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Recuerdos y bellezas de España (in Spanish). Madrid. 1865. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher . 1884 ed. Modesto Falcón (1868). Guia de Salamanca (in Spanish). Salamanca: Telesforo Oliva. Fernando Araújo (1884). La reina del Tórmes: guía histórico-descriptiva de la ciudad de Salamanca (in Spanish). Salamanca: Jacinto Hidalgo.
Year Date Event 1604: Anglo-Spanish War (1585): The war ends with the treaty of London, which is beneficial to both the Spanish and the English side. 1605: The Treaty of London (1604) was signed concluding the nineteen-year Anglo-Spanish War on peace terms. 1609: April 9: The Expulsion of the Moriscos was decreed. The Moriscos were descendants ...
15 October – The anarchist workers' union, Federation of Resistance Societies of the Spanish Region, is founded. 28 October – Sergeant Cesáreo García leads a failed insurrection in Badalona called the Carlist Sublevation.
1598: Spanish settlement in Northern New Mexico. 1600: By 1600 Spain and Portugal were still the only significant colonial powers. North of Mexico the only settlements were Saint Augustine and the isolated outpost in northern New Mexico. Exploration of the interior was largely abandoned after the 1540s.
In 1741, the Spanish repulsed a British attack on this fortress in present-day Colombia in the Battle of Cartagena de Indias. The 18th century was a century of prosperity for the overseas Spanish Empire as trade within grew steadily, particularly in the second half of the century, under the Bourbon reforms.
View of Toledo by El Greco, between 1596 and 1600. The Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro) was a period of flourishing arts and letters in the Spanish Empire (now Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America), coinciding with the political decline and fall of the Habsburgs. Arts flourished despite the decline of the empire in the ...
On 1 October 1936, General Francisco Franco was proclaimed "Leader of Spain" (Spanish: Caudillo de España) in the parts of Spain controlled by the Nationalists (nacionales) after the Spanish Civil War broke out. At the end of the war, on 1 April 1939, Franco took control of the whole of Spain, ending the Second Republic.
The Second Spanish Republic was the system of government in Spain between April 14, 1931 when Alfonso XIII left the country following a period of social unrest after the collapse of General Primo de Rivera's dictatorship a year earlier, and April 1, 1939 when the last of the Republican (republicanos) forces surrendered to the Nationalist ...