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The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery.
- Birth of The Kingdom of Spain
- The Spanish Empire Expands
- Golden Age of Spain
- Decline and Fall of The Spanish Empire
The story of the Spanish Empire begins in the early 15th century. This was the last century of the Reconquista (Re-conquest), the centuries-old campaign by Christian forces to retake the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslim Arabs, who had conquered it in the 8th century. By the early 15th century, Muslim control of the Iberian Peninsula had been reduc...
By the time Spain became a united kingdom, it already controlled territory outside of the Iberian Peninsula, including the Canary Islands, Sardinia, and Sicily. In 1492, the Spaniards conquered Granada, thus destroying the last remaining Muslim outpost on the Iberian Peninsula. Coincidentally, this was the same year that Christopher Columbusset sai...
When King Charles I ascended the Spanish throne, he was able to rule about a quarter of Europe, not by conquest, but rather by inheritance because of the marital alliances established by the Reyes Catolicos (Catholic Kings) prior to his rule. He inherited Spain’s colonial possessions as well as the crowns of the Holy Roman Empire, the Low Countries...
From the 1640s onward, Spain faced a number of challenges. Rebellions against Spanish rule surfaced in Portugal, southern Italy, and Catalonia. The union with Portugal ended, though the Spaniards did manage to hang on to southern Italy and Catalonia. Spain did, however, lose territory in Europe over the course of the 17th century. In addition, the ...
The Spanish Empire became the foremost global power, dominating the oceans as well as European battlefields. Spain enjoyed a cultural golden age in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when silver and gold from American mines increasingly financed a long series of European and North African wars.
8 de nov. de 2021 · The Spanish Main refers, in its widest sense, to the Spanish Empire in the Americas from Florida in the north to the northern coast of Brazil in the south, including the Caribbean. The term was initially more limited and referred only to the mainland Spanish territories in northern South America.
- Mark Cartwright
- The term 'Spanish Main' refers to the mainland territories of the Spanish Empire in northern South America. It can have a wider meaning and refer t...
- The treasure of the Spanish Main refers to the gold, silver, gems, and other valuable goods the Spanish extracted from the Americas to ship back to...
- 'Main' refers to the mainland possessions of the Spanish Empire in parts of the Americas and was used to distinguish these from Spanish-controlled...
HISTORY OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE. Since the fall of Rome, there has been no empire based in Europe which extends outside the continent. This situation changes abruptly in the 16th century, when Spain and Portugal become the pioneers in a new era of colonization. The Iberian peninsula is well poised at the time for this leap into the unknown.
13 de jun. de 2022 · The apparatus of colonial government in the Spanish Empire consisted of multiple levels, starting with the monarchy and Council of the Indies at the top and moving down to the viceroy, audiencias, mayors, and local councils.
This is a timeline of Spanish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Spain and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Spain.
