España - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 14:28:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg España - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Letter from Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, to Charles III regarding the Jesuits’ property (1773) https://historylab.es/letter-from-maria-theresa-empress-of-austria-to-charles-iii-regarding-the-jesuits-property-1773/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-from-maria-theresa-empress-of-austria-to-charles-iii-regarding-the-jesuits-property-1773 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:11 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/carta-de-maria-teresa-emperatriz-de-austria-a-carlos-iii-sobre-los-bienes-de-los-jesuitas-1773/ The Empress of Austria's claim to obtain the property of the Jesuit Society so that it would not go to the Vatican

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]]> The extinction of the Jesuits provoked a conflict between the Papacy and Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria. The dialectic and conflict of power between Church and State was reflected in the fact that Maria Theresa wanted the assets obtained from the Jesuits to go to her civil jurisdiction, to the detriment of the Vatican’s claims. The Empress argued that in Spain, France, Portugal and Naples the goods of the Society fell to the State. Charles III supported her in this request.

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]]> Dossier relating to the Royal Proclamation of Joseph I https://historylab.es/dossier-relating-to-the-royal-proclamation-of-joseph-i/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dossier-relating-to-the-royal-proclamation-of-joseph-i Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:04 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/expediente-relativo-a-la-real-proclamacion-de-jose-i/ Dossier relating to the Royal Proclamation of Joseph Bonaparte

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]]> The dossier includes:-Diligencias y documentos de tramitación propios del asunto; – Real orden comunicada por Sebastián Piñuela, secretario del Despacho de Gracia y Justicia, a Antonio Arias Mon, decano del Consejo y Cámara, y remitida al gobernador de la Sala de Alcaldes sobre la Real Proclamación de José I. – Aprobación de la Sala plena. – Royal order communicated by Sebastián Piñuela to Antonio Arias Mon and sent to the Governor of the Chamber of Mayors ordering the members of the courts to comply with the King on the occasion of his arrival. – Printed copy of a bando with the rules to be followed in the race in the town of Madrid for the Proclamation of the King. – Oficio sent by Francisco de Cabarrús Aguirre, Count of Cabarrús, informing of the delivery of 120,000 reales for distribution to the poor of the districts. – Report of the Sala plena by which Francisco Antonio de las Herrerías, treasurer of the Sala de Alcaldes and steward of the poor prisoners of the Royal Court Prison, is appointed as the person in charge of the distribution of the money destined for the poor.

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]]> Autograph of Francisco de Cabarrús Aguirre, Count of Cabarrús https://historylab.es/autograph-of-francisco-de-cabarrus-aguirre-count-of-cabarrus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=autograph-of-francisco-de-cabarrus-aguirre-count-of-cabarrus Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:04 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/autografo-de-francisco-de-cabarrus-aguirre-conde-de-cabarrus/ File promoted by the Count of Cabarrús, Minister of Finance, on the recognition, inventory and confiscation of the assets of Felipe Vallejo.

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]]> Francisco Cabarrús, Minister of Finance between 1808-1810, supported the government of José I along with other enlightened figures such as Mariano Luis de Urquijo, José Domingo de Mazarredo and Gonzalo O’Farrill. Among the numerous projects in which he took part, we can highlight that together with Miguel de Múzquiz, and with other European financiers, in 1782 he devised the project for the creation of the Banco de San Carlos – the first Spanish national bank. He created the Royal Company of the Philippines and started the Cabarrús Canal, today the Canal de Isabel II.

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]]> List of the tercios and regiments of infantry and cavalry that make up the army in the states of Flanders https://historylab.es/list-of-the-tercios-and-regiments-of-infantry-and-cavalry-that-make-up-the-army-in-the-states-of-flanders/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=list-of-the-tercios-and-regiments-of-infantry-and-cavalry-that-make-up-the-army-in-the-states-of-flanders Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:04 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/listado-de-los-tercios-y-regimientos-de-infanteria-y-caballeria-que-componen-el-ejercito-en-los-estados-de-flandes/ List of the Spanish, Italian, Irish, Irish, Scottish, English, Burgundian, Walloon and German tercios and regiments of infantry and cavalry, which make up the army in the states of [Flanders (Belgium)], with an expression of those which have been reformed.

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]]> The Army of Flanders is considered to be the army that the Spanish Monarchy established to defend the territories of the Spanish Netherlands from 1516 until the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. After the signing of this Treaty, in addition to putting an end to the War of Succession, the Monarchy lost control of its dominions in Flanders.

