Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The war of the Spanish Succession
- Habsburg King Carlos II died without children
- Two rival candidates
- Bourbon candidate:Phillipe, Duke of Anjou
- Habsburg candidate: Archduke Charles
- It began in 1701
- It ended in 1713 by the Treaty of Utrech
- Early Bourbon Rule
- Felipe V
- Centralised administration in Spain following the French model
- He issued the Nueva Planta decrees because the oposition of the Crown of Aragon
- Imposed Castilian institutions throughout the country
- He didnt use the old councils so he created a new figure
- He tried to recover the lost territories in the Utrech Treaty
- Spain recovered Naples and Sicily
- Also recovered several Italian dukedoms
- Fernando VI
- 1746-1759
- Continued with Felipe V reforms and strengthened the navy
- Was Felipe V successor
- 1749
- Catastro of Ensenada was a large census and geographical
investigation