Catholic monarchs

Concordia de los toros de Guisando

1468

The first confrontations that would lead to the War of the Castilian Succession had begun in 1464, when a group of noblemen had rebelled with the intention of making the king abdicate and depose his favorite, Beltrán de la Cueva.

Catholic Monarchs marriage

Oct 19, 1469

The couple married in the Vivero palace in Valladolid on October 19, 1469, she was 18 years old and he was 17, spending their honeymoon in the castle of Fuensaldaña located in the current province of Valladolid.

Enrique IV dies

1474

Isabel's stepbrother, because of the political consequences of his death and because of how close his favorite death was to his own. Juan Pacheco, Marquis of Villena, died in October 1474 in a sudden death due to a "postema that came out in his throat, spurting blood from his mouth"

Acuerdo de Segovia

1475

The Concord of Segovia was a treaty signed on January 15, 1475 in the Alcázar of Segovia, by Isabel I of Castile and her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon, King of Sicily and Prince of Gerona.

War of the Castilian Succession begins

1475

The War of Castilian Succession was a military conflict that took place from 1474 to 1479 over the succession of the Crown of Castile between the supporters of Juana de Trastámara, daughter of the late monarch Henry IV of Castile, and those of Isabel, his half-sister. latest.

Battle of Toro

1476

The battle of Toro was fought in the vicinity of that town (currently belonging to the province of Zamora, in Spain) on March 1, 1476, between the troops of the Catholic Monarchs on the one hand and those of Alfonso V of Portugal. and Prince John of Portugal.

Spanish Inquisition established

1478

The Spanish Inquisition or Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition was an institution founded in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms.

Treaty of Alcáçovas

1479

The Treaty of Alcazobas or Peace of Alcazobas or Treaty of Alcazobas-Toledo was an agreement signed in the Portuguese town of the same name, on September 4, 1479, between the representatives of the kings Isabel and Fernando de Castilla y Aragón.

War of Granada starts

1482

The Granada War was the set of military campaigns that took place between 1482 and 1492, undertaken by Queen Isabella I of Castile and her husband King Ferdinand II of Aragon within the Nasrid kingdom of Granada.

Expulsion of the Jews

1492

The expulsion of the Jews from Spain was ordered in 1492, in Castile and Aragon, by the Catholic Monarchs through the Edict of Granada with the purpose, according to the decree, of preventing them from continuing to influence the New Christians so that they would Judaize.

Conquist of Granada

1492

The Granada War was the set of military campaigns that took place between 1482 and 1492, undertaken by Queen Isabella I of Castile and her husband King Ferdinand II of Aragon within the Nasrid kingdom of Granada, culminating in the Capitulations of Pomegranate of King Boabdil.

Discovery of America

Oct 12, 1492

Discovery of America is the name given to the historical event that occurred on October 12, 1492, consisting of the arrival in America of a Spanish expedition led by Christopher Columbus by order of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabel de Castilla and Fernando de Aragón.

Treaty of Tordesillas

1494

The Treaty of Tordesillas (in Portuguese: Treaty of Tordesilhas) was a commitment signed in the town of Tordesillas —located in the current province of Valladolid, in Spain—, on June 7, 1494, between the representatives of Isabel and Fernando, kings of Castile and Aragon.

Conquest of Canary Islands

1496

The conquest of the Canary Islands was the process by which this archipelago, inhabited by aboriginal peoples, was incorporated by military occupation into the Crown of Castile throughout the 15th century.

Forced conversion of Muslims

1501

The Pragmatics of July 20, 1501, after the registration of the entire Moorish population and an order of forced conversion limited to the Moors from Granada, prohibited the Castilian Moriscos (that is, the Mudejars existing in other kingdoms of the Crown of Castile) entered the kingdom of Granada.

Death of Isabel I

Nov 26, 1504

The court was in Medina del Campo, when the serious illness was declared, a dropsy, Pedro Mártir said as a witness. Aware of the outcome, he ordered that the masses for his health be changed for his soul, he asked for extreme unction and the Blessed Sacrament. Having made a will on October 12, he died shortly before noon on November 26, 1504, in the Royal Palace:

Laws of Toro

1505

Las Leyes de Toro de 1505 son el resultado de la actividad legislativa de los Reyes Católicos, fijada tras la muerte de la reina Isabel con ocasión de la reunión de las Cortes en la ciudad de Toro en 1505 (Cortes de Toro), en un conjunto de 83 leyes promulgadas el 7 de marzo de ese mismo año en nombre de la reina Juana I de Castilla.

Expansion of Castilla in Northern America

1505

After taking Melilla in 1497, Castilla and Aragón, took over serveral places such as Mazalquivir, Orán, Tripoli, Bugía, Túnez, etc.

Felipe I died and Fernando II regent

1506

After the death of her husband, Juana of Castilla was accused of being mental ill (she was called Juana "the Mad") and Fernando became regent of Castilla until his death.

Conquest of Navarra

1512

The conquest of Navarre was the process of annexation of the Kingdom of Navarre by the Kingdom of Castile, which began in the 12th century and ended in the 16th. It would be in the twelfth century.

Carlos I becomes king

1516

Carlos I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empire (Ghent, County of Flanders, February 24, 1500-Cuacos de Yuste, September 21, 1558), called "el César", reigned together with his mother, Juana I de Castile.

Fernando II death

Jan 23, 1516

His death could have been caused by having abused cantárida, which in those days was used as an aphrodisiac, in an attempt to achieve a male heir with his wife Germana de Foix.