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Spanish settlement of Puerto Rico
The Spanish settlement of Puerto Rico began in 1508, when Juan Ponce de León founded Caparra, the first permanent European colony on the island, under the Spanish Crown.
Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad
Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad was a Spanish first-rate ship of the line, built at Havana in 1769 and the only four-decked warship of its era.
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, also known as Partido Socialista Obrero Español or PSOE, is Spain's principal center-left social-democratic party, founded in Madrid in 1879.
Spanish Steps
The Spanish Steps (Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti) is a Baroque staircase in Rome, built between 1723 and 1726 to a design by Francesco De Sanctis.
Spanish Texas
Spanish Texas was the Spanish colonial province in what is now Texas, on New Spain's northeastern border, ruled continuously from 1716 until Mexico's independence in 1821.
Spanish Town
Spanish Town, historically St. Jago de la Vega, is a town in Jamaica. Founded by the Spanish about 1534, it was the island's capital until 1872.
Spanish transition to democracy
Spanish transition to democracy (1975–1978): Franco's death, King Juan Carlos, Adolfo Suárez, the 1976 Political Reform Law, 1977 elections, Moncloa Pacts, and the 1978 Constitution that ended Francoist dictatorship.
Spanish treasure fleet
The Spanish treasure fleet (Flota de Indias, silver or plate fleet) was Spain's escorted convoy system carrying American silver and gold home, organized 1564–1566 with New Spain and Tierra Firme fleets via Havana, dominant until decline after 1620 and famed 1715 and 1733 hurricane disasters.
Spanish Trinidad
Spanish Trinidad was the period from 1498 to 1797 during which the Caribbean island of Trinidad was a colony of the Spanish Empire, though substantial settlement began only in 1592.
Spanish West Africa
Spanish West Africa (África Occidental Española) was Spain's administrative grouping of colonies in northwest Africa, uniting Ifni, Cabo Juby, and the Sahara from 1946 to 1958.
Spanish wine
Spanish wine, from Phoenician Cádiz plantings to the world's largest vineyard (889,500 ha) and third-largest EU production. DO/DOCa classification, Rioja leadership, Tempranillo and Verdejo, export trends.
Spanish-Hebrew poetry
Spanish-Hebrew poetry (shirat Sefarad) is a revered body of Hebrew verse by Jews of medieval Spain, which flourished in Muslim al-Andalus from 950 to 1492.
Spanish-language and ethnic performer advocacy groups in American screen media
Advocacy groups for Latino and Hispanic performers in US screen media: Nosotros (1970), HOLA (1975), NALIP, NHMC/NLMC, Imagen Foundation, Latinas Acting Up, and SAG-AFTRA and DGA Latino committees, fighting underrepresentation and stereotyping.
Spanish-Portuguese boundary demarcation commissions of the Treaty of Madrid
The Spanish-Portuguese boundary demarcation commissions of the Treaty of Madrid were joint expeditions that surveyed the new colonial border in South America from 1752 to 1760.
Spanish-Portuguese War (1735–1737)
The Spanish-Portuguese War (1735–1737) was a limited colonial conflict between Spain and Portugal over Colonia do Sacramento on the Río de la Plata, ending without a decision.
Spanish-Portuguese War of 1776-1777
The Spanish-Portuguese War of 1776-1777 (Guerra hispano-portuguesa de 1776–1777) was an undeclared war between Spain and Portugal around the Río de la Plata, ending with the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
Spanish-style bullfighting
Spanish-style bullfighting, also called Spanish bullfighting or corrida de toros, is a ritualized spectacle where a matador fights a specially bred bull, usually ending in the bull's death.
Spanish–American War
Spanish–American War (1898): U.S.–Spain conflict over Cuba; USS Maine explosion, Manila Bay, Santiago; Treaty of Paris ceded Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines ($20 million), established Cuban independence; ended Spain's empire.
Spanish–American War in the Philippines
The Spanish–American War in the Philippines was the Pacific theater of the 1898 war, where Commodore Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay on 1 May.
Spanish–Cambodian War (1596–1599)
The Spanish–Cambodian War (1596–1599) was a series of Spanish interventions from the Philippines, with Portuguese allies, seeking to restore a friendly Cambodian king and Christianize the country.
Spanish–Comanche treaty of 1786
The Spanish–Comanche treaty of 1786, signed at Pecos Pueblo by Juan Bautista de Anza and chief Ecueracapa, ended Comanche raids on New Mexico in exchange for trade.
Spanish–Moro conflict
Spanish–Moro conflict: intermittent wars from 1578 to 1898 between Spanish colonial forces and the Muslim sultanates of Mindanao and Sulu; the Moros were never fully conquered or Christianized before Spain ceded the Philippines in 1898.
Spanish–Ottoman Wars
The Spanish–Ottoman Wars were the Habsburg-Spanish and Ottoman empires' struggle for Mediterranean hegemony from the 1530s to 1574, fought with galleys and corsairs, climaxing at Lepanto (1571) and ending with the 1578 truce.
Spanish–Sulu War
The Spanish–Sulu War, the sixth and final stage of the Spanish–Moro conflict, was fought between Spain and the Sultanate of Sulu from the 1851 invasion of Sulu until Spanish rule ended in 1899.
Spanking
Spanking is a form of corporal punishment in which the hand is used to slap a child on the buttocks, typically by parents for discipline.
Spanky and Our Gang
Spanky and Our Gang, an American sunshine pop and folk-rock group formed in Chicago in 1966, led by Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane; hits included "Sunday Will Never Be the Same" (number 9, 1967) and "Lazy Day."
Spanning tree
A spanning tree of a connected graph is a subgraph including every vertex that is itself a tree, connected and acyclic, and every connected graph has at least one.
Spanning tree coverage
Spanning tree coverage (STC) is a robot coverage path planning method that traces a loop around a spanning tree of grid cells, introduced by Gabriely and Rimon in 2001.
Spanning Tree Protocol
The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is an IEEE 802.1D network protocol that lets Ethernet switches block redundant links to prevent loops, invented by Radia Perlman in 1985.
Spanx
Spanx: American shapewear and apparel company founded by Sara Blakely in Atlanta on February 15, 2000 with $5,000; invented footless body-shaping pantyhose; Blackstone bought a majority stake in 2021 at a $1.2 billion valuation.