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1468
Concordia de los Toros de Guisando
The Toros de Guisando are a Vetton sculptural group that is located on the Guisando hill, next to the Cañada Real Leonesa Oriental, in the municipality of El Tiemblo, in the province of Ávila. -
Oct 19, 1469
Catholic Monarchs marriage
Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "pact by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a lifelong partnership and that is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and to the procreation and education". descent", and that "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament among baptized -
1474
Enrique IV dies
Enrique died in Madrid on December 11, 1474 at the age of 49 and it is said that it was the result of the bad digestive life he led, with large binges and binge eating, and with his own purges. -
1475
Acuerdo de Segovia
The Concord of Segovia was a treaty signed on January 15, 1475 in the Alcázar of Segovia, by Isabel I of Castile and her husband Fernando II of Aragón, King of Sicily and Prince of Gerona. This treaty established the role that Ferdinand should assume in the administration and government of the Castilian kingdom, and ensure the positions for the Castilians. -
1475
War of Castilian Succession beggins
The War of the Castilian Succession was the military conflict contested from 1475 to 1479 for the succession of the Crown of Castile fought between the supporters of Joanna 'la Beltraneja', reputed daughter of the late monarch Henry IV of Castile, and those of Henry's half-sister, Isabella -
1476
Battle of Toro
The battle of Toro was fought in the vicinity of that town (currently belonging to the province of Zamora, in Spain) on March 1, 1476, between the troops of the Catholic Monarchs on the one hand and those of Alfonso V of Portugal. and of Prince Juan of Portugal on the other, within the course of the war of Castilian succession and which ended with the victory of Crown Prince Juan of Portugal against the right wing of the Crown of Castile, -
1478
Spanish Inquisition estabilished
The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Spanish: Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition (Spanish: Inquisición española), was established in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. -
1479
Treaty of Alcaçovas
The Treaty of Alcáçovas (also known as Treaty or Peace of Alcáçovas-Toledo) was signed on 4 September 1479 between the Catholic Monarchs of Castile and Aragon on one side and Afonso V and his son, Prince John of Portugal, on the other side. -
1482
War of Granada
The Granada War was the set of military campaigns that took place between 1482 and 1492, undertaken by Queen Isabella I of Castile and her husband King Ferdinand II of Aragon within the Nasrid kingdom of Granada, culminating in the Capitulations of Granada of King Boabdil, who had oscillated between the alliance. -
Jan 1, 1492
Conquest of Granada
The impact of the Muslims on Spanish life and traditions had been rather different from that of the Jews. It was most evident, perhaps, in the position of women in southern Spain, who long remained semiveiled and in much greater seclusion than elsewhere in Christian Europe. It was evident also where Jewish influence was practically nonexistent, in the visual arts and especially in architecture. -
1492
Expulsion of Jews
The expulsion of the Jews from Spain was ordered in 1492, in Castile and Aragon, by the Catholic Monarchs through the Edict of Granada with the purpose, according to the decree, of preventing them from continuing to influence the New Christians so that they would Judaize. -
Dec 10, 1492
Discovery of America
Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering the Americas in 1492. Americans get a day off work on October 10 to celebrate Columbus Day. -
1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas,[note 1] signed in Tordesillas, Spain on 7 June 1494, and authenticated in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire (Crown of Castile), along a meridian 370 leagues[note 2] west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa. -
1496
Conquest of Canary Islands
The conquest of the island was completed in 1405 with the surrender of the native kings of the island. On an unknown date Gadifer abandoned the island and returned to France to defend his rights, but he would never return to the islands. -
1501
Forced conversion of Muslims
Islam. Islamic law prohibits forced conversion, following the Quranic principle that there is "no compulsion in religion" (Quran 2:256). However, episodes of forced conversions have occurred in the history of Islam. -
1504
Death of Isabel I
Isabella I of Castile was queen of Castile from 1474 to 1504, queen consort of Sicily from 1469 and of Aragon from 1479, for her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon. She also served as Lady of Vizcaya. -
1505
Laws of Toro
The Laws of Toro (1505), which extended the right to entail family estates on the eldest child, further safeguarded the stability of noble property. -
1505
Expansion of Castilla in Northen Africa
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1506
Felipe I died and Fernando II regent
Ferdinand II (Aragonese: Ferrando; Catalan: Ferran; Basque: Errando; Spanish: Fernando; 10 March 1452 – 23 January 1516), also called Ferdinand the Catholic (Spanish: el Católico), was King of Aragon and Sardinia from 1479, King of Sicily from 1469, King of Naples (as Ferdinand III) from 1504 and King of Navarre (as Ferdinand I) from 1512 until his death in 1516. -
1515
Conquest of Navarra
The conquest of Navarre was the process of annexation of the Kingdom of Navarre by the Kingdom of Castile, which began in the twelfth century and ended in the sixteenth. -
1516
Fernando II death
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1516
Carlos I became king
Charles V[b][c] (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain (Castile and Aragon) from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555. As he was head of the rising House of Habsburg during the first half of the 16th century, his dominions in Europe included the Holy Roman Empire.