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| 1513 |
| | | Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches the Pacific coast and claims the ocean for the king of Spain | |
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| 1542 |
| | | New Laws are passed in Spain, in an attempt to protect the Indians on the encomiendas of Spanish America | |
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| 1571 |
| | | The Spanish governor general, Legazpi, makes his capital at Manila,and names the surrounding islands the Philippines after Philip II | |
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| 1697 |
| | | In the Treaty of Rijswijk, Spain cedes the western half of Hispaniola to France, which names its new colony Saint-Domingue | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Spain begins to colonize the Western Sahara, subsequently known as the Spanish Sahara | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The Spanish governor in Cuba is recalled to Spain, for pioneering the concept of the concentration camp | |
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| 1912 |
| | | France and Spain agree that Spain shall become the colonial power in the north of Morocco and France in the south | |
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