There has not been a monarch known as Alphonso or Alfonso I of Spain, the first king of that name of the unified Spain being Alfonso XII of Spain ( 1874 – 1885 ).

In the 16th century, Christian missionaries from Spain and Portugal first encountered indigenous peoples using ayahuasca in South America ; their earliest reports described it as the work of the devil.

During the later part of first millennium BC the use of brass spread across a wide geographical area from Britain and Spain in the west to Iran, and India in the east.

However, the Luftwaffe also provided volunteers to Spain to test both tactics and aircraft in combat, including the first combat use of the Stuka.

The first four films are historical dramas set, respectively, in the time of Christ, the U. S. Civil War, 16th-century Spain, and the late 19th-century South — the latter a fictionalized treatment of the life of Methodist evangelist, Robert Sayers Sheffey.

In Wyndham Lewis's The Wild Body ( 1927 ) the protagonist, Ker-Orr, in the first story, ' A Soldier of Humour ', takes the train from Paris and stays in the town of Bayonne before passing through into Spain.

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

In 1992 the Blue Angels deployed for a month-long European tour, their first in 19 years, conducting shows in Sweden, Finland, Russia ( the first foreign flight demonstration team to perform there ), Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain.

In 1511, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar set out from Hispaniola to form the first Spanish settlement in Cuba, with orders from Spain to conquer the island.

* Infante Carlos of Spain, Count of Molina ( 1788 – 1855 ), first Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain ( as Charles V )

Although there has been an old tradition and like for making census in Spain, the oldest ones dating back to the 12th century ( by Alfonso VII of the Kingdom of Castile ), the first modern census was carried out in 1768 by Conde de Aranda, under the reign of Carlos III.

* French group, under which they also included the countries that codified their law either in 19th or in the first half of the 20th century, using the Napoleonic code civil of year 1804 as a model ; this includes countries and jurisdictions such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, Louisiana, states of South America ( such as Brazil ), Quebec, Santa Lucia, Romania, the Ionian Islands, Egypt, and Lebanon

In 1510, the first sizable shipment, consisting of 250 Black Ladinos, arrived in Hispaniola from Spain.

As Part Two begins, it is assumed that the literate classes of Spain have all read the first part of the history of Don Quixote and his squire.

In 1894 and 1895 he filed patents and addenda in various countries for his Diesel engine ; the first patents were issued in Spain ( No. 16, 654 ), France ( No. 243, 531 ) and Belgium ( No. 113, 139 ) in December 1894, and in Germany ( No. 86, 633 ) in 1895 and the United States ( No. 608, 845 ) in 1898.

The largest success for the WIC in its history was the seizure of the Spanish silver fleet, which carried silver from Spanish colonies to Spain, by Piet Heyn in 1628 ; privateering was at first the most profitable activity.

Indeed, many years after St. Dominic reacted to the Cathars, the first Grand Inquistor of Spain, Tomás de Torquemada, would be drawn from the Dominican order.

Ecuador's military history dates far back to its first attempt to secure freedom from Spain in 1811.

The first, " The Fight for Freedom ", was based on film from a Spanish government documentary Spain and the Fight for Freedom.

Under Ron Greenwood they managed to qualify for the 1982 World Cup in Spain ( the first time competitively since 1962 ), but were eliminated from a second qualifying round comprising further group matches without losing a game all tournament.

Pinus pinaster is widely planted for timber in its native area, being one of the most important trees in forestry in France, Spain and Portugal.

Banderas was born José Antonio Domínguez Banderas in Málaga, Andalucía, Spain, on 10 August 1960, to Ana Banderas, a school teacher, and José Domínguez, a police officer in the Guardia Civil.

In Spain the use of school uniforms is not compulsory in the public school at any stage.

The troubadour school or tradition began in the late 11th century in Occitania, but it subsequently spread into Italy, Spain, and even Greece.

The school of medicine was founded perhaps by a graduate of the Muslim Spain medical schools ; it is certain that, as early as 1137, there were excellent physicians at Montpellier.

Díaz moved to Spain after graduating from school and he worked with a group that was widely successful, La Pandilla, which had 4 boys and 1 girl ( Mariblanca, now a Veterinarian in her home country ), but after the La Pandilla members grew up, he moved back to Puerto Rico, and created Menudo.

The breed also enjoyed considerable success in Spain as a favorite of the Infantas, and painters of the Spanish school often included them in their works.

In a speech delivered in Spain he said that only immigrants with “ something to offer ” should be allowed into the country and that too often foreign workers purporting to be skilled take low-skilled jobs that could be occupied by British school leavers.

An active school of philosophers in Spain, including the noted commentator Averroes ( 1126-1198 AD ) explicitly rejected the thought of al-Ghazali and turned to an extensive evaluation of the thought of Aristotle.

A more pro-Spanish historiographical school emerged as a reaction, especially within Spain, but also in the Americas.

When he was four, his family moved from Cuba to Valencia, Spain, but two years later they returned to the island where they enrolled José at a local public school, in the Santa Clara neighborhood where his father worked as a prison guard.

La Escuela Moderna ( Spanish for " The Modern School ") was a progressive school that existed briefly at the start of the 20th century in Catalonia ( Spain ).

Spain had compelled the aborigines to send their children to school ; Germany gave full liberty in this regard, and the people consequently began to neglect school as well as church.

At the beginning the 19th century, the school became one of New Spain ’ s main centers of learning and academia, producing scholars such as a Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, José Ma.

The appointment of Mengs in 1749 as first painter to Frederick Augustus, elector of Saxony, did not prevent his spending much time in Rome, where he had married Margarita Guazzi who had sat for him as a model in 1748, and abjured the Protestant faith, and where he became in 1754 director of the Vatican school of painting, nor did this hinder him on two occasions from obeying the call of Charles III of Spain to Madrid.

Severino López is considered the initiator in Cuba of the guitar school founded by Francisco Tárrega in Spain.

One school is the Academy School in the Balearic Islands, which is a member of the National Association of British Schools in Spain.

* Jesús Huerta de Soto, economist of the Austrian school, born in Spain

( English: Joan Agnes of the Cross ) ( 12 November 1651 – 17 April 1695 ), was a self-taught scholar and poet of the Baroque school, and nun of New Spain.

-According to an EdUniversal ranking from 2011, the school is " universal " ( highest grade ) and ranks as the 24th most influential business school worldwide, right behind LSE ( 21st ), Cornell ( 22nd ) and NYU ( 23rd ) but ahead of University of Toronto ( Rotman, 25th ), IESE in Spain ( 25th ), Northwestern University ( Kellogg, 28th ), University of Chicago ( Booth, 33rd ), all but one Canadian school, and ahead of other international schools like ESSEC, ESCP-Europe, IE Business School, Dartmouth ( Tuck ) and even the prestigious University of Pennsylvania ( Wharton ).

The Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas ( ESADE ) is a college and graduate school associated with the Ramon Llull University located in Barcelona, Spain.