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The crown established New Spain as a viceroyalty in 1535, appointing as viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, an aristocrat loyal to the monarch rather than the conqueror Cortés. New Spain was the first of the viceroyalties that Spain created, the second being Peru in 1542, following the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Both New Spain and Peru had ...
The evangelization of Mexico. Spanish conquerors saw it as their right and their duty to convert indigenous populations to Catholicism. Because Catholicism had played such an important role in the Reconquista (Catholic reconquest) of the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims, the Catholic Church in essence became another arm of the Spanish government, since the crown was granted sweeping powers ...
The Viceroyalty of New Spain (1521–1821) — a part of the Spanish Empire in North America and Maritime Southeast Asia. Centered in Colonial Mexico , and reaching to the Spanish West Indies (Caribbean), the Spanish colonial territories in present day United States , and the Spanish East Indies (Asia).
1st Marquess of Reunión and of New Spain: 14 September 1810 4 March 1813 61 Félix María Calleja del Rey, 1st Count of Calderón: 4 March 1813 20 September 1816 62 Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, 1st Count of Venadito: 20 September 1816 5 July 1821 63 Francisco Novella Azabal Pérez y Sicardo: 15 July 1821 21 July 1821 64 Juan O'Donojú: 21 July 1821
Governors in the various provinces of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. In addition to governors, the following list (under construction) intends to give an overview of colonial units of the provincial level; therefore it also includes some offices of similar rank, especially the intendant .
History of the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain — from the 16th to 19th centuries in North America, the Caribbean, and the East Indies. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
Map of the former provinces of New Spain, depicting the New Kingdom of León (highlighted green). Though the New Kingdom of León was part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, it remained functionally autonomous during much of its history, due to the long distance between its main cities; however, it quickly developed a shared culture with its neighbor provinces.
Six of the First Twelve, mural in the ex-convento of Huexotzinco. Motolinia is depicted fourth from the left. The Twelve Apostles of Mexico, the Franciscan Twelve, or the Twelve Apostles of New Spain, were a group of twelve Franciscan missionaries who arrived in the newly-founded Viceroyalty of New Spain on May 13 or 14, 1524 and reached Mexico City on June 17 or 18, [1] with the goal of ...