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  • Period: Nov 6, 1402 to Nov 6, 1580

    spain

  • Period: Nov 9, 1444 to

    spain

  • Nov 12, 1508

    Portuguese Empire

    Portuguese Empire
    From the time beginning with the incorporation of the Portuguese Empire in 1580 (lost in 1640) until the loss of its American colonies in the 19th century, Spain maintained the largest empire in the world even though it suffered fluctuating military and economic fortunes from the 1640s.
  • Nov 12, 1516

    Spanish Kingdoms under the Habsburgs

    Spanish Kingdoms under the Habsburgs
    Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries reached its height and declined under the Habsburgs.
  • Nov 12, 1520

    Guanajuato

    Guanajuato
    In the 1520s, large-scale extraction of silver from the rich deposits of Mexico's Guanajuato began to be greatly augmented by the silver mines in Mexico's Zacatecas and Bolivia's Potosí from 1546
  • Nov 12, 1520

    diseases

    diseases
    diseases such as smallpox and measles that arrived with the colonizers devastated the native populations, especially in the densely populated regions of the Aztec, Maya and Inca civilizations, and this reduced the economic potential of conquered areas.
  • Dec 11, 1546

    Columbus Taking Possession

    Columbus Taking Possession
    In the 1520s, large-scale extraction of silver from the rich deposits of Mexico's Guanajuato began to be greatly augmented by the silver mines in Mexico's Zacatecas and Bolivia's Potosí from 1546.
  • Nov 16, 1563

    Philip ll

    Philip ll
    Philip was born in Valladolid, the son of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, and his consort, Isabella of Portugal. He was described by the Venetian ambassador Paolo Fagolo in 1563
  • Nov 12, 1580

    Charles V

    Charles V
    Charles was the eldest son of Philip the Handsome and Joanna the Mad. His grandmother was Isabella I of Castile As the heir of three of Europe's leading dynasties—the House of Habsburg of the Habsburg Monarchy; the House of Valois-Burgundy of the Burgundian Netherlands; and the House of Trastámara of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon

  • Philip iv

    Philip iv
    Philip IV and King of Aragon and Portugal as Philip III (Portuguese: Filipe III). He ascended the thrones in 1621 and reigned in Spain until his death and in Portugal until 1640.

  • Philip's developmentally

    Philip's developmentally
    In the reign of Philip's developmentally disabled son and successor Charles II (1665–1700), Spain was essentially left leaderless and was gradually being reduced to a second-rank power.

  • sapin defeat

    sapin defeat
    The Napoleonic Wars changed Spanish military history dramatically; defeated at home, the Peninsular War saw the development of guerrilla warfare against the occupying French forces. The collapse of central Spanish authority resulted in successful wars of independence amongst Spain's American colonies, drastically reducing the size of her empire, and in turn led to a sequence of civil wars in Spain itself, many fought by frustrated veterans of the French and colonial campaigns. Attempts to reasse