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Viceroyalty of New Spain
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Facts

Also Known As Virreinato de Nueva España
Date 1535 - 1821

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Spanish viceroyalties and Portuguese territories in the Americas, 1780
map of a small land area in New Spain
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Major Events

Laws of the Indies
Transcontinental Treaty

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California
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Florida
state, United States

Key People

Bartolomé de Las Casas
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Spanish historian and missionary
Bernardo de Gálvez
Spanish colonial administrator
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Mexican leader
Nikolay Petrovich Rezanov
Russian trader
Agustín de Iturbide
Agustín de Iturbide
emperor of Mexico
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Spanish explorer
Cristóbal de Villalpando
Mexican painter
Pedro de Alvarado
Pedro de Alvarado
Spanish conquistador
Antonio de Mendoza, detail of a manuscript illumination, 16th century; in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid
Antonio de Mendoza
viceroy of New Spain
Jerónimo de Balbás
Spanish architect and sculptor
Baltasar de Echave Orio
Spanish-born painter
José María Morelos
Mexican priest and revolutionary
Oñate, Juan de
Juan de Oñate
Spanish conquistador
Victoria, Guadalupe
Guadalupe Victoria
president of Mexico
Antonio María Bucareli y Ursúa
Spanish soldier and statesman
Vicente Guerrero
Mexican leader
Juan Álvarez
president of Mexico
Bravo, portrait by an unknown artist
Nicolás Bravo
president of Mexico
Pedro de Gante
Franciscan monk
José Gálvez, marquis de la Sonora
Spanish colonial administrator