During the eighteenth century, the figure of the priest, mathematician and botanist José Celestino Mutis ( 1732 – 1808 ), was delegated by the Viceroy Antonio Caballero y Gongora to conduct an inventory of the nature of the Nueva Granada, which became known as the Botanical Expedition, which classified plants, wildlife and founded the first astronomical observatory in the city of Santa Fé de Bogotá.

Among the officers who entered the city that day were Pedro Celestino Negrete, Vicente Guerrero, Nicolás Bravo, Anastasio Bustamante, Melchor Múzquiz, José Joaquín de Herrera, Manuel Mier y Terán, Luis Quintanar, Miguel Barragán, Vicente Filisola, Antonio López de Santa Anna and Guadalupe Victoria.

At the celebration of the elevation of Lipa to a city in January 1888, José Rizal was invited by Dr. Jose Lozada, Catalino Dimayuga and the brothers Celestino and Simeon Luz but Rizal responded only with his Hymno Al Trabajo which he dedicated to the zeal and industry of the Lipeños.

José Celestino López ( born November 24, 1983 ) is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball ( MLB ).

es: José Celestino López

* José López ( baseball ) ( middle name Celestino ) ( born 1983 ), Venezuelan baseball player

Also he was befriended by people with well-known names as Francisco Pérez Bayer, Jose Clavijo y Fajardo, Benito Bails, Celestino Mutis, Jose Agustín de Llano y de la Cuadra ( 1722 – 94 ), Spanish Embassador in Vienna since 1786 under Emperor Joseph II, a nephew of First Secretary of State of Spain ( 1736 – 46 ), Sebastián de la Cuadra, 1st Marquis of Villarías, the numerous members of the family associated to politician and translator Juan de Iriarte ( 1701 – 71 ), Bernardino del Campo, the Ambassador José Nicolás de Azara, and Juan Chindulza.

The municipality was founded in 1759 by the Marquis of Pombal, as a reward granted by king José I to his minister for having reconstructed downtown Lisbon after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, it was at the county that he built a magnificent manor-house, the Palace of the Counts of Oeiras, which still exhibits grand stone staircases, statues, splendid tiles and beautiful gardens with cascades and an aqueduct with arches.

Fausto de Elhuyar ( 11 October 1755 – 6 February 1833 ) was a Spanish chemist, and the joint discoverer of tungsten with his brother Juan José Elhuyar in 1783.

The Descripção is the artist's detailed comments on the style and execution of his finest work, the equestrian statue of D. José I, erected in 1775 as part of the rebuilding of central Lisbon after the disastrous earthquake of 1755.

It takes its name from Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquess of Pombal, the Prime Minister to Joseph I of Portugal from 1750 to 1777 and key figure of the Enlightenment in Portugal, who took the lead in ordering the rebuilding of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake.

* 1848 – José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet ( d. 1880 )

* 1827 – José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.

* 1974 – José Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player

* 1916 – José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer ( d. 1978 )

* 1947 – José Cruz, Puerto Rican baseball player

* 1866 – José de Diego, Puerto Rican statesman and journalist ( d. 1918 )

* 1912 – U. S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U. S .- backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.

* 1958 – José Luis Clerc, Argentine tennis player

* 1991 – José Eduardo de Araújo, Brazilian footballer

* 1883 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese politician, 9th President of Portugal ( d. 1965 )

* 1956 – José Rubén Zamora, Guatemalan journalist

* 1940 – José van Dam, Belgian opera singer

* 1951 – José Eduardo González Navas, Spanish politician

* 1976 – José Revueltas, Mexican writer ( b. 1914 )

* 1914 – José Silva, American parapsychologist ( d. 1999 )

* 1818 – In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement – led by Bernardo O ' Higgins and José de San Martín – win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2, 000 Spaniards and 1, 000 Chilean patriots dead.

* 1832 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1916 )

* 1813 – Instituto Nacional, is founded by the Chilean patriot José Miguel Carrera.

* 1906 – Marie José of Belgium ( d. 2001 )

* 1960 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish politician, 5th Prime Minister of Spain

* 1903 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer, nobleman, and politician, founder of the Falange ( d. 1936 )

* 1930 – José Sarney, Brazilian lawyer, writer, and politician, President of Brazil

* 2004 – José Giovanni, French-Swiss writer and director ( b. 1923 )

The Battle of Cape St Vincent ( 14 February 1797 ) was one of the opening battles of The Anglo-Spanish War ( 1796 – 1808 ) where a British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeated a larger Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal.

During the Peninsular War, Badajoz was unsuccessfully attacked by the French in 1808 and 1809 ; but on March 10, 1811, the Spanish commander, José Imaz, was bribed into surrendering to a French force under Marshal Soult.

* José Moñino, conde de Floridablanca ( 1728 – 1808 ), statesman, minister of King Charles III of Spain

Joseph-Napoleon Bonaparte ( 7 January 1768 – 28 July 1844 ) was the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of Naples and Sicily ( 1806 – 1808 ), and later King of Spain ( 1808 – 1813, as José I ).

Castro Street was named for José Castro ( 1808 – 1860 ), a Californio leader of Mexican opposition to U. S. rule in California in the 19th century, and alcalde of Alta California from 1835 to 1836.

Dona Maria I, Queen of Portugal ; José Leandro de Carvalho, 1808.

As a teenager, Mariano, his nephew Juan Bautista Alvarado ( 1809 – 1882 ), and José Castro ( 1808 – 1860 ) received special instruction from Governor Pablo Vicente de Solá.

José Ignacio Javier Oriol Encarnación de Espronceda y Delgado ( 25 March 1808 — 23 May 1842 ) was a Romantic Spanish poet.

José Moñino y Redondo ( es: José Moñino y Redondo, conde de Floridablanca ) ( October 21, 1728 – December 30, 1808 ), Spanish statesman.

José María Linares Lizarazu ( July 10, 1808 – 1861 ) was born in Tical, Potosí, on a farm.

* José Antonio Saravia, Spanish born Russian General, ( 1785-Military Napoleonic actions from 1808 to 1812 in Europe-At the Service of the Tsars 1812-Russian General 1843 under Tsar Nikolai I-General Inspector of the Russian Military Academies-1871 ), married and lived here.

* José Antonio Castro ( 1808 – 1860 ), 19th century Mexican governor of Alta California

José María Mariano Segundo de Urvina y Viteri ( b. 19 March 1808, d. 4 September 1891 ) was President of Ecuador from 13 July 1851 to 16 October 1856.