The lives of Carlos I of Spain and V of Germany and his son, Felipe II.

carlos esperor of germany

1520

He was emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Charles V from 1520 to 1558.

Battle of Pavia

1525

This, coupled with Charles I of Spain obtaining the title of Holy Roman Emperor in 1520, put the French monarchy on the ropes. Start of clashes On the one hand the Franco-Venetian army, under the command of General Odet de Cominges, Viscount of Lautrec, with a total of 28,000 soldiers who had 16,000 Swiss pikemen among their ranks and on the other the imperial army with a total of 18,000 men under the command of the Italian condottier Prospero Colonna.

Battle of mühlberg

1547

The Battle of Mühlberg took place on April 24, 1547 in this German town between the troops of Carlos I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empire and those of the Schmalkalden League, with the triumph of the former. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_M%C3%BChlberg

Peace of augsburg

1555

The Peace of Augsburg, also called "Peace of Religions", was a deal signed by Ferdinand I of Habsburg, brother and representative of Emperor Charles V, and the forces of the Schmalkalden League on September 25, 1555 in the city of Augsburg in Germany, by which the religious conflict of the Protestant Reformation was resolved. An agreement that divides the Empire of Charles V into two into two Christian confessions https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paz_de_Augsburgo

Carlos Abdication 1

1556

Abdications of Brussels is the name of the successive acts of abdication of Carlos I of Spain and V of Germany, which took place in Brussels at the end of 1555 and beginning of 1556. The aging Emperor Carlos, adbica in favor of his son Felipe II , before the dignitaries present in the Coudenberg palace1 in Brussels. A few months after the death of his mother, he summoned the members of his family and, before the procurators of the States of Flanders and Brabant,

Battle of San Quentin

1557

The battle of San Quentin was a battle fought in the framework of the Italian Wars between the troops of the Spanish empire and the French army, which took place on August 10, 1557, with a decisive victory for the kingdom of Spain. The open war between Henry II of France and Philip II of Spain entered its crucial phase.

Flanders rebellion

1566

The Eighty Years' War 7 was a war that pitted the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands against their sovereign Felipe II of Spain. The rebellion against the monarch began in 1568, in the time of Margaret of Parma, governor of the Netherlands, and ended in 1648 with the recognition of the independence of the seven United
The final result of the Eighty Years' War was the actual independence of the Netherlands after the Peace of Westphalia

Battle of Lepanto

1571

The Battle of Lepanto was a naval combat that took place on October 7, 1571 near the Greek city of Náfpaktos.
The Catholics, led by John of Austria, were victorious, and only thirty Ottoman galleys were saved. In this battle Miguel de Cervantes participated, who was wounded and lost the mobility of his left hand, which earned him the nickname "one-armed from Lepanto."

Annexation of Portugal

1581

The annexation of the Kingdom of Portugal was one of the great achievements of Philip II. ... Felipe II considered that he had the right to occupy the throne, and achieving this would mean achieving a very important political objective, such as the reunification of two great empires: Spain and Portugal.

The Spanish Armada

1588

Armada Invincible is a term imposed by the English to refer to the Great Armada of 1588 and to increase the spirit of the English in battle (in the United Kingdom it is known as the Spanish Armada), projected by the Spanish monarch Felipe II to dethrone Elizabeth I and invade England. The attack took place in the context of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585-1604.9 The attack failed, but the war lasted sixteen more years and ended with the Treaty of London of 1604, favorable to Spain.10