State · 1479 – 1700

Hispanic Monarchy

A state of 1479 – 1700 — 221 years in Europe. It replaced Catholic Monarchy. It was replaced by Spain and Kingdom of Spain and followed by Monarchy of Spain. The atlas records 5 things within it — wars and battles 2 · unrest and atrocity 2 · famine and plague 1. Its line of rulers holds 5 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 221 years; 1479 – 1700
Rulers: 5; the Monarch of Spain
Within it: 5; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Catholic Monarchy · replaces

After it

Spain · replaced by · 1516 – present
Kingdom of Spain · replaced by
Monarchy of Spain · followed by

Rulers

The line of Monarch of Spain - the office this state names as its head of state.

died in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Charles V	1516 – 1556	40 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Philip II of Spain	1556 – 1598	42 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Philip III of Spain	1598 – 1621	23 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Philip IV of Spain	1621 – 1665	44 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Charles II of Spain	1665 – 1700	35 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1516 – 1700. Median reign 40 years. 0 of 4 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of Cross of Burgundy · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedRoyal Coat of Arms of Spain with Germanic Ornaments (1580-1621) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Heralder

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1500 – 15991 row · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Sack of Mahón · atrocity · 1535

1600 – 16994 rows · 2 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Great Plague of Seville · plague · 1647 – 1652
Corpus de Sang · unrest · 1640
Battle of Sant Esteve d'en Bas · battle · 1695
Battle of Sabana Real · battle · 1691

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood221 years
stood longer than 65% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median40 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 91% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 3 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1457 – 1722, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1590, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q766543 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.