* 1587 – Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cádiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet.

* 1740 – War of Jenkin's Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa.

Nelson was a highly experienced officer who had been blinded in one eye during fighting in Corsica in 1794 and subsequently commended for his capture of two Spanish ships of the line at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797.

Havana's inability to resist invaders was dramatically exposed in 1628, when a Dutch fleet led by Piet Heyn plundered the Spanish ships in the city's harbor.

Five of the existing thirteen settlements on the island were brutally razed by Spanish troops-many of the inhabitants fought, escaped to the jungle, or fled to the safety of passing Dutch ships.

The gallery of the church is decorated with the heraldic crests of prominent local families and is reputed to be constructed of timbers from ships captured during the defeat of the Spanish Armada, although this has not been categorically substantiated.

After the Spanish and Portuguese ports were closed to the Dutch ships, the Republic began to show interest for trading in the Atlantic region.

The arming of merchant ships with guns and soldiers to defend themselves against Spanish ships was of great importance.

Due to the Peace of Westphalia the hijacking of Spanish ships was no longer allowed.

They were the first to witness the arrival of Spanish ships sailing in the surrounding Pacific Ocean.

Meanwhile, Sir Francis Drake had undertaken a major voyage against Spanish ports and ships to the Caribbean in 1585 and 1586, and in 1587 had made a successful raid on Cadiz, destroying the Spanish fleet of war ships intended for the Enterprise of England: Philip II had decided to take the war to England.

On 12 July 1588, the Spanish Armada, a great fleet of ships, set sail for the channel, planning to ferry a Spanish invasion force under the Duke of Parma to the coast of southeast England from the Netherlands.

A combination of miscalculation, misfortune, and an attack of English fire ships on 29 July off Gravelines which dispersed the Spanish ships to the northeast defeated the Armada.

The Dutch navy had three principal tasks in the struggle against Spain: to protect Dutch merchant ships at sea, to blockade the ports of Spanish-held Flanders to damage trade and halt enemy privateering, and to fight the Spanish fleet and prevent troop landings.

By the later stages of the Eighty Years War the Dutch had switched entirely from the heavier ships still used by the English and Spanish to the lighter frigates, carrying around 40 guns and weighing around 300 tons.

Some Spanish ships were captured, and Drake used their more accurate charts.

Many of the inhabitants fought, escaped to the jungle, or fled to the safety of passing Dutch ships This Spanish action was counterproductive as English, Dutch, and French pirates were now free to establish bases on the island's abandoned northern and western coasts, where wild cattle were now plentiful and free.

This was the period when Spanish and Portuguese adventurers and missionaries first visited the country.

Over the course of three more voyages, Columbus visited the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America, claiming them for the Spanish Empire.

Never admitting that he had reached a continent previously unknown to Europeans, rather than the East Indies he had set out for, Columbus called the inhabitants of the lands he visited indios ( Spanish for " Indians ").

In 1937, Attlee visited Spain and visited the British Battalion of the International Brigades fighting in the Spanish Civil War.

President Obiang made an official visit to Madrid in March 2001, and senior Spanish Foreign Ministry officials visited Malabo during 2001 as well.

In 1600, Sebald de Weert, a Dutchman, visited them and called them the Sebald Islands ( in Spanish, " Islas Sebaldinas " or " Sebaldes "), a name which they bore on some Dutch maps into the 19th century.

It was the first time a Spanish monarch had visited Melilla in 80 years.

According to Spanish newspaper reports, UC representatives have visited Madrid, Spain to discuss the possibility of opening UC's first general campus outside of the U. S. there in 2014.

This first island to be visited by Columbus was called Guanahani by the Lucayans, and San Salvador by the Spanish.

Although Spanish and Portuguese sailors likely had visited Barbados, the Commonwealth of England was the first Europeans to establish a lasting settlement in Barbados from 1627.

In 1938 he visited Barcelona, then under attack from Spanish Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War.

The site of the city may have been first visited by Spanish conqueror Juan de Ayolas, on his way north, up the Paraguay River, looking for a passage to the mines of Alto Perú ( present-day Bolivia ).

