r/SpanishEmpire Mar 05 '22

Announcement r/SpanishEmpire has now opened as a community for sharing and discussing images, videos, articles and questions pertaining to the Spanish Empire.

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r/SpanishEmpire Aug 13 '24

Image 503 years ago Spanish forces captured Tenochtitlan

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r/SpanishEmpire Aug 08 '24

Image Spanish Magazine ''La Gaceta Ilustrada'' No. 656 (The Last of Guinea), Spanish Guinea, May 4, 1969.

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r/SpanishEmpire May 14 '24

Image The Storming of Teocalli by Cortez and His Troops (La Noche Triste, June 30-July 1, 1520), Painting by Emanuel Leutze, 1848

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r/SpanishEmpire May 05 '24

Question Was the Spanish-American War Useless because the main justification to start a war was to help Cuba get independence, but later on Cuba became the USA’s nightmare and nearly caused Nuclear Disaster in 1962?

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r/SpanishEmpire Apr 07 '24

Image Ignacio de Arteaga y Bazán (Aracena, Huelva, 17 de febrero de 1731 — 1783) fue un oficial español de la Armada Española recordado por haber realizado un importante viaje de exploración en las costas del Pacífico Noroeste de Norteamérica, alcanzando las costas de la Alaska rusa

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r/SpanishEmpire Apr 03 '24

Question Nobility of Colonial Spain

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From the 17th to the 19th century, what was the ranks of and titles of the Colonial Spain’s nobility and aristocracy? What was life like for them?


r/SpanishEmpire Mar 10 '24

Image El prodigioso viaje de Cabeza de Vaca 1527-1536

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r/SpanishEmpire Jan 31 '24

Image ELCANO. We were the First. «Primus Circumdedisti Me» (1st Circumnavigation of the Earth), 21st of December, 1521 (Magellan-Elcano Expedition, 1519-1522), Painting by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau

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r/SpanishEmpire Jan 08 '24

Article What role did Simon Bolivar play in the history of Latin America's independence from Spain?

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r/SpanishEmpire Dec 20 '23

Question Did the Spanish empire ever reach Australia or Antarctica?

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So, I know that the Spanish empire was one of the worlds largest empires and controlled territories in South America, North America, Africa and even Europe. But apparently it never got near Antarctica or Australia, but I am curious to know why?

Surely, since Antarctica is close to South America they could have found it when exploring. What stopped them from getting near these places? Australia on the other hand was close to South East Asia which the Spanish had a presence in. I know that distance is further than how it looks on the maps but I'm curious to know. I remember reading an article somewhere long ago that the Spanish "discovered" Australia, but is there any truth to it?


r/SpanishEmpire Nov 15 '23

Image Battle of Tétouan, 1860 (Spanish-Moroccan War, 1859-1860), Painting by Vicente Palmaroli y González in 1870

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r/SpanishEmpire Sep 06 '23

Image Santa Isabel (current Malabo), 11 October 1968. A day before of the signing of the Independence of Equatorial Guinea.

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r/SpanishEmpire Aug 02 '23

Question Question regarding races (clases) in the Spanish Empire

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I've recently read some old official documents from different times in the range from 1779 to 1813 and I saw some things that I found interesting, can you guys explain them to me?

First, mestizos and mulatos disappear and a new category emerges, pardos, were pardos both mestizos and mulatos?

Second, españoles were the whites born in the Americas or did it include peninsulares too? Because for some reason it seems the latter were called nobles where I checked, despite not necessarily being noblemen.

Third, why did documents specify whether Amerindians were slaves or not if Amerindians' slavery was completely abolished since 1542? Was this redundant or were there some Amerindian slaves even in the 1700's?

Fourth, why were whites called don for men and doña for women but non-white had no prefix? Was it based on race or is it a coincidence that whites in the documents I've seen had properties? Or another reason?

Thank you.


r/SpanishEmpire Aug 01 '23

Image Map of Spanish North America. The viceroyalty of New Spain in 1794 and 1819

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r/SpanishEmpire Jul 16 '23

Image Santa Ana de Hornos, an 18th century Jesuit mission in Mexico (before and after restoration)

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r/SpanishEmpire Jul 09 '23

Image ''The March of Gálvez'', through the Swamps to attack the British forts of Manchac and Baton Rouge, during the Spanish aid in the American War of Independence, 1779 (Part of American Revolutionary War & Anglo-Spanish War, 1779-1783), Painting by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau

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r/SpanishEmpire Jun 04 '23

Image The Return, ''Action of 9 August 1780'' (Part of American War of Independence & Anglo-Spanish War, 1779-1783), Painting by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau

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r/SpanishEmpire May 11 '23

Image Episodes of the Conquest, The Massacre of Cholula, 1519 (Part of Spanish Conquest of Mexico), Painting by Félix Parra in 1877

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r/SpanishEmpire Apr 28 '23

Image Portrait of Spanish explorer, conquistador and colonial governor Vasco Núñez de Balboa

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r/SpanishEmpire Mar 22 '23

Image 'I have those two bargains left, gentlemen!', Dutch cartoon depicting Spanish Prime Minister Práxedes Mateo Sagasta trying to sell the Canary and Caroline Islands after losing most of Spain's empire in the war with the United States - 1898

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r/SpanishEmpire Feb 22 '23

Image Soldiers of the Spanish Army in Puerto Rico at the time of the Spanish-American War - 1898

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r/SpanishEmpire Jan 25 '23

Image The Ransom Room in Cajamarca, Peru, where the last Inca Emperor Atahualpa was kept prisoner. Atahualpa offered Pizarro to buy his liberty by filling the room where he was kept prisoner with gold and the 2 following rooms with silver. Pizzaro took the treasure, but still executed him [700x923]

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r/SpanishEmpire Dec 31 '22

Image 'As the old Spanish throne topples, up goes the Cuban flag of independence', American cartoon showing the Spanish throne tumbling as Cuba raises its flag of independence across the sea - 1898

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r/SpanishEmpire Dec 13 '22

Video Hundreds of thousands of Moroccans march into the Spanish Sahara in an attempt to solidify Morocco's claim on the territory - 1975

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r/SpanishEmpire Nov 28 '22

Image British forces surrender following their failed attempt to capture the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife during the Anglo-Spanish war - 1797

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