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The Institución Libre de Enseñza (ILE) was founded by persecuted Spanish intellectuals, and catered to freethinkers in educational facilities removed from government control. The ILE would be important in forming ideologies that would lead to the creation of the Second Spanish Republic. [7]
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 ...
14 May to 28 October – Spain competes at the modern Olympic Games for the first time at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. 27 June – Representatives of the Kingdom of Spain and the French Third Republic sign the Treaty of Paris negotiating their colonial borders in Africa.
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 ...
Spanish Inquisition's auto-da-fé held in the Plaza Mayor, Madrid in 1680. Spanish society in the 17th century Habsburg Spain was extremely inegalitarian. The nobility, being wealthier than ordinary people, also had the privilege of being exempt from taxes. Spanish society associated social status with leisure and thus work was undignified for ...
Americans moved to Mexico in the largest numbers, but most to pursue ranching and farming themselves, and were the largest group on foreign nationals in Mexico. In 1900, there were only 2800 British citizens living in Mexico, 16,000 Spaniards, 4,000 French, and 2,600 Germans. [91]
The Economic Societies in the Spanish World (1763-1821). Syracuse: 1958. Tarragó, Rafael E. "Science and religion in the Spanish American Enlightenment." Catholic Social Science Review 10 (2005): 181-196. Viqueira Albán, Juan Pedro. Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico. Trans. Sonya Lippsett-Rivera and Sergio Rivera Ayala.
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