Charles I (1516 – 1556) and

Phillip II (1556-1598)

The Spanish Empire

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The revolt of Comuneros 1520-

1521

• Bravo – Padilla –

Maldonado

• Foreign king

• Tax increase

• 1521 Batalla Villalar

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Revolt of Germanías 1519 -1523

• Rebelion against the nobility by armed

brotherhoods created by guilds in Valencia

and Mallorca

• Ended by the royal army

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Moriscos revolt or Rebelión de las

Alpujarras

• Moriscos were converted Moors who held no important state positions in Spain

• Reforms against their culture and traditions.

• Finally moriscos were dispersed throughout Castille

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Madrid new and first capital

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Charles I

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War (4) with France

• He defeated France

in a war for the

control of the Italian

territories

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Turkish Empire

• He fought against the

Ottoman Empire and

the Ottoman pirates

who were trying to

control the North of

Africa, the

Mediterranean Sea

and getting to Viena.

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Protestants

• He fought angainst the German princes of the HRE who supported Protestantism. He defeated them at the Battle of Mühlberg but in the end he had to sign the Peace of Augsburg, which gave the German princes the rigth to choose their religion and impose it to their subjects,

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French war

• He defeated the

French in the Battle of

San Quintin and

made peace with

them Spanish

predominance in Italy

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Turks

• Alliance with Venice

and the pope

defeated the

Ottomans at the

Battle of Lepanto

(Greece) 1571

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Low Countries 1568 - 1648

• He tried to control the

Protestants in the

Netherlands, but this

caused a rebellion and,

later, a war against

Spain. The northern

provinces of the

Netherlands gained

independence from the

Spanish crown keeping

what nowdays is Belgium

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Invincible Armada

• England support for the

Protestants in the

Netherlands led to a war

between England and

Spain. Phillip II organised

a naval fleet “La Armada

Invencible” and sent to

invade England, but he

was not succesful and the

Spanish fleet was

defeated in 1588

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Portugal

• He became king of

Portugal in 1580

when the Portuguese

king died without an

heir Portugal kept all

its laws and

institutions.

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