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The second Family Compact was made on October 25, 1743, again by King Philip V of Spain and King Louis XV of France in the Treaty of Fontainebleau. This pact was signed in the middle of the War of Austrian Succession, and many of its clauses had to do with the conduct of the war. Queen Elisabeth again sought Spain's expansion in Italy, this ...
Three year peace agreement between Scotland and England. 1527 Treaty of Westminster: Treaty of alliance between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France against King Charles V of Spain. 1528 Treaty of Gorinchem: Between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke Charles of Guelders. 1529 Treaty of Barcelona
Spain under the Restoration: The period ended. 1936: Spanish Civil War (to 1939) Brown: Initial Nationalist zone – July 1936: 1939: Francoist Spain: The period began. Spain stays neutral through World War II 1953 Spain and the United States signs the Pact of Madrid. 1955 Spain joins the United Nations. 1959: Spanish miracle: A period of ...
Charles's father, King Philip V of Spain, wrote the following letter to Charles. The letter began with the words "To the King of Naples, My Son, and My Brother". [ 16 ] Charles was unique in the fact that he was the first ruler of Naples to actually live there, after two centuries of viceroys.
The Spanish transition to democracy, known in Spain as la Transición (IPA: [la tɾansiˈθjon]; ' the Transition ') or la Transición española (' the Spanish Transition '), is a period of modern Spanish history encompassing the regime change that moved from the Francoist dictatorship to the consolidation of a parliamentary system, in the form of constitutional monarchy under Juan Carlos I.
In 1700, with the death of the last Habsburg monarch, Charles II of Spain, his will named the House of Bourbon in the form of Philip V of Spain as the successor to the Spanish throne. The Bourbon family were also Kings of France and so the asiento was granted in 1702 to the French Guinea Company , for the importation of 48,000 African slaves ...
Spain is a secular parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, [16] with King Felipe VI as head of state. A developed country , it is a major advanced capitalist economy, [ 17 ] with the world's fifteenth-largest by both nominal GDP and PPP-adjusted GDP .
After Philip IV of Spain defeat, Marie-Thérèse of Austria, Infant of Spain, was married to the king of France Louis XIV. In 1697, The Spanish ceded the western part of Hispaniola to France of what will become known as French Saint-Domingue (later known as Haiti). Philip of Anjou is proclaimed Philip V of Spain on 16 November 1700 at Versailles.