Carlos V and Felipe II

Carlos V

Felipe II

The begining of his reign

The wars of Carlos V

Against the Ottoman Empire

Against the German Protestant princes

Against France

the king of France, Francis I, waged several wars against the Emperor

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This kingdom was surrounded by Carlos V's territories

The sultan Suleiman the Magnificent began to expand his empire

In 1529

Suleiman attacked Vienna but the city resisted

Between 1546-1547

In 1555

The Emperor fought the Protestant princes in the Schmalkaldic War, and defeated them in Mülberg

Carlos V signed the Peace of Augsburg

In 1520

In 1521

In 1517

Between 1519-1523

In 1500

This is where he lived until he went to Castilla

Carlos was born in the Flemish city of Ghent

Revolt of the Comuneros, in which the lower nobility and bourgeoisie in some cities rose up against the government

The king's representatives and the high nobility who supported him defeated the ‘comuneros' at the Battle of Villalar

the bourgeoisie and peasants rose up against the nobility in Valencia and Mallorca, in the Revolt of the Brotherhoods

A global empire

Domestic problems

Carlos V divided up the territories he inherited due to the difficulties he experienced in controlling them

Ferdinand

Felipe II

He receive Australia and the Imperial Crown

The Crown of Aragón and his Italian territories

The Low Countries and Franche-Comté

Castilla and his territories in the Americas

In 1580

The king of Portugal died and he receive his territories

Carlos V had left the Crown in financial ruin, and Felipe II had to declare the Crown bankrupt

The discovery of new silver and gold mines in the Americas

Antonio Pérez, was accused of an assassination in Castilla he was able to take refuge in Aragón, exercising his rights under the laws of this kingdom

In the Revolt of 1568

They maintained their own institutions and specific laws, that were the fueros

The policy of imposing Catholicism and discriminating against the religious minorities caused the Moriscos

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