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  2. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia

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    Charles V [d] [e] (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555. He was heir to and then head of the rising House of Habsburg.

  3. Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire - Wikipedia

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    Two key works by historian Charles Gibson, Tlaxcala in the Sixteenth Century (1952) [96] and his monograph The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule: A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519–1810 (1964) [97] were central in reshaping the historiography of the indigenous and their communities from the Spanish conquest to the 1810 Mexican ...

  4. List of Spanish monarchs - Wikipedia

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    On 1 October 1936, General Francisco Franco was proclaimed "Leader of Spain" (Spanish: Caudillo de España) in the parts of Spain controlled by the Nationalists (nacionales) after the Spanish Civil War broke out. At the end of the war, on 1 April 1939, Franco took control of the whole of Spain, ending the Second Republic.

  5. Spanish Empire - Wikipedia

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    Spain claimed all of North America in the Age of Discovery, but claims were not translated into occupation until a major resource was discovered and Spanish settlement and crown rule put in place. The French had established an empire in northern North America and took some islands in the Caribbean.

  6. New Spain - Wikipedia

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    New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Spanish: ... (1519–1521) to the collapse of Spanish rule in the Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821). ...

  7. History of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    By 1519, the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, ... during which Mexico was known as "New Spain" and ruled by a viceroy in the name of the Spanish monarch. Colonial Mexico ...

  8. Diego de Medrano - Wikipedia

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    Diego de Medrano was born during the reign of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who ruled as King of Spain from 1519 to 1556. On 1 September 1552, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issued the Carta Ejecutoria de Hidalguía to confirm the noble status of the Medrano family.

  9. Conquistador - Wikipedia

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    From 1519 to 1521, Hernán Cortés led the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, ruled by Moctezuma II. From the territories of the Aztec Empire, conquistadors expanded Spanish rule to northern Central America and parts of what is now the southern and western United States, and from Mexico sailing the Pacific Ocean to the Spanish East Indies.