Historians now generally accept that up to 300 civilians were killed directly in the bombing of Guernica, although it’s likely that many more – perhaps as many as 1,700 – died from their injuries.
On the 17th April 1492, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand – signed an agreement to support Christopher Columbus’ voyage in which he crossed the Atlantic and discovered the Americas.
The channel they found through the South American landmass was named the Strait of All Saints, but is now known as the Strait of Magellan.
The Treaty of Granada ended the Granada War and brought about the end of Islamic rule on the Iberian Peninsula.
The writer Thomas Carlyle is credited with giving the conflict its name in his 1858 biography of the Prussian King Friedrich II.
The Battle of Trafalgar secured British supremacy of the seas and saw the victorious fleet sail away without having lost a single ship.
The ship Victoria returned to Spain as the only survivor of Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet that circumnavigated the globe.
The Battle of Gravelines, the decisive battle of the Spanish Armada, took place off the coast of Flanders.
On the 26th July 1936, Adolf Hitler informed General Francisco Franco that Germany would support his Nationalist rebellion in Spain.
Often referred to as the ‘lost city of the Incas’, Machu Picchu was constructed in the middle of the 15th century but was abandoned barely a century later in 1572.
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