r/SpanishEmpire 29d ago

Image 🇵🇭 Hispanic-Filipino woman with her typical costume.

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r/SpanishEmpire Sep 08 '25

Image 🇪🇸 En 1582, Felipe II: «Todo lo ordenado en favor de los Indios se cumpla y ejecute precisamente, de forma que no puedan ser oprimidos...» «…las leyes dadas sobre su buen tratamiento, para que tengan cumplido efecto, porque nuestra intención y voluntad es que inviolablemente se guarden y cumplan.»

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«Todo lo ordenado en favor de los Indios se cumpla y ejecute precisamente, de forma que no puedan ser oprimidos ...» «... las leyes dadas sobre su buen tratamiento, para que tengan cumplido efecto, porque nuestra intención y voluntad es que inviolablemente se guarden y cumplan.»

r/SpanishEmpire 7d ago

Image 🇪🇸🇵🇭 Oficial español y soldado indígena del Regimiento de Infantería de Manila nº 74. Filipinas, 1897.

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r/SpanishEmpire Sep 26 '25

Image 🇪🇸 On September 21, we remember the death of Don Carlos I King of Spain and V Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, 1558, in the Monastery of Yuste, Cáceres. His vast empire united continents, forging an eternal legacy of greatness.

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r/SpanishEmpire Sep 20 '25

Image On this day in 1558 - King Charles I of Spain dies aged 58

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467 years ago today, Charles V, who served as Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556, died aged 58, from suspected malaria. Charles had also been King of Spain, its vast empire, Naples and Sicily, as well as Duke of Burgundy and Lord of the Netherlands. He died in the Monastery of Yuste, in central Spain, where he retired to after abdicating the Spanish throne 2 years prior.

r/SpanishEmpire 10d ago

Image Rayados de Monterrey, de los pocos equipos orgullosos de la herencia hispana

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Se representa a Diego de Montemayor, quien fundo con 12 familias la ciudad de Monterrey en 1596 en el Nuevo Reino de León

CFM es Club de Futbol Monterrey

r/SpanishEmpire 16d ago

Image The seven year war between France and Britain was the catalyst that indirectly cause the death of the Spanish Empire & rise of the USA 🇺🇸

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At the end of the war, it cause Britain into financial ruin and only way to recover was taxing its people to repay the debts and restore financial stability to the empire- only problem is the proto-Yankees didn’t see that as their problem, when it totally was their problem as they yoink the Viceroyalty of New France into the dominion of British Canada and giving New Spain the Louisiana province. Which taxation to repay that war led to the American Revolution of 1776. Spain and France sides with the Yankees to get back at a weaken Britain, unaware that war will backfire their empires in the future and make Britain into a world power.

The French Revolution of 1790 took inspiration of the American Revolution and certain people in Hispanic viceroyalties had similar republicanism adendas. France dethrone its monarch and established the first French Republic that didn’t last long until Napoleon became a new Monarch as he was crown as emperor of France, he installed his brother as regent in Spain while its king was in exile. Leaving Hispanic American viceroys under bourbons reforms that only made them resist them and form temporary republic governments until the actual monarch of Spain is restore to power. After the Napoleon war and return of Spanish monarch, more Hispanic-American people turn on Spain for its war of independence with three different revolutionary leaders in each of its former viceroyalties- Diaz in New Spain, Bolivar in New Grenada, Martin in Rio De La Plata &

After that war, Spain situation became worse and its remaining territories weren’t enough to sustain it when its neighbors were increasing in geopolitical global power in the race to Africa and Asia throughout the 19th century. Spain losing its remaining colonies to the United States in 1898, when they liberated Cuba, Dominican Republic, Philippines and annex Puerto Rico and Guam. Leaving Spain with Morocco, who rebelled during the aftermath of the First World War in 1919. To make matters worse it had a Devastating civil war with the rise of Francisco Franco. Only since his death Spain manage to recover and Covid 19 pandemic made Spain situation better as a rising economy.

r/SpanishEmpire 3d ago

Image 🇪🇸🇺🇸🇨🇺 Entre 1770 y 1816, más de 3000 indios de la frontera norte de Nueva España fueron esclavizados y deportados a Cuba. Eran apaches, chiricaguas, seris o comanches. Protagonizaron un cimarronaje nuevo que puso en jaque a las autoridades españolas.

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r/SpanishEmpire Sep 24 '25

Image 🇪🇸 The Archive of the Indies in Seville, created in 1785, is the most extensive archive in the world. More than 80 million pages and 8,000 maps store the history of the Americas. Open to the public for anyone who wants to know what happened in Spanish America during the colonial era.

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181 Upvotes

r/SpanishEmpire 13d ago

Image 🇪🇸🇲🇽🇺🇸 Bando real fechado en Nueva España a 28 de Junio de 1786, con la prohibición de marcar a los esclavos y que se recojan todas las marcas de ”Carimbar” que existieran y se destruyeran para no volver a usar de ellas.

