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Spanish Roman Catholics

  • Catherine of AragonCatherine of Aragon was born at the Archbishop's Palace of Alcalá de Henares in the early hours of the 16th of December 1485.
  • Diego VelázquezOn the 6th of June 1599, a boy named Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was baptized at the church of St. Peter in Seville.
  • Charles V, Holy Roman EmperorThe year 1500 marked the arrival of Charles in the Prinsenhof of Ghent, a Flemish city within the Habsburg Netherlands. A poet at the court reported that…
  • Philip V of SpainPhilip was born on the 19th of December 1683 at the Palace of Versailles in France. He entered the world as the second son of Louis, Grand Dauphin, and his…
  • Salvador DalíOn the 11th of May 1904, a boy named Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres, Catalonia. He arrived at 8:45 am on the first floor of Carrer Monturiol 20.
  • Philip II of SpainOn the 21st of May 1527, a baby boy was born inside the Palacio de Pimentel in Valladolid. This child would become Philip II of Spain.
  • Juan Bautista de ToledoJuan Bautista de Toledo died on the 19th of May 1567 in Madrid. He was buried in the choir of the primitive Convento de Santo Tomás, Iglesia de la Santa Cruz.
  • Francisco FrancoOn the 4th of December 1892, Francisco Franco was born in the Calle Frutos Saavedra of Ferrol, Galicia. He entered the Infantry Academy in Toledo at age…
  • El GrecoDoménikos Theotokópoulos was born on the 1st of October 1541 in Candia, now known as Heraklion. This city served as the capital of Crete under Venetian rule…
  • Francisco GoyaOn the 30th of March 1746, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes entered a world of brick cottages and gilded altars in Fuendetodos, Aragon.
  • Inca Garcilaso de la VegaGómez Suárez de Figueroa arrived in the world on the 12th of April 1539 within the city of Cuzco. His mother was Palla Chimpu Ocllo, a princess descended…
  • Juan Luis VivesOn the 6th of March 1493, a boy named Juan Luis Vives was born in Valencia to a family that had converted from Judaism to Christianity decades before.
  • Juan de HerreraJuan de Herrera began his architectural career in 1561 with the Royal Palace of Aranjuez. He was born in 1530 and died on the 15th of January 1597.