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On February 24, 1500, Charles I of Spain and V of Germany were born in Ghent. Son of Juana I of Castile «la Loca» and Felipe II of Aragon «el Hermoso» and grandson of the Catholic Monarchs -
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His parents Felipe and Juana leave for Spain, staying in the care of Margarita de York
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Felipe and Juana set out again for Spain to claim the crown of Castile after the death of Isabel la Católica. That same year, Felipe died prematurely and Juana, considered a madwoman, was locked up in a convent in Tordesillas by her father, Fernando de ella.
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Carlos's coming of age is declared, being named Lord of the Netherlands, ending the regency of Margarita.
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On January 22 he is appointed by his grandfather, Fernando II of Aragon, governor and administrator of the Kingdoms of Castilla y León, on behalf of Juana I (incapacitated) and the Crown of Aragon
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On March 21, Carlos sent a letter to the Council of Castile informing him of his decision to appoint himself King.
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After the death of his maternal grandfather Fernando II Catholic, he inherited the unified crowns of Castile and Aragon.
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On June 28, Charles is elected King of Romans, becoming sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire.
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In Castile, the War of the Communities of Castile takes place
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Mary, once installed in Vienna, became Queen of Bohemia and the Romans, Queen of Hungary and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire.
As a result of the marriage between María and Maximiliano, 15 children were born.
In 1582 after the death of her husband, she returned to Spain. She with her daughter Margarita retired to the Convent of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid where she died on February 26, 1603. -
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Juana was the regent of Spain. Juana gives birth to a posthumous son to the Portuguese king. It occurs on January 20, 1554 and the child receives the name of Sebastián.
On July 12, 1554 Juana arrived in Spain to take care of the regency of the kingdom.
In 1557 she founded the Convent of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid. She knew how to perfectly play the role of her regent and that she was of great help in political affairs for her brother, Felipe II.
She died on September 7, 1573. -
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The Battle of Mühlberg occurred on April 24, 1547 in the German city of the same name, located on the banks of the Elbe River. It was the warlike confrontation that put an end to the Schmalkalden War, a conflict that arose between the army of the Emperor Charles V of Habsburg and the Schmalkalden League.
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The Peace of Augsburg was an agreement that was reached in Germany on September 25, 1555, at the hands of the Holy Roman Empire. The agreement sought to achieve peace between Lutheranism and Catholicism, two religions with different principles and whose believers had caused internal conflicts within the Empire.
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On September 21, 1558, Carlos I of Spain and V of Germany died in the monastery of Yuste, the place where the monarch who dominated the world decided to spend his last years of life, after the abdications of Brussels, after which his brother Fernando was in command of the Germanic Empire and his son Felipe II took possession of the kingdom of Spain and the possessions of the New World.
