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Philip III of Spain, called "the Pious", was king of Spain and Portugal from September 13, 1598 until his death. He was the son of Philip II and Anne of Austria. -
Germany, Austria and Spain formed one bloc and France, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark and Norway, the other.
It began with an event known as “the defenestration of Prague”, which took place on May 23, 1618 in the kingdom of Bohemia, present-day Czechoslovakia. -
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Las observaciones del firmamento realizadas gracias al telescopio demostraron a Galileo que las objeciones a la teoría copernicana, según la cual la Tierra y los planetas giraban alrededor del Sol, carecían de fudamento. -
Consequences of the Peace of Westphalia were the acceptance of the principle of territorial sovereignty, the principle of non-interference in internal affairs and equal treatment between States regardless of their size or strength. -
Charles II was king of England, Scotland and Ireland from May 29, 1660 until his death in 1685. His father, Charles I, was executed in 1649 after the English Civil War; the monarchy was then abolished and the country became a republic under the tyranny of Oliver Cromwell, the "Lord Protector." -
Finally, Louis XIV fell into a semi-coma state on the 31st and died on the morning of September 1, four days before his 77th birthday. His body was displayed for eight days in the Hall of Mercury, so that the Sun King's subjects could pay their respects. -
The Treaty of Utrecht, British victory and Spanish defeat. Their dominion of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean expanded from the three colonies in North America to the Spanish renunciations of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, the North American Hudson Bay, Gibraltar and Menorca. -
The first edition of the Encyclopedia published by Diderot and D'Alembert in Paris, had the objective of systematizing the enormous knowledge that circulated in 18th century Europe, following an alphabetical order. -
The Seven Years' War was a series of international conflicts fought to establish control over Silesia and for colonial supremacy in North America and India. -
The First Industrial Revolution began through the use of steam power and the mechanization of production. What once produced ropes on simple spinning wheels, the mechanized version achieved eight times the volume in the same time. Steam power was already known. -
The American Revolutionary War was a war that pitted the original Thirteen British Colonies in North America against the Kingdom of Great Britain. Ending with the British defeat at the Battle of Yorktown and the signing of the Treaty of Paris. -
The storming of the Bastille prison began the French Revolution that ended the monarchy of Louis XVI and drafted the first democratic Constitution. -
La idea se le ocurrió a Edward Jenner que supuso un hito decisivo para la protección de las enfermedades infecciosas. En años posteriores, surgirían otras vacunas frente a enfermedades como la rabia, la tuberculosis o la poliomielitis. -
The Spanish War it was an armed conflict that pitted the republican forces against the Francoist forces, led by General Francisco Franco. This war left deep scars in Spanish history and society.