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1749 – Jardín Botánico (garden) founded (approximate date). 1778 – "Colonial monopoly of the Port of Cádiz with the American colonies is abolished." [7] 1787 – Population: 71,080. 1797 – June: British Assault on Cádiz; Spaniards win. [3] 1800 – Bombarded by Nelson. [3] 1810 February: French Siege of Cádiz begins. [3]
Lithograph of Mexico City's Zócalo, c. 1800. The square is officially known as the Plaza de la Constitución. Named during the tail-end of the colonial era for the Cadiz Constitution, not the later Constitution of Mexico. The Constitution was signed in March 1812, but it was not promulgated immediately throughout the empire.
Cádiz, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Western Europe, was founded by the Phoenicians as a trading post. [5] [6] In the 18th century, the Port in the Bay of Cádiz consolidated as the main harbour of mainland Spain, enjoying the virtual monopoly of trade with the Americas until 1778. It is also the site of the University of ...
Cádiz would go on to hold the distinction of being the only city in continental Europe to survive a siege by Napoleon: thirty-one months—from 5 February 1810 to 25 August 1812. [1] The combined efforts of regular and irregular forces throughout the peninsula prevented Napoleon's marshals from subduing the rebellious Spanish provinces, and ...
The Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España) entered a new era with the death of Charles II, the last Spanish Habsburg monarch, who died childless in 1700. The War of the Spanish Succession was fought between proponents of a Bourbon prince, Philip of Anjou, and the Austrian Habsburg claimant, Archduke Charles.
The siege of Cádiz was a siege of the large Spanish naval base of Cádiz [5] by a French army from 5 February 1810 to 24 August 1812 [6] during the Peninsular War.Following the occupation of Seville, Cádiz became the Spanish seat of power, [7] and was targeted by 70,000 French troops under the command of the Marshals Claude Victor and Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult for one of the most important ...
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The list shows large groupings associated with the dates of independence from decolonization (e.g., 41 current states gained control of sovereignty from the United Kingdom and France between 1956 and 1966) or dissolution of a political union (e.g., 18 current states gained control of sovereignty from the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia between 1990 ...