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The Treaty of Zaragoza did not modify or clarify the line of demarcation provided by the Treaty of Tordesillas, nor did it validate Spain's claim to equal hemispheres (180° each), so the two lines divided the earth into unequal hemispheres. Portugal's portion was roughly 191° whereas Spain's portion was roughly 169°.
Treaty between England and the Holy Roman Empire during the Italian War of 1521–1526 1522 Treaty of Windsor: Between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Henry VIII of England; its main clause was the invasion of France. 1524 Treaty of Malmö: Ends the Swedish War of Liberation. Treaty of Tordesillas: Treaty between the Lord of Monaco and ...
The Treaty of Tordesillas is signed on June 7, 1494. [58] This treaty signed by the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire established a new demarcation meridian farther west than the meridian established by the papal bull Inter Caetera. This gave Portugal a much greater portion of Brazil but kept the rest of the Americas under Spanish purview.
Casas del Tratado de Tordesillas. Casas del Tratado de Tordesillas (Houses of Treaty of Tordesillas in English) are two united palaces in Tordesillas, Spain.The negotiations that gave rise to the Treaty of Tordesillas took place there, through which Spain and Portugal shared the New World, giving rise to Ibero-America.
Based on the Treaty of Tordesillas, the Portuguese Crown, under the kings Manuel I, João III and Sebastão, also claimed territorial rights in North America (reached by John Cabot in 1497 and 1498). To that end, in 1499 and 1500, João Fernandes Lavrador explored Greenland and the north Atlantic coast of Canada, which accounts for the ...
The Tordesillas Meridian divided South America into two parts, leaving a large chunk of land to be exploited by the Spaniards. The Treaty of Tordesillas has been called the earliest document in Brazilian history, [10] since it determined that part of South America would be settled by Portugal instead of Spain. The Treaty of Tordesillas was an ...
The Viceroyalty of Peru (Spanish: Virreinato del Perú), officially known as the Kingdom of Peru (Spanish: Reino del Perú), was a Spanish imperial provincial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained modern-day Peru and most of the Spanish Empire in South America, governed from the capital of Lima.
The first captaincies were drawn in strips parallel to the equator, commencing at the Atlantic coast and terminating in the west at the Tordesillas Line (where Spanish territory began). They were established by King John III of Portugal, starting with Pernambuco by the royal "Golden Letter" (Carto Dourado) on 24 September 1534. [9]