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Hace 6 días · The 18th century was a century of prosperity for the overseas Spanish Empire as trade within grew steadily, particularly in the second half of the century, under the Bourbon reforms. Spain's victory in the Battle of Cartagena de Indias against a British expedition in the Caribbean port of Cartagena de Indias helped Spain secure its ...
Hace 3 días · Spain's world empire reached its greatest territorial extent in the late 18th century but it was under the Habsburg dynasty in the 16th and 17th centuries it reached the peak of its power and declined.
Hace 2 días · The fall of the Aztec Empire was the key event in the formation of the Spanish Empire overseas, with New Spain, which later became Mexico. Timeline. 1428 – Creation of the Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan; 1492–93 – Columbus reaches the Caribbean; start of permanent Spanish settlements
Hace 1 día · Most studies of the Hispanic monarchy in the 18th century consider the creation of the superintendencias of the royal Exchequer, separate from the viceroys of the Indies, to be a reform aimed at improving the administration of colonial revenues. Moreover, this reform was part of the project to introduce the system of intendencias in America.
Hace 1 día · With the steady erosion of its continental and overseas empire throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, however, Spain was all but forgotten in world affairs, save for the three years that the ideologically charged Spanish Civil War (1936–39) put the country at the centre of the world’s stage, only to become ever more insular and ...
Hace 1 día · Spanish Identity in the Age of Nations. Jose Álvarez-Junco. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780719075797; 432pp.; Price: £90.00. Reviewer: Dr Phillip Williams. Comisión Española de Historia Militar. Citation: Dr Phillip Williams, review of Spanish Identity in the Age of Nations, (review no. 1260)
Hace 4 días · Part I (May 25, 2024) (Show more) Eighty Years’ War, (1568–1648), the war of Netherlands independence from Spain, which led to the separation of the northern and southern Netherlands and to the formation of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (the Dutch Republic).