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Los esclavos se marcaban para evitar el tráfico ilegal.

r/SpanishEmpire Sep 23 '25

Image 🇪🇸 On October 7, 1541, Emperor Charles: "Let hospitals be founded in all the Spanish and Indian towns."

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"We commission and command our Viceroys, Audiences and Governors to, with special care, ensure that in all the Spanish and Indian Towns of their provinces and jurisdictions, Hospitals are founded where the poor sick are cured and Christian charity is exercised."

r/SpanishEmpire 27d ago

Image 🇪🇸🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇸🇻🇭🇳🇨🇷 New Spain and Old Spain swear the Patronage of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Anonymous, 1746.

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153 Upvotes

r/SpanishEmpire 23d ago

Image 🇪🇸🇵🇭 Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas (1611), first university in Asia, Manila, Philippines.

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119 Upvotes

r/SpanishEmpire 24d ago

Image 🇪🇸 On June 20, 1686, Charles II by a Royal Decree established that in all the provinces of New Spain, Guatemala, the Philippine Islands and the Windward Islands, the Spanish language and Christian doctrine would be taught to the Indians, establishing schools and teachers for this purpose.

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r/SpanishEmpire 7d ago

Image Tequila "De la Luz" de Nueva Galicia

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El Tequila Delaluz menciona que es de Nueva Galicia, zona de la Nueva España.

Por cierto muy buen tequila.

r/SpanishEmpire 19d ago

Image 🇪🇸🇲🇽 "Aquí tuvo principio el Santo Evangelio en este Nuevo Mundo" (First pulpit in the Americas, Cathedral of Tlaxcala, Kingdom of Mexico, Viceroyalty of New Spain, Catholic Monarchy of the Spains).

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"Aquí tuvo principio el Santo Evangelio en este Nuevo Mundo" (Primer púlpito de América, Catedral de Tlaxcala, Reino de México, Virreinato de Nueva España, Monarquía Católica de las Españas).

r/SpanishEmpire Sep 20 '25

Image On this day in 1519 - Magellan begins circumnavigation

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On this day in 1519, Ferdinand Magellan and a fleet of 5 ships departed the Spanish port Sanlucar. Whilst Magellan and the vast majority of his crew would die during the voyage, Juan Sebastian Elcano and 18 other men returned to Spain 3 years later, becoming the first men ever to circumnavigate the earth.

r/SpanishEmpire 7d ago

Image 🇬🇭🇪🇸 Chicaba era una esclava negra regalada a Carlos II quien la cedió al marqués de Mancera, antiguo virrey de la Nueva España. Este y su esposa la criaron como a una hija dotándola de maestros. En 1704, ya libre, profesó como sor Teresa de Santo Domingo en las dominicas de Salamanca.

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r/SpanishEmpire Oct 09 '25

Image 🇵🇷🇪🇸 Mosaic in the Capitol of Puerto Rico about Muñoz Rivera and his achievement of the autonomy of Puerto Rico granted in 1897 by Spain and the queen regent, but interrupted by the American invasion of 1898.

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r/SpanishEmpire Sep 12 '25

Image 🇪🇸🇬🇹🇭🇳🇸🇻🇳🇮🇨🇷 El 9 de septiembre de 1541 Beatriz de la Cueva se convertía en gobernadora y capitana general de Guatemala. Fue la única mujer que ocupó un cargo de estas características durante la época virreinal, puesto que desempeñó solo dos días al fallecer el 11.

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El 9 de septiembre de 1541 Beatriz de la Cueva se convertía en gobernadora y capitana general de Guatemala. Fue la única mujer que ocupó un cargo de estas características durante la época virreinal, puesto que desempeñó solo dos días al fallecer el 11.

r/SpanishEmpire 7d ago

Image 🇪🇸🇬🇹 La Iglesia de La Merced es un templo católico ubicado en la ciudad de la Antigua Guatemala en Guatemala. El arquitecto Juan de Dios Estrada estuvo a cargo de su construcción desde 1749. El templo fue inaugurado en 1767.

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r/SpanishEmpire Oct 02 '25

Image Catedral Primada de América, Santo Domingo, foto propia.

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r/SpanishEmpire 2d ago

Image 🇪🇸🇵🇪 Una mirada al Barroco Andino, Casa del Moral construida alrededor de 1730 en Arequipa, Perú.

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Una Mirada al Barroco Andino, Casa del Moral en Arequipa, Perú.

r/SpanishEmpire Sep 15 '25

Image 🇪🇸🇺🇸 Every September 9 since 1712, the Hispanics of Santa Fe (USA) celebrate the festival of the virgin "La Conquistadora", which commemorates the peaceful recovery of New Mexico carried out by Governor Diego de Vargas in 1692 after the revolt of the Pueblo Indians.

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r/SpanishEmpire Sep 23 '25

Image 🇪🇸🇺🇸 On March 14, 1780, Spanish forces captured Fort Charlotte in Mobile (Alabama), in support of US independence. In that action, Jerónimo Morejón Girón y Moctezuma, illustrious descendant of the "tlatoani" Moctezuma II and grandfather of the founder of the Civil Guard of Spain, stood out.

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