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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 ...
A pre-Mercator nautical chart of 1571, from Portuguese cartographer Fernão Vaz Dourado (c. 1520–c. 1580). It belongs to the so-called plane chart model, where observed latitudes and magnetic directions are plotted directly into the plane, with a constant scale, as if the Earth were plane (Portuguese National Archives of Torre do Tombo, Lisbon).
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 ...
This chronology presents the timeline of the Reconquista, a series of military and political actions taken following the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula that began in 711. These Crusades began a decade later with dated to the Battle of Covadonga and its culmination came in 1492 with the Fall of Granada to Isabella I of Castile and ...
These were astronomical charts plotting the location of the stars over a distinct period of time. Published in 1496 by the Jewish astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician Abraham Zacuto, the Almanac Perpetuum included some of these tables for the movements of stars. [95] These tables revolutionized navigation, allowing the calculation of latitude.
Despite the fact that during the Iberian Union a certain degree of autonomy and the cultural identity of Portugal was maintained, many historians agree that the dynastic union was in fact a Spanish conquest by keeping Portugal and the Portuguese Empire as part of the Spanish colonial empire under the sovereignty of Philip II of Spain and his ...
An eighteenth-century map of the peninsula depicting various topographical features of the land, as published in Robert Wilkinson's General Atlas, c. 1794. Due to centuries of constant conflict, warfare and daily life in the Iberian Peninsula were interlinked.
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 ...