1707 in Spain

Events from the year 1707 in Spain.

Batalladealmansa

  • 1706
  • 1705
  • 1704
1707
in
Spain

  • 1708
  • 1709
  • 1710
Decades:
  • 1680s
  • 1690s
  • 1700s
  • 1710s
  • 1720s
See also:Other events of 1707
List of years in Spain

Incumbents

  • Monarch: Philip V

Events

  • April 25 - Battle of Almansa: the Bourbon army of Spain and France (with Irish mercenaries) under the French-born Englishman James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, soundly defeats the allied forces of Portugal, England, and the Dutch Republic led by the French-born Huguenot in English service Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway. Following this, Philip V of Spain promulgates the first Nueva Planta decrees, bringing the Kingdoms of Valencia and Aragon under the laws of the Crown of Castile.[1]

Births

  • May 21 - Francisco Salzillo, sculptor (d. 1783)
  • August 25 - Louis I of Spain (d. 1724)

Deaths

See also

  • War of the Spanish Succession

References

  1. Payne, Stanley G. "Chapter 16: The Eighteenth-Century Bourbon Regime in Spain". A History of Spain and Portugal. Vol. 2. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-06270-8. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
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