New Spain

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  • 1500

    Definition

    Definition
    The first of the four viceroyalties that Spain created to govern its conquered lands in the New World. It included the southwest United States,Mexico, Central America north of Panama,and some West Indian islands.Later,in 1565,the conquered Philippines were placed under the jurisdiction
    of New Spain
  • 1502

    New Spain

    The former Spanish possessions in the New World. At its greatest extent,New Spain comprised South America(except Brazil),Central America, Mexico,the Westt Indies,Florida,and much of the land
    west of the Mississippi River.
  • 1521

    Establishment(1521-1535)

    1492 Christopher Columbus discovers America
    1519-1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire(Cortés)
    Conquest of Tenochtitlan(=Mexico City)
    1524 Council of the Indie(administrative organ)
    1527 first mainland Audiencia(administration of New Spain)
    1535 Antonio de Mendoza becoms the first Viceroy of New Spain

  • Exploration and colonization (1519-1643)

    1540-1542 American Southwst (Vázquez de Coronado)
    1542-1543 Pacific Ocean(Rodriguez Cabrillo)
    1542-1543 East Indies(López de Villalobos
    1565 Phillipine Islands(Legazpi Urdaneta) are put under Spanisch jurisdiction,1571:Manila
    1565 Region of Florida,St-Augustine
    1568-1578 attempts to establish missions in the southern USA(Georgia,South Carolina)

  • Miliraty Conflicts 17th.18th century

    Conquest of parts of wst and south wst of present day USA
    1662 Santiago de Cuba
    1665 St.Augustine,Spanisg Florida
    1678 Campeche are sacked by the British
    1754 and 1763 Seven Years War
    Villasur Expedition
    War of Jenkin´s Ear
    1763 Treaty of Paris
    1774-1793 number of expeditions to the Pacific Northwest
    1776 Declaration of IUndependence USA

  • End of the Viceroalty 1806-1821

    1803 Thrid Treaty of San Ildefonso(Louisiana Purchase)
    1810 Grito de Dolores(call for independence)
    1819 Spanish Florida is ceded to France
    1821 Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire
    1823 Central America cedes peacefully