41 Facts About Spanish Habsburgs

Spanish Habsburgs attempted to enlarge Spain's sphere of influence in Italy, strengthening it against France.

Ferdinand's first investment of Spanish Habsburgs forces came in the War of the League of Cambrai against Venice, where the Spanish Habsburgs soldiers distinguished themselves on the field alongside their French allies at the Battle of Agnadello .

In 1543, Francis I, king of France, announced his unprecedented alliance with the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, by occupying the Spanish Habsburgs-controlled city of Nice in cooperation with Turkish forces.

Spanish Habsburgs first tried the path of negotiation at the Council of Trent in 1545, but the Protestant leadership, feeling betrayed by the stance taken by the Catholics at the council, went to war, led by the Saxon elector Maurice.

Spanish Habsburgs Empire had grown substantially since the days of Ferdinand and Isabella.

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Spanish Habsburgs settlements were established in the New World: Mexico City, the most important colonial city established in 1524 to be the primary center of administration in the New World; Florida, colonized in the 1560s; Buenos Aires, established in 1536; and New Granada, colonized in the 1530s.

In 1566, Calvinist-led riots in the Spanish Habsburgs Netherlands prompted the Duke of Alva to conduct a military expedition to restore order.

The Spanish Habsburgs, who derived a great deal of wealth from the Netherlands and particularly from the vital port of Antwerp, were committed to restoring order and maintaining their hold on the provinces.

The Spanish Habsburgs chose the route of negotiation, and pacified most of the southern provinces again with the Union of Arras in 1579.

Spanish Habsburgs's successor, Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king of France, was a man of great ability, winning key victories against the Catholic League at Arques and Ivry .

The Spanish Habsburgs, who derived a great deal of wealth from the Netherlands and particularly from the vital port of Antwerp, were committed to restoring order and maintaining their hold on the provinces.

The Spanish Habsburgs Armada suffered defeat at the hands of the English in 1588 and the situation in the Netherlands became increasingly difficult to manage.

The Spanish Habsburgs were on the defensive, mainly because they had wasted too much resources on the attempted invasion of England and on expeditions in northern France.

Spanish Habsburgs built on reforms attempted under earlier viceroys, but he is often credited with a major transformation in crown rule in Peru.

Spanish Habsburgs established administrative districts of corregimiento, and resettled native Andeans in reducciones to better rule them.

Spanish Habsburgs Inquisition expanded to the Indies in 1565 and was in place by 1570 in Lima and Mexico City.

In 1568, the Spanish Habsburgs defeated Hawkins' fleet at the Battle of San Juan de Ulua in present-day Mexico.

Spanish Habsburgs colonization began in earnest when Lopez de Legazpi arrived from Mexico in 1565 and formed the first settlements in Cebu.

The Spanish Habsburgs repelled an attack by Chinese pirate warlord Limahong.

The Spanish Habsburgs agreed that if they succeeded in conquering Brunei, Pengiran Seri Lela would indeed become the Sultan, while Pengiran Seri Ratna would be the new Bendahara.

The Spanish Habsburgs suffered heavy losses due to a cholera or dysentery outbreak.

Seri Lela's daughter, the Bruneian princess, left with the Spanish Habsburgs and went on to marry a Christian Tagalog, named Agustin de Legazpi of Tondo, and had children in the Philippines.

Spanish Habsburgs then conducted the centuries long Spanish Habsburgs–Moro conflict against the Sultanates of Maguindanao, Lanao and Sulu.

The Spanish Habsburgs fought back by establishing Christian fort-cities such as Zamboanga City on Muslim Mindanao.

Spanish Habsburgs forces led by Admiral Alvaro de Bazan captured the Azores Islands in 1583, completing the incorporation of Portugal into the Spanish Habsburgs Empire.

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Spanish Habsburgs needed someone to do the work of governing, and he settled on the Duke of Lerma.

Fortunately, Spanish Habsburgs forces had regained enough of the military initiative to convince a politically divided United Provinces to sign a truce in 1609.

Zuniga encouraged Philip to join the Austrian Habsburgs in the war, and Ambrogio Spinola, the rising star of the Spanish army, was sent at the head of the Army of Flanders to intervene.

Spinola and the Spanish Habsburgs army were focused on the Netherlands, and the war seemed to be going in Spain's favor.

The Spanish Habsburgs had been debasing their currency to pay for the war and prices exploded in Spain just as they had in previous years in Austria.

At the Battle of the Downs in 1639 a Spanish Habsburgs fleet was destroyed by the Dutch navy, and the Spanish Habsburgs found themselves unable to adequately reinforce and supply their forces in the Netherlands.

The Spanish Habsburgs, hard pressed elsewhere, were blamed for inadequately protecting Portugal's overseas colonies from the Dutch, and in a time of economic downturn, the Spanish Habsburgs colonies did not enjoy having to trade and compete with their Portuguese counterparts.

Spanish Habsburgs Inquisition was formally launched during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, continued by their Habsburg successors, and only ended in the 19th century.

Spanish Habsburgs was willing to do whatever it took to fight the heretics and preserve Spanish hegemony, even intervening in papal elections to ensure the choosing of a pro-Spanish pope.

Spanish Habsburgs's experienced a mystical ecstasy that became profoundly influential on Spanish culture and art.

Spanish Habsburgs received a large influx of gold from the colonies in the New World as plunder when they were conquered, much of which Charles used to prosecute his wars in Europe.

The Spanish Habsburgs left mining to private enterprise but instituted a tax known as the "quinto real" whereby a fifth of the metal was collected by the government.

The Spanish Habsburgs were quite successful in enforcing the tax throughout their vast empire in the New World; all bullion had to pass through the House of Trade in Seville, under the direction of the Council of the Indies.

Spanish Habsburgs'sep-farming was practiced extensively in Castile, and grew rapidly with rising wool prices with the backing of the king.

The city of Antwerp, in the Spanish Habsburgs Netherlands, lay at the heart of European commerce and its bankers financed most of Charles V's and Philip II's wars on credit.

Spanish Habsburgs Golden Age was a flourishing period of arts and letters in Spain which spanned roughly from 1550 to 1650.