Plus Ultra (Latin) ("Further Beyond") | |||||
Anthem | "Marcha Real" | ||||
Capital | Madrid | ||||
Largest city | Madrid | ||||
Other cities | Barcelona, Valecia, Sevilla, Zaragoza | ||||
Language official |
Spanish | ||||
others | Basque, Catalán, Galician | ||||
Religion main |
Roman Catholic | ||||
others | Judaism, Protestantism | ||||
Ethnic Groups main |
Spanish | ||||
others | Catalan, Basque | ||||
Demonym | Spanish, Spaniard | ||||
Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy | ||||
Legislature | Cortes Generales (Senado & Congreso de Diputados) | ||||
King | Juan Carlos I | ||||
Prime Minister | Soraya Santamaría | ||||
Area | 505,992 km2 | ||||
Population | 46,704,314 | ||||
Established | 1469 | ||||
Currency | Peseta | ||||
Time Zone | UTC +1 hours | ||||
Calling Code | +34 | ||||
Internet TLD | .es |
In 1469, the crowns of the Christian kingdoms of Castile and Aragon were united by the marriage of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, in 1478 commenced the completion of the conquest of the Canary Islands and in 1492, the combined forces of Castile and Aragon captured the Emirate of Granada, ending the last remnant of a 781-year presence of Islamic rule in Iberia, and creating the Modern Kingdom of Spain.
History[]
XV Century
1469: the marriage the kings Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon unites their crowns under the Christian kingdom of Spain.
1492: The Catholic Kingdom of Spain finishes the expulsion of the last Arabic Kingdom out of the Iberian Peninsula.
1496: June: Christopher Columbus finally gets an small fleet from the Spaniard Kingdom to travel West after being rejected over the last five years (European-Asian Trading Continuation negated the need of such expedition).
- August: Columbus arrives to the Island of "La Española" (Current Haiti) However, a disagreement between him and several of his officers sparks a mutiny. Columbus is killed and one of his ships heavily damaged.
- September: Part of the original crew decides to return to Spain (half of them will be wiped out by a powerful storm on their way back) the rest travel further West to find more advanced kingdoms and richness.November 1st: The Remaining Crew reaches an "Indian" tribe vassal of the Aztec Empire.
- December 26th: The last men (less than 35) enters "Tenochtitlán" where they're initially mistaken as gods and then taken prisoners after a failed attempt to capture the Emperor Moctezuma Xocoyotzin. They are forced to teach the Aztecs about their language, culture, weapons and horses.
1497: A second Spaniard expedition is sent to colonize La Española Island.
1498: The Treaty of Tordesillas is signed betwen Portugal and Spain to divide the discovered continent between them.
XVI Century
1502: An expedition is sent to find the renegades that escaped to the West, after crossing the Gulf of Yucatán, they are informed of the renegade's faith by the local tribes.
1505: Nicolás de Ovando leads a team to conquest the City of Tenochtitlán. However, they're defeated by the Aztecs who already know how to manufacture and use primitives fire weapons as well as counting with cavalry of their own. The Spaniard presence inflicts damage, however, through the dissemination of several diseases brought by their soldiers, causing an epidemic on the Aztec Kingdom, but the Aztec Empire standd still.
1508: Beginning of the First Aztec-Spaniard War.
1509: Creation of "La Gobernacion de Nueva España" in Mexhica Territory.
1512: End of the First Aztec-Spaniard War.
1520: The Second Aztec-Spaniard War begins.
1537: The Second Aztec-Spaniard War ends.
1550: The Third Aztec-Spaniard War Begins.
1556: The Spanish realm is economically ruined, deprived of its American rights and Dutch northern possessions, the Kingdom concentrates its last resources on the Caribbean.
1559: The Third Aztec-Spaniard War (Phase 1) Ends.
1570: The Third Aztec-Spaniard War (Phase 2) begins.
1575: Maximilian II of the Holy Roman Empire seizes the opportunity left by the Spaniard retreat and settles in the south end of the Silberach (OTL: Rio de la Plata) and establishes the City of Großaue (OTL: Buenos Aires).
1580: A number of the northern provinces of the Netherlands signed the Union of Utrecht in 1979, this was followed by the Act of Abjuration the following year, (the declaration of independence of the provinces from Philip II). Situation finally achieved by the end of the Year.
1583: The Emperor created the Imperiale Kolonie of Silberach on the Southern Hemisphere. A series of colonization waves started to arrive from The Holy Roman Empire, sent under the promises of new lands and rights upon them.
1585: End of "La Gobernacion de Nueva España".
1586: Treaty of Tuxpan-Resistencia. The Third Aztec-Spaniard War finishes again in Spanish defeat.
- Finalization of the Aztec-Spaniard Wars.
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Spain is currently divided in Eleven "Provincias".
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