The Order was created in 1815 by King Ferdinand VII in honour of Queen Isabel I and is open to both Spaniards and foreigners with the intent of "rewarding the firm allegiance to Spain and the ...

The Order was created in 1815 by King Ferdinand VII in honour of Queen Isabel I and is open to both Spaniards and foreigners with the intent of "rewarding the firm allegiance to Spain and the ...

Today is the 90th day of 2025. There are 275 days left in the year. 1995: Tejano singing star Selena, 23, is shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by founder of her fan club. Yolanda Saldivar is ...

Opened in 1819 at the encouragement of Queen Maria Isabel de Braganza (King Ferdinand VII's wife), the museum contains more than 7,600 paintings and 1,000 sculptures featuring Spanish, Italian and ...

On May 25, 1810, the City of Buenos Aires decided to form its own government regardless of what authorities in Spain would order, claiming that while King Ferdinand VII was a hostage of France's ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536), the youngest child of the newly dominant Spanish rulers Ferdinand and ... the heir to the Tudor king Henry VII in order to ...

Philip IV’s ‘chief minister’, Guillaume de Nogaret, was particularly active on the king’s behalf in his bitter quarrel with Pope Boniface VIII over clerical taxation ... Fawtier and his own teacher, ...

Ferdinand II was described as the first king of Spain during ... The first monarch from the House of Tudor, Henry VII, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1485 until he died in 1509. Henry ...

one can search in vain through the interventions of the Holy See - those of Pius V, Urban VIII and Benedict XIV ... Pope Eugene IV in 1435 wrote to Bishop Ferdinand of Lanzarote in his Bull ...