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Spanish reconquest of Oran (1732)
The Spanish reconquest of Oran was a 1732 campaign by which Philip V of Spain took Oran and Mers el Kébir from the Regency of Algiers.
Spanish Republic at War
The Spanish Republic at war (1936–1939): the Second Spanish Republic as belligerent in the Spanish Civil War against Franco's Nationalists, covering its militia army, the Largo Caballero and Negrín governments, Soviet aid, non-intervention, and defeat.
Spanish Revolution of 1936
The Spanish Revolution of 1936 (Revolución española de 1936) was the social revolution in Republican Spain during the Civil War: workers collectivized factories and land under the CNT-FAI, culminating in the Barcelona May Days of 1937.
Spanish Riding School
The Spanish Riding School, also known as the Hofreitschule, is a Vienna riding institution, traditionally dated to 1565, that trains Lipizzaner stallions in classical dressage.
Spanish Romanticism
Spanish Romanticism (Romanticismo español) was the nineteenth-century literary and artistic movement exalting feeling, nature, and individualism against neoclassical rules, peaking between 1830 and 1840 with writers like Larra, Espronceda, and Zorrilla.
Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de España (RAC), Spain's national academy of exact, physical, chemical, geological, and biological sciences; founded by royal decree in 1847 with 36 academicians, now up to 72 numerarios, publishes a quarterly journal since 1850, and is headed by its first woman president, Ana Crespo.
Spanish royal family
The Spanish royal family, also called the Royal House of Spain or House of Borbón-Anjou, is the family of King Felipe VI of Spain, who reigns under the 1978 Constitution.
Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry
The Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (Real Sociedad Española de Química), founded in 1903 as a physics and chemistry society, has promoted chemistry in Spain since 1980.
Spanish Sahara
Spanish Sahara (Sáhara Español): Spanish-ruled Western Sahara, 1884–1976; overseas province from 1958; Bu Craa phosphates; ended via 1975 Madrid Accords and Green March.
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.