Viceroyalty of New Spain (1600)

Overview

New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain, originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain. It was one of several domains established during the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and had its capital in Mexico City. Its jurisdiction comprised a large area of the southern and western portions of North America, mainly what became Mexico and the Southwestern United States, but also California, Florida and Louisiana; Central America ; the Caribbean like Hispaniola and Martinique, and northern parts of South America, even Colombia; several Pacific archipelagos, including the Philippines and Guam. Additional Asian colonies included "Spanish Formosa", on the island of Taiwan.

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Borders & accuracy

Dashed borders mark empires whose extent we can date but whose precise frontiers are contested or undocumented.

• SOURCEreconstructed from Natural Earth country boundaries
• DETAILreconstructed-clipped-country
• SNAPSHOT1600
• POLITY TYPEstate

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

• Thirty Years' War1618–48
  World-changing · 8.0M dead
• Portuguese Conquest of Brazil1500–1750
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• American Indian Wars1500–1800
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• Qing Conquest of Ming China1618–83
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• French Wars of Religion1562–98
  World-changing · 4.0M dead
• Napoleonic Wars1803–15
  World-changing · 3.5M dead