The historian Walter Williams and others believe the early Spanish explorers encountered ancestors of the Muscogee when they visited Mississippian-culture chiefdoms in the Southeast in the mid-16th century.

The mission was founded in 1692 by the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino, founder of the Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert chain, who often visited and preached in the area.

The Spanish wrote that the first Hopi village they visited was Awatovi.

Foreigners who visited the missions remarked at how the priests ' control over the Indians appeared excessive, but necessary given the white men's isolation and numeric disadvantage .< ref > Bennett 1897b, p. 158: " In 1825 Governor Argüello wrote that the slavery of the Indians at the missions was bestial ... Governor Figueroa declared that the missions were < nowiki >'</ nowiki > entrenchments of monastic despotism < nowiki >'</ nowiki >..."</ ref > Indians were not paid wages as they were not considered free laborers and, as a result, the missions were able to profit from the goods produced by the Mission Indians to the detriment of the other Spanish and Mexican settlers of the time who could not compete economically with the advantage of the mission system.

Tamale use in the Inca Empire had been reported long before the Spanish visited the New World.

In Latin America, Spanish and Portuguese explorers often named location for the saint on whose day the place was first visited – that Saint naturally becoming the patron saint of a town or city which developed there.

Over the course of three more voyages, Columbus visited the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America, claiming them for the Spanish Empire.

Francisco Vásquez de Coronado y Luján ( 1510 – 22 September 1554 ) was a Spanish conquistador, who visited New Mexico and other parts of what are now the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542.

The Spanish foreign minister visited Israel for an official visit in May 2008.

The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constitute the U. S. Virgin Islands and the Spanish Virgin Islands.

The Spanish Empire claimed the islands by discovery in the early 16th century, but never settled them, and subsequent years saw the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish all jostling for control of the region, which became a notorious haunt for pirates.

While Portuguese and Spanish activity in the region had weakened, the English had built fortified trading posts on tiny Ai and Run islands, ten to twenty kilometres from the main Banda Islands.

A variety of people settled on the islands: pirates, refugees from the Spanish Inquisition, shipwrecked sailors, and slaves.

Following the departure of the Spanish settlers, the Falkland Islands became the domain of whalers and sealers who used the islands to shelter from the worst of the South Atlantic weather.

The Falkland Islands comprise two main islands, West Falkland and East Falkland ( in Spanish Isla Gran Malvina and Isla Soledad respectively ), and about 776 small islands.

Spain sold the islands to Germany in 1899 under the terms of the German – Spanish Treaty of that year.

In 1899, Spain sold its remaining Pacific islands — the Northern Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands and Palau — to Germany and Spanish colonial possessions were reduced to Spanish Morocco, Spanish Sahara and Spanish Guinea, all in Africa.

The Juan Fernández Islands ( Spanish: Archipiélago Juan Fernández ) are a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about off the coast of Chile, and is composed of three main volcanic islands ; Robinson Crusoe Island, Alejandro Selkirk Island and Santa Clara Island, the first two being formerly called Más Adentro and Más Afuera respectively.

* border 30px Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla and nearby islands

Spain established a colony there, and gave the islands the official title of Las Marianas in honor of Spanish Queen Mariana of Austria, widow of Philip IV of Spain.

Other expeditions by Spanish and English ships followed, with the islands ' current name stemming from British explorer John Marshall.

Recognised as part of the Spanish East Indies in 1874, the islands were sold to Germany in 1884, and became part of German New Guinea in 1885.

Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar was the first European to see the islands in 1526, commanding the ship Santa Maria de la Victoria, the only surviving vessel of the Loaísa Expedition.

The Spanish enclave of Ifni in the south became part of the new Morocco in 1969, but other Spanish possessions in the north ( Ceuta, Melilla and some small islands ) remain under Madrid's control, with Morocco viewing them as occupied territory.

In 1565 Miguel López de Legazpi arrived in Guam and took possession of the islands in the name of the Spanish Crown.