In 1516, after a failed Navarrese-French attempt to expel the Spanish invaders from the kingdom, an attempt in which Francis ' brothers had taken part, the Spanish Castilian kingdom's Governor, Cardinal Cisneros, ordered family lands to be confiscated, the demolition of the outer wall, the gates and two towers of the family castle, the moat was filled, and the height of the keep was reduced in half.

A dejected procession, numbering some 4, 000 according to most of the sources, such as Hills or Jackson filed out of the Land Port with Queen Isabella's banner at their head, and led by the Spanish Governor, Diego de Salinas, the Spanish garrison, with their three brass cannon, the religious orders, the city council and all those inhabitants who did not wish to take the oath of allegiance to Charles III as asked by the terms of surrender.

* 1810 February – The Governor of Gibraltar removed the Spanish forts of San Felipe and Santa Barbara, located on the northern boundary of the neutral ground.

In 1801, Spanish Governor Don Juan Manuel de Salcedo took over from the Marquess of Casa Calvo, and restored the right to deposit goods from the United States.

** Spanish Royal Governor of the Philippines

In 1795, Governor Diego de Borica gave José Darío Argüello a Spanish land grant known as Rancho de las Pulgas.

Spanish rule over the island, which nominally began in 1498, ended when the final Spanish Royal Governor, Don José Maria Chacón surrendered the island to a British fleet of 18 warships under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby on 18 February 1797.

The treaty was drafted in English and Spanish by José Antonio Carrillo, approved by American Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Frémont and Mexican Governor Andrés Pico on January 13, 1847 at Campo de Cahuenga in what is now North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

* Cattle were introduced to Uruguay before its independence by Hernando Arias de Saveedra, the Spanish Governor of Buenos Aires in 1603.

* November 20 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands ( b. 1614 )

* March 19 – Ambrosio O ' Higgins, Marquis of Osorno, Spanish viceroy of Peru and Governor of Chile, father of Bernardo O ' Higgins

* February 18 – Spanish Governor José Maria Chacón peacefully surrenders the colony of Trinidad to a British naval force commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby.

* September 17 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida ( b. 1519 )

* February 12 – Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands ( b. 1553 )

* April 30 – Arauco War: Battle of Mataquito: Spanish forces of the Governor Francisco de Villagra launch a dawn surprise attack against the Mapuche headed by their toqui Lautaro in present-day Chile.

* November 30 – At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat ( just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase ).

* January 5 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands ( d. 1662 )

* July – Juan Bautista de Anza, Governor of the Spanish Province of New Mexico ( d. 1788 )

* February 15 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida ( d. 1574 )

In 2008, Democrats tapped Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to give a response in English ; Texas state Senator Leticia Van de Putte did the same in Spanish.

* December 25 – Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and execute Pedro de Valdivia, the first Royal Governor of Chile.

The Governor General of the French Caribbean colonies then subsequently mounted an attack on the island at his own expense and drove out the Spanish, but he was unable to establish a colony, and surrendered the title to the island to the Grand Master of the Order of Malta in 1653.

* 1951 – José Eduardo González Navas, Spanish politician

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

* 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 )

In 1876, the Spanish governor-general of the Philippines José Malcampo coined the term juramentado for the behavior ( from juramentar-" to take an oath "), surviving into modern Filipino languages as huramentado.

The 1830s saw a surge of the reformist movement, whose main leader was José Antonio Saco, standing out for his criticism of Spanish despotism and the slave trade.

* 1946 – José Carreras, Spanish tenor

* 1896 – Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila, Philippines.

The second chapter in Ecuador's struggle for emancipation from Spanish colonial rule began in Guayaquil, where independence was proclaimed in October 1820 by a local patriotic junta under the leadership of the poet José Joaquín de Olmedo.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828 ) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.

* 1959 – José María Cano, Spanish musician ( Mecano )

* 1833 – José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist ( d. 1906 )

" Spanish Falangist leader José Antonio Primo de Rivera said: " basically the Right stands for the maintenance of an economic structure, albeit an unjust one, while the Left stands for the attempt to subvert that economic structure, even though the subversion thereof would entail the destruction of much that was worthwhile ".

Spanish Falangist leader José Antonio Primo de Rivera did not believe that corporatism was effective and denounced it as a propaganda ploy, saying " this stuff about the corporative state is another piece of windbaggery ".

* 1963 – José Mari Bakero, Spanish footballer

Immediately after 21 April 2004 these troops were withdrawn by President Ricardo Maduro in the wake of a similar decision by Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

* 1702 – José de Nebra, Spanish composer ( d. 1768 )

José Victoriano ( Carmelo Carlos ) González-Pérez ( March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927 ), better known as Juan Gris (), was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life.

* 1943 – José Ángel Iribar, Spanish footballer

* 1916 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate ( d. 2002 )

* 1883 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher ( d. 1955 )

* 1937 – José Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect

* 1922 – José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor ( d. 2009 )

* 1930 – José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish writer

* 1811 – Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor