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It was a revolt by artisan guilds against the government of Charles V in the kingdom of Valencia. It also inspired a revolt in the island of Mayorca. The revolt was an anti-monarchist, anti-feudal movement inspired by the Italian republics. It also brought an strong anti-islamic aspect, as the rebels wanted forced conversions into Christianity. -
It was an uprising by citizens of Castile against the rule of Charles I and his administration between 1520 and 1521. After Ferdinand's death in 1516, Joanna's sixteen-year-old son Charles was proclaimed king of both Castile and Aragon. Charles had been raised in the Netherlands with little knowledge of Castilian. He arrived in Spain in October 1517. These factors resulted in mistrust between the new king and the Castilian social elites, who could see the threat to their power and status. -
It was a treaty between Charles V and the Schmalkaldic League, signed in September 1555 at the imperial city of Augsburg. It officially ended the religious struggle between the two groups and made the legal division of Christianity permanent within the Holy Roman Empire, allowing rulers to choose either Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism. Calvinism was not allowed until the Peace of Westphalia. -
It was a war between the Castilian crown and moriscos. It was led by a morisco known as Aben Humeya. This violent conflict took part mainly on the mountainous region of Alpujarra, on the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada between Granada city and the Mediterranean coast. It occurred mainly because of the cultural limitations moriscos had. Most of the Morisco population was then expelled from the Kingdom of Granada and was dispersed throughout the Kingdom of Castille -
The battle of lepanto was a naval engagement that took place when a fleet of the Holy League arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire. It involved more than 400 ships and christians wanted to conquer Cyprus. The victory of the Holy League is of great importance in the history of Europe and of the Ottoman Empire, marking the turning-point of Ottoman military expansion into the Mediterranean. -
The defeat of the Spanish Armada occured when Philip II tried to conquer England using the spanish armada. After 8 hours of fight, the wind made the spanish armada weaker making the english naval fleet more powerful. This led to the defeat of the 'Invencible Spanish Armada' -
The expulsion of the moriscos from the iberian peninsula was made between 1609 and 1613. The first ones to be expelled were the Valencian ones, later, the ones that followed were the ones from: Andalucia, Extremadura, Aragon and Castilla. It's said that more less 350.000 moriscos were expelled. -
The 30 Years War took place largely on the Holy Roman Empire from 1618 to 1648. It caused an estimated 4.5 to 8 million deaths. The first phase from 1618 until 1635 was a civil war between German members of the Holy Roman Empire, with external powers as supportive roles. After 1635, the Empire became in a wider struggle between France, supported by Sweden and Spain in alliance with Emperor Ferdinand III. It ended with the peace of westphalia which established the Dutch independence from Spain. -
France started taking part on Spain politics during the 30 Years War. This started a big conflict between France and Spain, Spain started a revolt in France, France cut off access to the Netherlands... This treaty ended the war and was signed by Louis XIV of France and Philip IV of Spain on the Pheasant island, which has remained a French-Spanish territory since then. -
The war of the spanish succession took place between 1701-1715. It was a conflict involving many of the leading European powers that was triggered by the death in November 1700 of the childless Charles II of Spain. It caused the spanish empire to lose some territories and for example Neatherlands gained lot of power. At the end Philip remained on the throne.