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  1. The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height in the 19th and early 20th centuries ...

  2. Spanish Captaincies. New Spain (1524), elevated to Viceroyalty of New Spain in 1535. Peru (1528), elevated to Viceroyalty of Peru in 1542. Chile (1541), originally part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, it was split off in 1789 as a captaincy general. Guatemala (1560), raised to captaincy general in 1609. Yucatán (1564), which included Campeche and ...

  3. The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery. It achieved a global scale, controlling vast portions of the Americas, Africa, various islands in Asia and Oceania, as well as territory in other parts of ...

  4. Habsburg Spain [c] refers to Spain and the Hispanic Monarchy, also known as the Catholic Monarchy, in the period from 1516 to 1700 when it was ruled by kings from the House of Habsburg. It had territories around the world, including modern-day Spain, a piece of south-eastern France, eventually Portugal and many other lands outside the Iberian ...

  5. Spanish East Indies. Captaincy General of the Philippines Proposed since February 2024. The Spanish East Indies [b] were the colonies of the Spanish Empire in Asia and Oceania from 1565 to 1901, governed through the captaincy general in Manila for the Spanish Crown, initially reporting to Mexico City, then Madrid, then later directly reporting ...

  6. Governorate of New Andalucia (Colombia) 1510 to Alonso de Ojeda. Governorate of Castilla de Oro 1513 to Pedro Arias Dávila. Governorate of Pánuco. Its ill-defined territory may have corresponded to the Huasteca, as far north as the Pánuco River. This gobierno was absorbed by New Spain in 1534 when Nuño de Guzmán moved to Nueva Galicia.

  7. The Empresa de China ("China enterprise") was a long-time projected conquest of China by the Spanish Empire. Proposed repeatedly through the 16th century as a natural culmination of the conquest of the Philippines, it involved the invasion and assimilation of the Ming dynasty by a coalition that would include Spaniards, Portuguese, Filipinos ...