The war of the Spanish Succession

The war of the Spanish Succession

1. Habsburg King Carlos II died without children

   • Two rival candidates
     • Bourbon candidate:Phillipe, Duke of Anjou
     • Habsburg candidate: Archduke Charles

2. It began in 1701

3. It ended in 1713 by the Treaty of Utrech

4. 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