34 Facts About Spanish Empire

Spanish Empire, known as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy was a colonial empire governed by Spain and its predecessor states between 1492 and 1976.

The Spanish Empire princesses married the heirs of Portugal, England and the House of Habsburg.

Spanish Empire was killed at the Zuni village of Hawikuh in present-day New Mexico.

Spanish Empire benefited from favorable factor endowments in its overseas possessions with their large, exploitable, indigenous populations and rich mining areas.

Many of the goods being exported to the Spanish Empire originated from manufacturers in northwest Europe, rather than in Spain.

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One practice used by the Spanish Empire to gather workers for the mines was called repartimiento.

Spanish Empire was the first governor-general of the Spanish East Indies.

Spanish Empire settled and took control of Tidore in 1603 to trade spices and counter Dutch encroachment in the archipelago of Maluku.

The Spanish Empire presence lasted until 1663, when the settlers and military were moved back to the Philippines.

Part of the Ternatean population chose to leave with the Spanish Empire, settling near Manila in what later became the municipality of Ternate.

Spanish Empire galleons travelled across the Pacific Ocean annually between Acapulco in Mexico and Manila, and from there the primary Asian destination for silver from the Americas was China.

The settlement gave spoils to those who had backed a Habsburg for the Spanish Empire monarchy, ceding European territory of the Spanish Empire Netherlands, Naples, Milan, and Sardinia to Austria; Sicily and parts of Milan to the Duchy of Savoy, and Gibraltar and Menorca to the Kingdom of Great Britain.

From an opposing point of view according to the "backwardness" mentioned above the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt traveled extensively throughout the Spanish Empire Americas, exploring and describing it for the first time from a modern scientific point of view between 1799 and 1804.

The most famous traveler in Spanish Empire America was Prussian scientist Alexander von Humboldt, whose travel writings, especially Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain and scientific observations remain important sources for the history of Spanish Empire America.

Spanish Empire crown funded a number of important scientific expeditions: Botanical Expedition to the Viceroyalty of Peru ; Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada ; the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Spain ; which scholars are now examining afresh.

In 1783 and 1784 the Spanish Empire navy bombarded Algiers to end piracy in the Mediterranean.

The British blockaded the colonial ports of the Thirteen Colonies, and the route from Spanish Empire-controlled New Orleans up to the Mississippi river was an effective alternative to supply the American rebels.

Spanish Empire aid was supplied to the colonies via four main routes: from French ports with the funding of Roderigue Hortalez and Company; through the port of New Orleans and up the Mississippi river; from warehouses in Havana; and from the northwestern Spanish Empire port of Bilbao, through the Gardoqui family trading company which supplied significant war materiel.

Many Spanish Empire expeditions explored large parts of this vast region, especially those close to Spanish Empire settlements.

The Spanish Empire were barred by their laws from slaving of indigenous people, leaving them without a commercial interest deep in the interior of the Amazon basin.

In 1808, the Spanish Empire king was tricked and Spain was taken over by Napoleon without firing a shot, but the French provoked a popular uprising from the Spanish Empire people and the grinding guerrilla warfare, which Napoleon dubbed his "ulcer, " the Peninsular War, ensued.

Idea of a separate identity for Spanish America has been developed in the modern historical literature, but the idea of complete Spanish American independence from the Spanish Empire was not general at the time and political independence was not inevitable.

Spanish Empire Americans reacted in much the same way the Peninsular Spanish Empire did, legitimizing their actions through traditional law, which held that sovereignty reverted to the people in the absence of a legitimate king.

The majority of Spanish Empire Americans continued to support the idea of maintaining a monarchy, but did not support retaining absolute monarchy under Ferdinand VII.

The juntas in the Americas did not accept the governments of the Europeans—neither the government set up for Spain by the French nor the various Spanish Empire governments set up in response to the French invasion.

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Finally the Spanish Empire government went so far as to renounce sovereignty over all of continental America in 1836.

Philippine Revolution began in August 1896, when the Spanish Empire authorities discovered the Katipunan, an anti-colonial secret organization.

That year, revolutionaries and the Spanish Empire signed the Pact of Biak-na-Bato, which temporarily reduced hostilities.

In 1848, Spanish Empire troops occupied the uninhabited Chafarinas Islands, anticipating a French move on the rocks located off the North-African coast.

In 1934, during the government of Prime Minister Alejandro Lerroux, Spanish Empire troops led by General Osvaldo Capaz landed in Sidi Ifni and carried out the occupation of the territory, ceded de jure by Morocco in 1860.

Spanish Empire left a huge linguistic, religious, political, cultural, and urban architectural legacy in the Western Hemisphere.

The territorial divisions of the empire in Spanish America became the basis for boundaries between new republics after independence and for state divisions within countries.

Long colonial period in Spanish Empire America resulted in a mixing of indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans that were classified by race and hierarchically ranked, which created a markedly different society than the European colonies of North America.

In concert with the Portuguese, the Spanish Empire laid the foundations of a truly global trade by opening up the great trans-oceanic trade routes and the exploration of unknown territories and oceans for the western knowledge.