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Map of the Viceroyalty of New Spain
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Polity Americas

Vice-Royalty of New Spain

Attested 1530 CE – 1815 CE

Kingdom of the Spanish Empire (1521–1821)

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 8 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Vice-Royalty of New Spain appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1530 CE 8 snapshots 1815 CE
1530 CE1600 CE1650 CE1700 CE1715 CE1783 CE1800 CE1815 CE

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1810 CE – 1818 CE

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Spanish Treasure Fleet Return

1566 CE – 1790 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1530 CE and 1815 CE.

1532 CE Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire 1532 CE Battle of Cajamarca 1533 CE Cartagena de Indias 1536 CE Buenos Aires 1537 CE Callao 1537 CE Recife

And in the rest of the world

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