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The Iberian Union is a historiographical term used to describe the personal union of the Kingdom of Portugal with the Monarchy of Spain, which in turn was itself the dynastic union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, and of their respective colonial empires, that existed between 1580 and 1640 and brought the entire Iberian Peninsula except Andorra, as well as Portuguese and Spanish overseas ...
Iberian Peninsula as of 1037: 1038: 22 June: Ferdinand the Great was crowned king of León and Castile in León, Spain. 1043: 26 June: Gonzalo of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza was assassinated by one of his knights. Ramiro I annexed Sobrarbe and Ribagorza. 1054: 1 September: Battle of Atapuerca: Navarrese and Leonese forces met near modern Atapuerca ...
Timeline of rulers in the Iberian Peninsula during the 5th century. 409 Invasion of the NW of the Iberian peninsula (the Roman Gallaecia) by the Suevi (Quadi and Marcomanni) under king Hermerico, accompanied by the Buri. The Suevic Kingdom eventually received official recognition from the Romans for their settlement there in Gallaecia. It was ...
After the Spanish Revolution of 1868 deposed Isabella II, while a new monarch was sought, a provisional government and a regency headed by Francisco Serrano y Domínguez from 8 October 1868 until 2 January 1871 was established.
The Iberian revolt (197–195 BC) was a rebellion of the Iberian peoples of the provinces Citerior and Ulterior, created shortly before in Hispania by the Roman state to regularize the government of these territories, against that Roman domination in the 2nd century BC.
236 BC - The Carthaginian General Hamilcar Barca enters Iberia with his armies through Gadir. [1]228 BC - Hamilcar Barca dies in battle. He is succeeded in command of the Carthaginian armies in Iberia by his son-in-law Hasdrubal, who extends the newly acquired empire by skillful diplomacy, and consolidates it by the foundation of Carthago Nova as the capital of the new province.
1793–1815: Wars of the French Revolution, and Napoleonic wars; French conquests spread Ideas of the French Revolution, including abolition of serfdom, modern legal systems, and of Holy Roman Empire; stimulate rise of nationalism; 1804–1865: Russia expand across Siberia to Pacific. [28]
Spain in the 19th century was a country in turmoil. Occupied by Napoleon from 1808 to 1814, a massively destructive "liberation war" ensued.Following the Spanish Constitution of 1812, Spain was divided between the constitution's liberal principles and the absolutism personified by the rule of Ferdinand VII, who repealed the 1812 Constitution for the first time in 1814, only to be forced to ...