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]]> Manual calendar and guide for strangers in Madrid https://historylab.es/manual-calendar-and-guide-for-strangers-in-madrid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=manual-calendar-and-guide-for-strangers-in-madrid Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:51 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/kalendario-manual-y-guia-de-forasteros-en-madrid/ Manual calendar and guide of strangers in Madrid. Private calendar and guide for foreigners in Madrid. Patriotic guide of Spain. Patriotic guide of Spain. Political guide of Spain. Political guide of Spain. Political and military guide

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]]> An annual publication founded in 1722 by Luis Félix de Miraval y Spínola, who in the same year obtained the marquisate of Miraval, and Gaspar Ezpeleta, and which until 1734 was entitled Kalendario particular. From 1725 its printer was Juan Sanz, then his heirs, and from 1730, Antonio Sanz, his nephew, who in 1769 ceded the rights to the Spanish Crown in exchange for a lifelong pension. The most complete collection was acquired by the Royal Academy of History, and the one in the possession of the National Library of Spain begins in 1744, stamped with a privilege held by Antonio Sanz, printer to the King and his council. The title page states that it contains the births of the kings, queens, the seventy members of the Sacred College of Cardinals, the princes of Europe, the ministers who make up His Majesty’s courts in their kingdoms, with an indication of their private residences in Madrid. In short, it is a very complete guide to the State Administration of the ancien régime, with an indication of its executive and consultative bodies (royal councils, boards), scientific and academic institutions and other bodies and entities that the Spanish monarchy created throughout the eighteenth century (including the Royal Public Library itself), the book includes the names of the archbishops and bishops of Spain and the Indies, the composition of the courts (chancillerías and audiencias), the list of kingdoms and provinces and partidos, with the names of their governors, intendants and corregidores. It begins with the Gregorian calendar, with the saints’ calendar for each day and astronomical data, and also contains the 40-hour jubilee, as well as statistical data on marriages, births and deaths in the parishes of Madrid, and a summary of the sick in their hospitals. There is also another section on the days on which the court dresses up or the days on which the mails come and leave the General Post Office of Castile in this court, or the list of the Knights of the Golden Fleece. It will also include the values of Spanish coins and their exchange values with the most important coins in Europe. From 1768 it will be accompanied by the Estado militar de España, with its own title page, with the names of the captains and lieutenant generals of His Majesty’s Army, field marshals, brigadiers and naval officers, etc. In the 1767 edition he began to include engravings, such as those of Charles III, the Princes of Asturias and the one of the Palace of Aranjuez, and later those of Charles IV and Queen Maria Luisa, before including those of Ferdinand VII and his daughter, the young Queen Isabella II, in the 19th century. He would also print a dozen maps of Spain and plans by Tomás López and his sons. In 1774, it left the Royal Printing House of the Gazette, and included the lists of knights of Charles III, professors of the Royal Studies, ambassadors and consuls and vice-consuls of the King abroad, the chronology of the kings of Spain and the calendar of the main fairs. In 1790 it already included an index, at the end or at the beginning, and in the 19th century, the lists of the Royal Order of Noble Ladies, the economic societies and the Royal Seminary of Nobles. Its volume increased over the years, from a hundred to over four hundred pages. During the invasion of the Napoleonic army, the kalendario did not appear in 1809 or 1810, and in 1811 it left the printing house of Miguel Segovia, printer to the Royal Navy, from the Royal Island of León in Cadiz, produced by two of the editors who were in charge of the main guides for foreigners, litigants, commerce and finance, and war and the navy in Madrid, and entitled Guía patriótica de España (Patriotic Guide to Spain). It includes an introduction narrating the difficulties encountered in producing it and will consist of two parts. The first part will give an account of the legitimate government, its courts and military state, and the second of the corps and officers of the armies resident in Cadiz, as well as the list of deputies of the Cortes, accompanied by an article. Those of 1812 and 1813 were entitled Guía política de las España, and were also printed in Cádiz, the first in the office of the widow of Comes, and the second in the Imprenta Nacional. In this case it is written by a single editor, and includes patriotic ephemeris of the main events that have been taking place during the war against the French armies, and introductory articles to the list of the legislative body, list of deputies and of the court and secretariat of State of Cortes, executive power, supreme council of Regency, Council of State, ambassadors and commanders of the armies. The 1813 edition will include an addendum entitled Exércitos nacionales. On the return of Ferdinand VII, it returned to its previous title and to practically the same contents as it had published during the old regime, until during the liberal triennium, when it again changed its title and some of its contents, once again including the list of deputies to the Cortes and the new administrative institutions that the incipient liberal State was beginning to create. In 1821 it was entitled Guía de forasteros en Madrid, and in 1822 and 1823 Guía política y militar, printed at the Imprenta Nacional, formerly the Imprenta Real. For its part, the Estado militar de España, which had been published together with the kalendario, in 1821, 1822 and 1823 was entitled Estado de los ejércitos de la monarquía española (State of the Armies of the Spanish Monarchy). The calendar for 1825 is also interesting because the “purified” did not appear in the lists. This publication would continue to be published until 1837, when it was replaced by the Guía de forasteros en Madrid, which included engravings of the queen governor Maria Cristina and her daughter, Isabel II, and gave an account of the new organisation that the liberal state was creating to replace that of the old regime, the kalendario is therefore a basic source of information for understanding both the evolution of the state structure and the holders of its numerous organs and institutions, from the absolutist and enlightened monarchy of the eighteenth century to the first decades of the construction of the liberal state, with its two most influential episodes, the constituent Cortes of Cadiz and its epigone of the triennium.

