The seventeenth century in Spain is a…

1540 CE to 1683 CE

The seventeenth century in Spain is a period of unremitting political, military, economic, and social decline.

Neither Philip III (r. 1598- 1621) nor Philip IV (r. 1621-65) is competent to give the kind of clear direction that Philip II had provided.

Responsibility passes to aristocratic advisers.

Gaspar de Guzmán, count-duke of Olivares, attempts and fails to establish the centralized administration that his famous contemporary, Cardinal Richelieu, had introduced in France.

In reaction to Guzman's bureaucratic absolutism, Catalonia revolts and is virtually annexed by France.

Portugal, with English aid, reasserts its independence in 1640, and an attempt is made to separate Andalusia from Spain.

In 1648, at the Peace of Westphalia, Spain assents to the emperor's accommodation with the German Protestants, and in 1654 it recognizes the independence of the northern Netherlands.

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Madrid Madrid Spain View →

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Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu View → Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares View → Philip II of Spain View → Philip III of Spain View → Philip IV of Spain View →

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Dutch people View → Christians, Roman Catholic View → Sardinia, Kingdom of View → Netherlands, Habsburg View → Naples, Kingdom of View → Spaniards (Latins) View → Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of View → Protestantism View → Pavia, (Spanish-ruled) Commune of View → Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of View → Iberian Union View → Portugal, Habsburg (Philippine) Kingdom of View → Netherlands, Southern (Spanish) View → Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic) View → France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View → England, (Stuart) Kingdom of View → Portugal, Bragança Kingdom of View → Catalonia, Republic, or State, of View →

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Spanish Golden Age View → Protestant Reformation View → Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival) View → Thirty Years' War View →

Commodities
Grains and produce View → Strategic metals View → Money View → Land View → Manufactured goods View →

Subjects
Faith View → Government View → Custom and Law View → Finance View → Economics View →

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