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1402
Lanzarote conquest (Señorio)
In May 1402, Béthencourt and La Salle set sail for Lanzarote, which they conquered and from where they made expeditions to El Hierro and Fuerteventura -
1402
Conquest of Fuerteventura (Señorio)
Béthencourt and La Salle set sail for Fuerteventura, which landed in 1402 and conquered the majoreros. -
Period: 1402 to 1450
Islas del Señorio
The Islas de Señorio, were conquered by lords or nobles (who subsequently sold their rights to the Crown of Castile) -
1405
Conquest of El Hierro (Señorio)
Béthencourt and La Salle set sail for expeditions to El Hierro. In 1405 they defeated the local Indians, the bimbaches. -
1450
Conquest of La Gomera (Fin del Señorio)
Years later, Béthencourt ceded his domains to his nephew Maciot and he, in turn, sold them to the count of Niebla and this one to the Andalusian families of Casas, Pedraza and García de Herrera. Precisely it was Díaz de Pedraza, in 1450, who conquered another of the islands, La Gomera -
1483
Conquest of Gran Canarias (Realengo)
The conquest of Gran Canaria was the first great objective of the Catholic Monarchs. Under the command of Juan Rejón, in 1478, the Castilian army met with the opposition of the natives, the Canaries, who were under the command of the guanartemes (thus their kings were known) Semidán and Doramas. The natives defeated the Castilians, and Rejón was replaced by Pedro de Vera who, yes, managed to kill Doramas and stop Semidán in 1483, the year of the final conquest of Gran Canaria. -
Period: 1483 to 1496
Islas del Realengo
La Gomera (Hernán Peraza), are considered as Realengo Islands (since their conquest was directly carried out by the Catholic Monarchs) were Gran Canaria, La Palma and Tenerife. -
1493
Conquest of La Palma (Realengo)
The eyes turned to La Palma whose conquest was entrusted to Alonso Fernández de Lugo. In exchange for 700,000 maravedíes, currency of the time, he promised to conquer the island in a year. In 1492 he landed on the island with 900 men and, despite finding resistance in the Auaritas, local Indians, and in his chief Tanausú, they finally achieved the conquest in a few months after capturing Tanausú and letting him die of hunger. -
1495
Conquest of Tenerife (Fin del Realengo)
They entered the Acentejo ravine, suffered an ambush and hundreds of soldiers lost their lives. They had to flee the island and take refuge in Gran Canaria. More than a thousand Guanches died in that battle, there was a second battle near Acentejo that determined the conquest in favor of the Castilians and with it the conquest of all the islands took