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]]> Madrid Gazette https://historylab.es/madrid-gazette/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=madrid-gazette Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:51 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/gazeta-de-madrid/ Gazeta: historical collection. Provisions and news published in official newspapers from 1661 to 1959.

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]]> Gazeta is the database that offers the historical collection of the Official Gazette and contains provisions and news published in the official newspapers that preceded the current “Official State Gazette” from 1661 to 1959. The digital collection contains around 1,450,000 documents with a wide variety of news items – announcements, communications, regulations, etc. – many of them of great historical interest, constituting a rich source of information on the most important events of each period, both national and foreign. The database offers an index with the different historical periods it covers, including the reigns and main historical moments of Spain from the 17th to the 20th centuries.On the other hand, it is important to point out that since its beginning in 1661 and throughout its history, the Gaceta received different titles, and that at certain historical moments, several official newspapers coexisted under different names.

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]]> Royal decree granting the five major guilds of Madrid exclusive privilege to transport to Spain from Morocco https://historylab.es/royal-decree-granting-the-five-major-guilds-of-madrid-exclusive-privilege-to-transport-to-spain-from-morocco/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=royal-decree-granting-the-five-major-guilds-of-madrid-exclusive-privilege-to-transport-to-spain-from-morocco Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:51 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/real-cedula-concediendo-a-los-cinco-gremios-mayores-de-madrid-privilegio-exclusivo-para-transportar-a-espana-desde-marruecos/ Royal Decree granting the five major guilds of Madrid the exclusive privilege for 8 years to transport grain and other fruits produced in Morocco to Spain from the ports of Morocco

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]]> Royal Decree granting the five major guilds of Madrid the exclusive privilege for 8 years to transport grain and other fruits produced in Morocco to Spain from the ports of Morocco

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]]> Printed matter on free trade for Spanish America in the ports of Bilbao and San Sebastián https://historylab.es/printed-matter-on-free-trade-for-spanish-america-in-the-ports-of-bilbao-and-san-sebastian/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=printed-matter-on-free-trade-for-spanish-america-in-the-ports-of-bilbao-and-san-sebastian Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:51 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/impreso-sobre-el-libre-comercio-para-la-america-espanola-en-los-puertos-de-bilbao-y-san-sebastian/ Printed matter on free trade for Spanish America in the ports of Bilbao and San Sebastián, and various agreements of the General Assemblies on these issues

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]]> In 1765, Cadiz’s monopoly on trade with America was ended, granting freedom of trade to eight Spanish seaports. In 1778 the Decree of Free Trade with America was promulgated. This prompted the regions peripheral to the Court, which had invested in different types of industries to trade with America. In this context, two of the ports that benefited were Bilbao and San Sebastian.

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]]> Royal Decree of Charles III authorising the creation of a National Bank called the Bank of San Carlos https://historylab.es/royal-decree-of-charles-iii-authorising-the-creation-of-a-national-bank-called-the-bank-of-san-carlos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=royal-decree-of-charles-iii-authorising-the-creation-of-a-national-bank-called-the-bank-of-san-carlos Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:51 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/real-cedula-de-carlos-iii-autorizando-la-creacion-de-un-banco-nacional-denominado-banco-de-san-carlos/ Document relating to the foundation, 1782, of the Banco de San Carlos, the first national bank

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]]> The 18th century, even in a European context, saw the beginning of a period of marked economic protectionism. This period was marked by the need to impose heavy taxes on imports and to free the movement of goods within the country from these economic obstacles. In 1782, the Spanish monarchy created the Banco de San Carlos, the first national bank in Spain, to deal with this situation, although its activity did not alleviate the problems of the Treasury.

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]]> List of those killed and wounded on the Bahama in the Battle of Trafalgar https://historylab.es/list-of-those-killed-and-wounded-on-the-bahama-in-the-battle-of-trafalgar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=list-of-those-killed-and-wounded-on-the-bahama-in-the-battle-of-trafalgar Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:51 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/lista-de-los-muertos-y-heridos-en-el-navio-bahama-en-el-combate-de-trafalgar/ List of the dead and wounded on the ship Bahama, of which Don Tomás de Ramery was second-in-command, in the battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805

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]]> After Napoleon Bonaparte seized power in 1799, the Spanish court proved to be a weak extension of French policy. Charles IV’s latent weakness encouraged the French cause around the invasion of Portugal in 1801. A year later, France and England signed the Peace of Amiens, but their confrontation was soon to resume, and Spain became involved in this confrontation. The direct consequence of this situation was the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), where the Spanish fleet was destroyed by Admiral Nelson’s squadron. This defeat led to a further weakening of control of the overseas territories, which resulted in considerable economic collapse.

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