Spanish History

Highlights of the History of Spain

Surrender at Grenada
Boadbil (Mohammad XII), the last Nasrid sultan of Granada, surrenders the city to the Spanish rulers, Queen Isabel I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon.
Painting by Francisco Pradilla Ortiz.
Public domain image from Wikipedia.

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Some Years listed below are approximate.

YearTitleAuthor(s)
711Saracens Invade SpainAhmed Ibn Mahomet Al-Makkari
772-814CharlemagneFrançois P.G. Guizot
1000ChivalryLéon Gautier
1086-1214Islamic Power Declines in SpainSamuel A. Dunham
1348The Black Death Reaches EuropeJ. F. C. Hecker| |Giovanni Boccaccio
1478Spanish Inquisition EstablishedWilliam H. Rule| |James Balmes
1490Spain Conquers GrenadaWashington Irving
1492Columbus Discovers AmericaChristopher Columbus| |Ferdinand Columbus
1498Columbus Discovers South AmericaClements Robert Markham
1499America’s Namesake’s Second VoyageAmerigo Vespucci
1513Balboa Discovers the PacificManuel Jose Quintana
1517Slavery Legalized in AmericasSir Arthur Helps
1521Cortes Captures the Aztec CapitalWilliam H. Prescott
1522Magellan’s Voyage Around the WorldJoan Bautista| |Antonio Pigafetta
1532Pizarro Conquers the Incan EmpireHernando Pizarro| |William H. Prescott
1535Mendoza Settles Buenos AiresRobert Southey
1541De Soto Discovers The MississippiJohn S. C. Abbott
1555The Peace of Augsburg and the Abdication of Charles VWilliam Robertson
1565Spain’s First Settlements in FloridaGeorge R. Fairbanks
1566The Netherlands Revolts Against SpainFriedrich Von Schiller
YearTitleAuthor(s)
1571The Battle of Lepanto and the Destruction of the Turkish NavySir William Stirling-Maxwell
1573From the Heroic Years of the DutchThomas Henry Dyer
1584William of Orange Murdered; Netherlands DividesJohn Lothrop Motley
1587Drake Captures Cartegena; Raids CadizJulian Corbett
1588Defeat of the Spanish ArmadaSir Edward Creasy
1671Buccaneers Sack PanamaJohann W. Von Archenholz
1782The Siege of GibraltarFrederick Sayer
1805The Battle of TrafalgarRobert Southey
1808-13Wellington’s Peninsular CampaignJohn Richard Green
1809Bolivar and South American IndependenceAlfred Deberle
1810-21Mexican IndependenceJoel R. Poinsett
1814The Congress of Vienna 1814-15Henry M. Stephens
1820Spanish Demand ConstitutionCharles A. Fyffe
1833First Carlist RevoltCharles A. Fyffe
1868Spanish RevolutionWilliam I Knapp
1898The Cuban Campaign of the Spanish-American WarAndrew S. Draper| |Theodore Roosevelt| |Pascual
1898The Battle of Manila BayHubert Howe Bancroft
1909Spanish Civil War PreludeWilliam Archer| |Perceval Gibbon
1936-39The Spanish Civil WarVideos

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