Although European colonists, beginning with the Spanish, initially enslaved natives, the Dominican priest Bartolomé de las Casas helped convince the Spanish government to enact the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in 1542 ; Spain weakened these laws by 1545.

Spain's administration of its colonies in the Americas was divided into the Viceroyalty of New Spain 1535 ( capital, México City ), and the Viceroyalty of Peru 1542 ( capital, Lima ).

Mérida was founded in 1542 by Francisco de Montejo y León (" el Mozo ") and named after the town of Mérida in Extremadura, Spain.

He explored the surrounding region and claimed it in the name of Spain in 1542.

The first European to encounter the area was Portuguese explorer Joao Rodriguez Cabrilho, who claimed it for Spain in 1542.

On 27 June 1542, Cabrillo set out from Navidad ( in Jalisco ) in New Spain with three ships: the 200-ton galleon and flagship San Salvador, the ship La Victoria ( c. 100 tons ), and the lateen-rigged, twenty-six oared " fragata " or " bergantin " San Miguel.

But dislike of the Castilians was soon effaced in the pride of sharing in the glory of the Emperor Charles I of Spain, and in 1542, when Perpignan was besieged by the dauphin, the inhabitants supported their monarch, earning that city the royal sobriquet, " Most Faithful City.

His feast day is November 24 on the local ecclesiastical calendar of Spain, the day on which Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovered the bay in 1542 which would be known as San Pedro.

The New Laws, in Spanish Leyes Nuevas, issued November 20, 1542 by King Charles V of Spain regarding the Spanish colonization of the Americas, are also known as the " New Laws of the Indies for the Good Treatment and Preservation of the Indians ", and were created to prevent the exploitation of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas by the Encomenderos ( large enterprise landowners ) by strictly limiting their power and dominion.

Category: 1542 in Spain

The western coast of North America had been partially explored in 1542 by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo who sailed for the Spanish, but as England was in conflict with Spain, Drake decided to claim the region.

Meanwhile, Las Casas had gone to Spain and obtained from the Junta of Valladolid ( 1541 – 1542 ) the approbation of the celebrated " Nuevas Leyes ".

King Charles V of Spain issued the New Laws ( in Spanish, Leyes Nuevas, or " New Laws of the Indies for the Good Treatment and Preservation of the Indians ") on November 20, 1542.

Another of Pedrarias's daughters, known as Isabel Arias and / or Isabel de Bobadilla, to remember the female ancestors of the family, born when he was elderly, was married at Valladolid, Spain, 1537, to his loyal lieutenant, the successful conquistador at Florida and Mississippi, the Governor of Cuba and ill fated explorer Hernando de Soto, ( 1500-Mississippi river, 1542 ).

After returning to Spain, Cabeza de Vaca was notable for writing about the ill-fated expedition in his La Relacion ( The Report ), published in 1542 ( in later editions, it was renamed Naufragios ).

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies () is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542 ( published in 1552 ) about the mistreatment of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then Prince Philip II of Spain.

The Battle of Ceresole ( or Cérisoles ) was an encounter between a French army and the combined forces of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire during the Italian War of 1542 – 46.

The first Argentine historians, such as Bartolomé Mitre, attributed the free trade to the The Representation of the Hacendados economic report by Mariano Moreno, but is currently considered the result of a general negotiation between Britain and Spain, as reflected in the Apodaca-Canning treaty of 1809.

An international jury, chaired by Professor Daniel Roche ( Collège de France, Paris ), and formed by Professors Jean Boutier and Alain Dewerpe ( France ), Peter Jones ( UK ), Marcello Verga ( Italy ) and Bartolomé Yun Casalila ( Spain ), gave the first prize to Italian historian Beatrice Palmero.

In 1552, the Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas published his famous Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias ( A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies ), an account of the abuses that accompanied the colonization of New Spain, and especially the island of Hispaniola ( now home to the Dominican Republic and Haiti ).

He was appointed by King Philip II of Spain, who chose him as Captain General, and his brother Bartolomé Menéndez as Admiral, of the Fleet of the Indies.

