Raleigh had been found guilty of treason for his involvement in the Main Plot that sought to depose Elizabeth’s successor James I and replace him with his cousin Arabella Stuart.
Balboa’s journey involved battling with native tribes and forging a way through thick jungle, before reaching the mountain range along the Chucunaque River from where he first saw the Pacific Ocean on the morning of 25 September.
Palos de la Frontera holds the official title as the starting point of Columbus’ transatlantic voyage.
By the time it was abolished, up to 150,000 people had been tried by the Spanish Inquisition, of whom somewhere between two and five thousand were executed.
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.
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