The Golden Age 1600-1700

 
 
-1600 Capital temporarily moves to Valladolid
 
-1605 Publication of first two parts of Cervantes’ Don Quixote
 
-1609 Felipe III orders the expulsion of the Moriscos

(Although they had converted to Christianity the Moriscos were expelled from Spain.)
 

-1609 Lope de Vega publishes poem on the art of comic drama

(Lope de Vega)
 

-1619 Construction of Plaza Mayor, Madrid
 
-1621 Low Countries war resumes after 12-year truce
 
-1622 Velásquez moves from Sevilla to Madrid and becomes court painter the following year.
 
-1625 Capture of Breda, Netherlands after one-year siege
 
-1640 Secession of Portugal from Spain, after 60 years of being joined
 
-1643 Fall of Count-Duke Olivares.  Spain defeated by France at battle of Rocroi
 
-1648 Holland achieves independence from Spain by treaty of Westphalia, ending thirty years of war
 
-1652 Spanish troops regain Catalonia, after 12-year war with France
 
-1659 Peace of the Pyrenees signed with France, Loius XIV marries Felipe IV’s daughter María Teresa, leading to the Bourbon succession in Spain

(A coin from the time of Felipe IV.)

 
-1669 Calderón de la Barca’s last work, La Estátua de Prometeo, is published
 
-1683-1684 Louis XIV attacks Catalonia and Spanish Netherlands
 
-1700 Death of Carlos II brings Hapsburg line to an end, Felipe V, the first Bourbon king ascends to the throne