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The death of Guillén Peraza in the attack on La Palma has been immortalized in a moving lament [citation needed]. After the death of her brother Inés and her husband Diego García de Herrera became the sole rulers of the islands until 1477 when they ceded La Gomera to their son Hernán Peraza the Younger and the rights to the conquest of La ...
Morocco recognises Spanish rule of Melilla. Spain cedes territories to Morocco. 600 dead or wounded: Dutch-Moroccan War (1775–1777) Alaouite Sultanate: Dutch Republic: Defeat. Release of all Dutch slaves. Freeing of the Dutch Republic from paying tributes and sending gifts to Morocco. Several ships destroyed and captured: Capture of the Rif ...
These events marked the beginning of the decline of the Marinid Sultanate and the start of the Portuguese Empire. The major battle, Battle of Alcácer Quibir, fought at Ksar-el-Kebir on 4 August 1578, was a catalyst for the 1580 Portuguese succession crisis. This resulted in a dynastic union between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of Spain.
1678 – French missionaries Jean La Salle and Louis Hennepin discover Niagara Falls; 1679 – Writing from Changzhou, newly arrived missionary Juan de Yrigoyen describes three Christian congregations flourishing in that Chinese city [164] 1680 – The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico with the killing of twenty-one Franciscan missionaries
Capture of La Mámora (1614) Siege of Mamora (1681) Siege of Larache (1689) Siege of Asilah (1690–1691) Siege of Oran (1693) Siege of Melilla (1694–1696) Siege of Melilla (1774–1775) Hispano-Moroccan War (1790–1791) Hispano-Moroccan War (1859–1860) First Melillan campaign (1893–1894) Second Melillan campaign (1909–1910) Kert ...
When King Juba, the Roman protégé, dispatched a contingent to re-open the dye production facility at Mogador (historical name of Essaouira, Morocco) in the early 1st century, [2] Juba's naval force was subsequently sent on an exploration of the Canary Islands, using Mogador as their mission base. Reconstruction of a Guanche settlement of Tenerife
Operation Pilgrim was a planned British operation to invade and occupy the Canary Islands during World War II. [2] The invasion was a contingency plan to be executed in the event of a known plan whereby Germany would support Spain in occupying Gibraltar, the Azores, the Canary Islands as well as the Cape Verde Islands (the German plan was known as Operation Felix).
Throughout the 19th century, Morocco suffered military defeats at the hands of Europeans powers, notably in the Franco-Moroccan War in 1844. In 1856 the Moroccan government signed the Anglo-Moroccan Treaty with the British which set the Moroccan customs duty at 10% and brought an end to royal monopolies.