Initially the source was Latin, later Gascon ( a branch of Occitan ) in the northeast, Navarro-Aragonese in the southeast and Spanish in the southwest.

*** House of Bourbon – Anjou or Spanish branch ( 1700 – present )

The Bavarian prince would have been the lawful heir to the Spanish throne under Philip IV's will, and remained a far less threatening candidate than those directly in the Bourbon or Habsburg lines, despite the willingness of both Leopold I and Louis XIV to defer their claims onto a junior branch of their Houses: Leopold to his younger son, the Archduke Charles, and Louis to the Dauphin's younger son, Philip, the Duke of Anjou.

* The Congress of Honduras ( Spanish: Congreso nacional ) is the legislative branch of the government of Honduras.

* The Congress of the Argentine Nation ( Spanish: Congreso de la Nación Argentina ) is the legislative branch of the government of Argentina.

* The National Congress of Chile ( Spanish: Congreso Nacional ) is the legislative branch of the government of Chile.

* Spanish Congress of Deputies ( Spanish: Congreso de los Diputados ), the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch.

The Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon was founded by Philip V. He was born in 1683 in Versailles, the second son of the Grand Dauphin, son of Louis XIV.

Following Charles ' accession to the Spanish throne in 1759 he was required, by the Treaty of Naples of 3 October 1759, to abdicate Naples and Sicily to his third son, Ferdinand, thus initiating the branch known as the Neapolitan Bourbons.

War of the Polish Succession saw the Spanish regain Sicily and Naples as part of a personal union, which in the Treaty of Vienna were recognised as independent under a cadet branch of the Spanish Bourbons in 1738 under Charles VII.

* division or band ( sometimes called tribe, Spanish nación, rama-“ branch ”, several local groups linked by kinship, sodalities ( political, medicine, and military ) and common interest in hunting, gathering, war, peace, trade )

After the “ Placencia de Armas Co. Ltd ”; company, which swindled the Spanish Government selling useless and rather useless utility arms for Spain during the 1898 war ( also, this company, provided to Maxim outstanding and " sensitive " information that passed to his government during the conflict ), the Constructora Naval came and few years later, the Sociedad Española de Construcciones Navales, branch of Vickers in Spain were awarded, by the Spanish Government, the monopoly of the naval construction for the Spanish Navy.

At the proposed site, located approximately 26 leguas ( Spanish Leagues ) north of San Diego, 18 leagues south of San Gabriel, and half a league from the Pacific Ocean, an enramada ( arbor ) was constructed, two bronze bells were hung from the branch of a nearby tree, and a wooden cross was erected.

However, the Austrian branch claimed that Philip's grandmother had renounced the Spanish throne for herself and her descendants as part of her marriage contract.

The House of Orange-Nassau ( in Dutch: Huis van Oranje-Nassau, ), a branch of the European House of Nassau, has played a central role in the politics and government of the Netherlands — and at times in Europe — especially since William I of Orange ( also known as " William the Silent " and " Father of the Fatherland ") organized the Dutch revolt against Spanish rule, which after the Eighty Years ' War led to an independent Dutch state.

It became the Spanish branch of EADS in 1999, and was absorbed by Airbus Military in 2009.

From then, the Spanish branch of EADS is called EADS-CASA.

During the Middle Ages, possession of Arras passed to a variety of feudal rulers and fiefs, including the County of Flanders, the Duchy of Burgundy, the Spanish branch of the House of Habsburg and the French crown.

John I ( in Spanish: Juan I ) ( 24 August 1358 – 9 October 1390 ) king of the Crown of Castile, was the son of Henry II and of his wife Juana Manuel of Castile, daughter of Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena, who was a scion of a more recent branch of the royal house of Castile.

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.

What started as an elitist political movement against their colonial master, finally ended as a full-fledged civil war between pro-Independence Criollos who sought political and economic independence from Spain and royalist Criollos, who supported the continued allegiance to and permanence within the Spanish Empire of the Kingdom of Chile.

The trip ended as an embarrassing failure however as the Spanish demanded that Charles must convert to Roman Catholicism and remain in Spain for a year after the wedding as hostage to ensure England's compliance with all the terms of the treaty.

Almagro then dispatched Gómez de Alvarado along with 100 horsemen and 100 foot to continue the exploration, which ended in the confluence of the Ñuble and Itata rivers where the Battle of Reinohuelén between the Spanish and hostile Mapuche Indians forced them to turn back north.

The decline culminated in the War of Spanish Succession, which ended with the relegation of Spain to the status of a second rate western power, although it remained, with Russia, the leading colonial power of the 18th century.

The war ended in a nationalist dictatorship, led by Francisco Franco, which controlled the Spanish government until 1975.

Spanish rule in Morocco ended in 1967.

In 1684 the French and Spanish signed the Treaty of Ratisbon that included provisions to suppress the actions of the Caribbean privateers, which effectively ended the era of the buccaneers on Tortuga, many being employed by the French Crown to hunt down any of their former comrades who preferred to turn outright pirate.

An attempted Jacobite invasion with Spanish assistance in 1719 met with little support from the clans and ended at the Battle of Glen Shiel.

In August 1898, Hay was named by President McKinley as Secretary of State and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris of 1898, which ended the Spanish – American War.

Morocco denies these claims and maintains that the Spanish presence on or near its coast is a remnant of the colonial past which should be ended.

Treaty of Utrecht of 1713, which ended the Spanish War of Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), had an additional clause ( the Asiento ) that granted Britain ( among other things ) the exclusive rights over the shipment of captured Africans across the Atlantic.

Spanish rule over the island, which nominally began in 1498, ended when the final Spanish Royal Governor, Don José Maria Chacón surrendered the island to a British fleet of 18 warships under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby on 18 February 1797.

* November 30 – Health officials declare that the global " Spanish " flu pandemic has ended.

Although the French secured control of Spain and its colonies for a grandson of Louis XIV, the Austrians also ended up making significant gains in Western Europe, including the former Spanish Netherlands ( now called the Austrian Netherlands, including most of modern Belgium ), the Duchy of Milan in Northern Italy, and Naples and Sardinia in Southern Italy.

The War of the Spanish Succession ended in 1714, but some privateers were slow to get the news, or reluctant to accept it, and slipped into piracy.

# The Quadruple Alliance of 1718 was an alliance among Austria, France, the Dutch Republic and Great Britain-aimed at revising ( principally at Spain's expense ) the treaties which ended the War of the Spanish Succession.

When Spain failed to maintain the continental system, the uneasy Spanish alliance with France ended in all but name.

Spain's loss of these last territories politically ended Spanish colonization in America.

Spanish possession and rule of its remaining colonies in the Americas ended in that year with its ownership transfer to the United States.

Although a Spanish force that set out to destroy Mikosuki got lost in the swamps, a second attempt to take San Marcos ended in disaster.

Had they managed to do this, the battle would have ended indecisively and with the Spanish fleet running for Cádiz.

During his reign, he ended the Spanish Inquisition, partly because Napoleon was at odds with Pope Pius VII at the time.