< table align =" right ">< tr >< td align =" center "> right </ td ></ tr ></ table > San Bartolomé ( Spanish meaning Saint Bartholomew ) is a village and ayuntamiento ( county ) in the Canary Islands ( Spain ), belonging to the Province of Las Palmas.

A greater distribution resulted from the large quantity brought over by the Jesuit Bartolomé Tafur, who, like Cobo, came to Spain in 1643 while procurator of the Peruvian province of his order, proceeded through France ( there is an alleged cure of the young Louis XIV, when still dauphin, effected by Father Tafur by means of Peruvian bark ), and thence to Italy as far as Rome.

( This was the complete opposite to what Bartolomé de Las Casas, another Spanish priest, did years later by defending the native's rights in works he published and in visits to Spain to inform King Philip II of the abuses committed against the local natives by the Conquistadors.

The process was invented by Bartolomé de Medina in Pachuca, New Spain ( Mexico ), in 1554.

Bartolomé de Medina initially focused his attentions on learning about new smelting methods from smelters in Spain.

Saint Roderick | Roderick, a priest of Cabra, Spain | Cabra, executed at Córdoba, by Bartolomé Esteban Perez Murillo.

Fataga is a village in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana on the island of Gran Canaria ( Canary Islands, Spain ).

Bartolomé Ferrelo, also known as Bartolomé Ferrer, born 1499 in Bilbao Spain, died 1550 in Mexico.

* 1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.

It is located at 92, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade ) in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

During his reign, Spain lost its last colonies in the Americas ( Cuba and Puerto Rico ) and the Philippines ; fought and, after several setbacks, won a war in Morocco ; witnessed the start of the Spanish Generation of 1927, and endured the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.

Nevertheless, he sent his son, Juan de Borbon, Count of Barcelona, to enter Spain in 1936 and participate in the uprising.

* Infanta Maria Cristina Teresa Alejandra Guadalupe Maria de la Concepción Vittoria Eugenia of Spain ( 1911 – 1996 ), who married Enrico Eugenio Marone-Cinzano, 1st Conte Marone-Cinzano.

** La Diada de Sant Jordi ( Catalonia, Spain )

* 1818 – In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement – led by Bernardo O ' Higgins and José de San Martín – win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2, 000 Spaniards and 1, 000 Chilean patriots dead.

Population of Alicante ( 1900-2011, Instituto Nacional de Estadística ( Spain ) | INE data )

Little is known of the family with certainty ; the Chambers Biographical Dictionary records that they arrived in Spain in the 8th century but the name is familiar from the romance by Ginés Perez de Hita, Guerras civiles de Granada, which celebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the rival family of the Zegris, and the cruel treatment to which the former were subjected.

* c. 1283: The game of astronomical tables, from Libro de los juegos Alfonso X of Castile in Spain commissioned Libro de ajedrez, dados, y tablas ( Libro de los Juegos ( The Book of Games )) translated into Castilian from Arabic and added illustrations with the goal of perfecting the work.

* Cisplatine War ( 1825 – 1828 ): Armed conflict over an area known as Banda Oriental or " Eastern Shore " between the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and Empire of Brazil in the aftermath of the United Provinces ' emancipation from Spain.

Other such breast mountains are Mount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border, Beinn Chìochan and the Maiden Paps in Scotland, the " Bundok ng Susong Dalaga " ( Maiden's breast mountains ) in Talim Island, Philippines, the twin hills known as the Paps of Anu ( Dá Chích Anann or the breasts of Anu ), near Killarney in Ireland, the 2, 086 m high Tetica de Bacares or " La Tetica " in the Sierra de Los Filabres, Spain, and Khao Nom Sao in Thailand, Cerro Las Tetas in Puerto Rico and the Breasts of Aphrodite in Mykonos, among many others.

Former coat of arms of Abella de la Conca, Lleida, Spain

The Gare de Bayonne is on the high-speed TGV line between Paris and Hendaye for connections with Spain.

* Festival Internacional do Mundo Celta de Ortigueira ( Ortigueira, Galicia ) ( Spain )

* Festival Intercéltico de Avilés ( Avilés, Asturies, Spain )