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Events on Sunday 14 July 1816 1
1750 – 1816Francisco de Miranda (1750-1816)Died 14 July 1816, aged 66Known as "El Precursor," the Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda fought in the American and French Revolutions before leading an early, unsuccessful attempt to liberate Venezuela from Spanish rule in 1806. Captured after the Spanish reconquest of Venezuela, he died in a prison cell in Cadiz, Spain.