of Moctezuma II, was married to Alonso de Grado, a Spanish Conquistador.

Spanish-sponsored explorers discovered both the leeward ( Alonso de Ojeda, 1499 ) and windward ( Christopher Columbus, 1493 ) island groups, but Spain founded settlements only in the leeward islands.

* 1548 – The city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz ( Our Lady of Peace ) is founded by Alonso de Mendoza by appointment of the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V.

There are also paintings at the museum by Luis Tristan, Francisco de Zurbaran, Alonso Cano, Jose de Ribera and Goya.

It displays masterworks by Titian, Tintoretto, El Greco, Velázquez, Roger van der Weyden, Paolo Veronese, Alonso Cano, José de Ribera, Claudio Coello and others.

Highly important works are also to be seen by the other figures of the Spanish Golden Age: Ribera, Murillo, Zurbarán and Alonso Cano.

The 17th-century drawings include magnificent sheets by Alonso Cano, Ribera, Valdés Leal, Ribalta, Vicente Carducho, Eugenio Cajés, Pereda, Claudio Coello and Palomino.

His first works were influenced by Zurbarán, Jusepe de Ribera and Alonso Cano, and he shared their strongly realist approach.

The Chapel of the Trinity has a marvelous retablo with paintings by El Greco, José Ribera, Alonso Cano, and the Spanoleto.

In 1601 Alonso de Ribera built Fort Talcahueno to defend remaining Spanish settlements near Concepción.

Gasca convinced Pedro de Valdivia, explorer of Chile, Alonso de Alvarado another searcher for El Dorado, and others that if he were unsuccessful, a royal fleet of 40 ships and 15, 000 men was preparing to sail from Seville in June.

* Alonso de Sotomayor ( Chile 1583 – 1592, Panamá 1592 – 1604 )

Vitacura is see of ECLAC headquarters, home to the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) headquarters in Chile, and home to Santiago's most exclusive shopping street, Avenida Alonso de Córdova.

La Araucana is an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile, by Alonso de Ercilla ; it is also known in English as The Araucaniad.

* Alonso de Ercilla wrote the epic poem, La Araucana, about the Spanish conquest of Chile.

She reached Spanish America and enlisted as a soldier in Chile under the name Alonso Díaz Ramírez de Guzmán.

Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo in his History of All the Things that Have happened in the Kingdom of Chile mentions Colocolo in 1561 as a principal leader in Arauco and is said to be a friend until death to the Spanish.

* Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo, Historia de Todas las Cosas que han Acaecido en el Reino de Chile y de los que lo han gobernado ( 1536-1575 ) ( History of All the Things that Have happened in the Kingdom of Chile and of they that have governed it ( 1536-1575 )), Edición digital a partir de Crónicas del Reino de Chile, Madrid, Atlas, 1960, pp. 75 – 224, ( on line in Spanish )

1520 ), Johannes Wier ( 1515 – 1588 ), Reginald Scot ( 1538 – 1599 ), Cornelius Loos ( 1546 – 1595 ), Anton Praetorius ( 1560 – 1613 ), Alonso Salazar y Frías ( 1564 – 1636 ), Friedrich Spee ( 1591 – 1635 ), and Balthasar Bekker ( 1634 – 1698 ).

Father Alonso Ruiz of Arequipa predicted a " hit from heaven " in 1599, at which time activity may have begun at the volcano.

* 1580 – Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer

The Borgia family originally came from the Kingdom of Valencia, and rose to prominence during the mid-15th century ; Cesare's great-uncle Alonso Borgia ( 1378 – 1458 ), bishop of Valencia, was elected Pope Callixtus III in 1455.

* 1917 – Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director and producer ( d. 2007 )

* 1981 – Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer

* 1962 – Alonso Lujambio, Mexican politician ( d. 2012 )

* 1550 – Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish commander ( d. 1615 )

The zarzuela continued to flourish in the 1930s, thanks to composers of the stature of Pablo Sorozábal – who reinvigorated it as a vehicle for socio-political comment – Federico Moreno Torroba, and Francisco Alonso.

* July – Alonso Fajardo de Entenza, governor of the Philippines

* November 29 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet ( b. 1533 )

* April 5 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer ( b. 1555 )

* November 29 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque nobleman ( b. 1533 )

* September 10 – Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish Armada ( d. 1615 )

* August 8 – Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter ( b. c. 1531 )

* July 10 – Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, novelist and dramatist ( b. c. 1580 )

* July 30 – Alonso de Sotomayor petitions the viceroy of Peru for more troops to help resist attacks by Indians and English pirates.

Over time, the bishopric continued to commission new architectural projects of importance, such as the redesign of the main facade, undertaken in 1664 by Alonso Cano ( 1601 – 1667 ) to introduce Baroque elements.

* August 7 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet ( d. 1595 )

* August 21 – Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar becomes the first European to sight the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.