timeline of the Catholic Monarchs’ reign

  • 1468

    1468

    Isabel and Fernando get married
  • 1474

    1474

    Isabel happens to be Isabel I queen of Catilla
  • 1475

    1475

    They won the war of Castilian succession
  • 1479

    1479

    Fernando passes to King Fernando II of Aragon
  • 1482

    1482

    Fernando II and Isabel I undertook the Granada war.
    Until 1492
    The first expulsion of the Jews from Castilla occurs.
  • 1491

    1491

    The Catholic kings receive the keys of the city from Boabdil
  • 1492

    1492

    Discovery of America
    The final expulsion of the Jews from the two crowns occurs.
  • 1493

    1493

    Barcelona Treaty
    Spain recovers Roussillon and Cerdanya in exchange for its neutrality against the French claims in Italy
  • 1494

    1494

    The conquest of the Canary archipelago ends. Signing of the Treaty of Tordesillas between the Catholic Monarchs and Juan II of Portugal, for the distribution of overseas conquests between Spain and Portugal
  • 1496

    1496

    Castilla conquered the canarian islands
  • 1501

    1501

    -Queen Elizabeth prohibits Moors, Jews and converts from traveling to America.
    -The war with Italy is entered into for the kingdom of Naples
  • 1504

    1504

    Isabel I death and Fernando II remains as regent on behalf of his daughter Juana I of Castilla ("la loca")
  • 1506

    1506

    The mental incapacity of Juana I of Castilla and the death of her husband Felipe I "the beautiful" make it possible for Fernando to re-occupy the regency on behalf of his grandson Carlos V
  • 1515

    1515

    Fernando annexes Navarra to Castile, Carlos V's age of majority also occurs
  • 1516

    1516

    Fernando dies
    and the court of Prince Carlos V named Cardinal Cisneros regent of Castile.
    And in Aragon he exercises the regency to Alonso de Aragón (bastard son of Fernando)
    Juana I of Castile receives the inheritance of the Aragonese states and entrusts her government to her son Carlos, as Carlos I king of Castile and Aragon, prince of the Netherlands and Carlos IV king of Sicily (first Austria of Spain)