Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere. On this day,10th March in 1496, he set sail from Hispaniola, heading to Spain.
He was carrying 225 Europeans and a large number of natives he had enslaved, but very little gold.
He sailed with a bitter, heavy heart.
After successfully capturing British positions in Louisiana and Mississippi, Spanish General Bernardo de Galvez, commander of the Spanish forces in North America, turns his attention to the British-occupied city of Pensacola, Florida, on this day in 1781. General Galvez and a Spanish naval force of more than 40 ships and 3,500 men landed at Santa [...]
On the 7th March, 1793, France declared war on Spain after Spanish forces invaded the French-occupied territories of Roussillon and Navarre on the border between the two countries.
Part of the French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European [...]
Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams sign the Florida Purchase Treaty, in which Spain agrees to cede the remainder of its old province of Florida to the United States.
Spanish colonization of the Florida peninsula began at St. Augustine in 1565. The Spanish colonists enjoyed a brief period [...]
The Spanish government says it will formally recognise one of the country´s best-known poets as a victim of the dictatorship of Gen Francisco Franco.
It will present the family of the poet, Miguel Hernandez, with an official letter rehabilitating his memory.
Hernandez was imprisoned as a traitor 70 years ago for supporting the Republicans in the Spanish [...]
While Britain was in recession and at war with Spain in Tudor times, smuggling in Somerset soared bringing illegal wealth to the county.
The research has been carried out by Dr. Duncan Taylor who specialises in economics and history.
He´s discovered that people risked their lives to smuggle calf skins to Spain even though this was punishable [...]
The characteristic green colour remains, but is obscured. The patent leather tricorn will still be used for official law enforcement and institutional buildings as is done now.
But Teresa disappear, the French-cap with which the director general of the Civil Guard most contentious in history, Luis Roldan, wanted to modernise the image of armed Institute in [...]
In 2010, Gandia will be celebrating the fifth centenary of the birth of Francisco de Borja y Aragón (Gandia, 1510), the first saint born into one Valencia´s most famous families, a lineage that governed half the known world from Rome for many years. Gandia will be organising innumerable activities to commemorate the event over the [...]