Spain Timeline

By Ashton Bruno2100
  • Period: 1580 to

    Spain Timeline

  • Aug 8, 1580

    The Spanish Armada was defeated in the English Channel.

    Off the coast of Grave lines, France, Spain's so-called “Invincible Armada” is defeated by an English naval force under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake.

  • Thirty Years' War: The war began.

    The war lasted from 1618 to 1648, starting as a battle among the Catholic and Protestant states that formed the Holy Roman Empire. However, as the Thirty Years' War evolved, it became less about religion and more about which group would ultimately govern Europe.

  • The Peace of the Pyrenees was signed.

    Peace of the Pyrenees. Peace of the Pyrenees, also called Treaty Of The Pyrenees, (Nov. 7, 1659), peace treaty between Louis XIV of France and Philip IV of Spain that ended the Franco-Spanish War of 1648–59. It is often taken to mark the beginning of French hegemony in Europe.

  • Seven Years' War: Spain declared war on Great Britain.

    French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, 1754-1763. The French and Indian War was the North American conflict that was part of a larger imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

  • Spain during this time opened up the slave trade to Havana.

    They transported slaves by ship to Havana

  • Peninsular War: The war began.

    On February 16, 1808, under the pretext of sending reinforcements to the French army occupying Portugal, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain. Thus began the Peninsular War, an important phase of the Napoleonic Wars that was fought between France and much of Europe between 1792 and 1815.

  • The Spanish Constitution of 1812 was issued.

    The Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy, promulgated on 18 March 1812 by the Cortes of Cadiz, defined Spanish and Spanish-American liberalism for the early nineteenth century. ... Although liberals dominated the Cortes, the resulting constitution was a blend of modern and traditional elements.

  • Ten Years' War: A war with Cuba began.

    The provisional government convinced Maceo to give up, and with his surrender, the war ended on May 28, 1878. Many of the graduates of the Ten Years' War became central players in Cuba's War of Independence that started in 1895.

  • Third Carlist War: The war began.

    The relentless centralizing drive of the Spanish Crown led after the end of the First Carlist War to the reduction of the Basque institutional and legal system (1839-1841), but it was only after the Third Carlist War that it was virtually wiped out.

  • Spanish–American War: The war began.

    Photographic History of the Spanish American War , p. 36. On April 25, 1898 the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898.