Importations of mahogany into England ( and excluding those to Scotland, which were recorded separately ) reached 525 tons per annum by 1740, 3, 688 tons by 1750, and more than 30, 000 tons in 1788, the peak year of the 18th century trade.

Importations increased after 1542, when the Spanish created the Viceroyalty of New Castilla.

Importations of most Norinco firearms and ammunition into the United States were blocked during the Clinton Administration in 1993 under new trade rules when China's Most Favored Nation status was renewed.

Importations from Britain took place in 1969, and the first purebred animals were imported from New Zealand in 1971.

* Castile soap

Soap made from pure olive oil is sometimes called Castile soap or Marseille soap, and is reputed for being extra mild.

When questions arose about them playing the white man's game, the Cincinnati managers assured the public that "... they were as pure white as Castile soap.

A bar of Castile soap.

Castile soap is a name used in English-speaking countries for olive oil based soap made in a style similar to that originating in the Castile region of Spain.

The origins of Castile Soap can be traced back to The Levant where Aleppo soap makers have been making olive and laurel oil based hard soaps for millennia.

The first European soap-making factories were created in the 12th century in Spain ( Alicante, Malaga, Carthagene and Castile ) and in Italy ( Naples, Savone, Genoa, Bologna and Venice ) and then, in the middle of the 15th century, in Marseille France, giving birth to Marseille soap.

However, early soap makers in Europe did not have easy access to laurel oil and therefore dropped it from their formulations thereby creating an olive oil soap now known as Castile soap.

Then followed a period dominated by his relations with Castile and León through his wife, Urraca.

He represented the old line of the counts of Barcelona only through women, and was on his father's side descended from the House of Trastamara, the reigning House of Castile.

By means of her mother, Catherine had a stronger legitimate claim to the English throne than King Henry VII himself through the first two wives of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster: Blanche of Lancaster and the Spanish Infanta Constance of Castile.

On 1 November 1478, Sixtus published the Papal bull Exigit Sinceras Devotionis Affectus, through which the Spanish Inquisition was established in the Kingdom of Castile.

* October 20 – Joanna, second daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, heiress to Castile, marries the archduke Philip, heir through his mother to the Burgundian Netherlands, and through his father to the Holy Roman Empire.

Colonial expansion under the crown of Castile was initiated by the Spanish conquistadores and developed by the Monarchy of Spain through its administrators and missionaries.

In 1386, John left England to claim the throne of Castile, through his marriage to his second wife, Constance.

According to the treaty, all lands south of a line from Biar to Villajoyosa through Busot were reserved for Castile.

Born in Toledo, Spain, Alfonso was the eldest son of Ferdinand III of Castile and Elisabeth of Hohenstaufen, known in Spain as Beatriz de Suabia, through whom he was a cousin of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, to whom Alfonso is often compared.

In its Spanish section, the Douro crosses the great Castilian meseta and meanders through five provinces of the autonomous community of Castile and León: Soria, Burgos, Valladolid, Zamora, and Salamanca, passing through the towns of Soria, Almazán, Aranda de Duero, Tordesillas, and Zamora.

Officially he was ally of Peter of Castile, but at the end of 1365 he concluded a secret agreement with Peter IV of Aragon to allow the marauding army led by Bertrand du Guesclin and Hugh Calveley invade Castile through southern Navarre in order to depose Pedro I and supplant him with his half-brother Henry of Trastamara.

Built on the cemetery of the primitive village of Gasteiz ( which today can be accessed through the excavations ), the church of Santa Maria collapsed with the fire of 1202, and Alfonso VIII of Castile ( who had conquered the square just 2 years earlier ), ordered to rebuild the city and lift at the site of a former church that was to serve two very different purposes: to save souls and store weapons.

Royal cañada Trail through Old Castile ( Segovia, Spain )

Originally Castilian ( castellano ) referred to the language of the Kingdom of Castile, one of several northern kingdoms that spread across the Iberian Peninsula through the Middle Ages, from about the 8th to the 15th centuries.

— all loosely joined together through the institution of the Castile monarchy and the person of Philip IV.

Henry initially sought to recover territory lost to Castile by assisting the revolt of Philip, brother of Alfonso X of Castile, in 1270, but eventually declined, preferring to establish an alliance with Castile through the marriage of his son Theobald to Violant of Castile, daughter of Alfonso X.

More distantly, Haakon sought an alliance with Alfonso X of Castile, a potential next Holy Roman Emperor — chiefly as it would guarantee new supplies of grain in light of rising prices in England, and possibly giving access to Baltic grain through Norwegian control of Lübeck.

Charles had to accompany Philip to Spain to attend Philip's coronation as King of Castile but at Antwerp, Charles managed to escape.

The next secular order which is known to appear was the Order of the " Knights of the Band ", founded by the King Alfonso XI of Castile in 1332.

* December – The twelve Eleanor crosses are erected between Lincolnshire and London in England as King Edward I mourns the death of his queen consort Eleanor of Castile.

King Edward I had the crosses erected between 1291 and 1294 in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castile, marking the nightly resting-places along the route taken when her body was transported to London.

In 1989, when Plantard revised his claims about the Priory of Sion, it was stated in a 1989 issue of Vaincre: " The parchments of Blanche of Castile were in Etienne Plantard's safe-deposit box in London since November 1955 and they did not ' mention ' Dagobert, or a Dagobert II and Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair was never ' a Merovingian pretender ' to the throne of France: His lineage results from the Counts de Rhédae and by the female line of Saint Clair-sur-Epte, which has no relationship with ' Sinclair '.

The Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon never united into a single Spanish realm and were never of much account, and Southern Spain is still part of the Muslim world ( one story features a suave Muslim from Granada residing in London ).

Another of Leti's legends says that in 1604 he went to London, as a member of the embassy sent by king Philip III of Spain to king James I Stuart to sign the Treaty of Peace, the ambassador being the Constable of Castile, the later assessment being indeed true.

On 9 February 1372 Constance made a ceremonial entry into London as Queen of Castile, accompanied by Edward, the Black Prince, and an escort of English and Castilian retainers and London dignitaries.

King Alfonso XI of Castile and León had threatened to attack Gibraltar, so in 1350 Ibn Battuta joined a group of Muslims leaving Tangier with the intention of defending the port.

Santander was an important port for Castile in the later Middle Ages, and also for trade with the New World.

John I of Castile then retreated to Lisbon in May and besieged the capital, with an auxiliary fleet blocking the city's port in the river Tagus, in a severe drawback to the independence cause.

After Navarre lost San Sebastian and Hondarribia to Castile in 1200, it signed a treaty with Bayonne that made it the " port of Navarre " for nearly three centuries.

Its official name was La Casa y Audiencia de Indias, and was established in the port city of Seville, Castile ( Corona de Castilla ).

The Puerto de Indias in Seville became the principal port linking Spain to Latin America in 1503 with the monopoly created by the royal decree of Queen Isabella I of Castile ; this granted the city exclusive privileges as the port of entry and exit for all the Indies trade.