Opened in 1819 at the encouragement of Queen Maria Isabel de Braganza (King Ferdinand VII's wife), the museum contains more than 7,600 paintings and 1,000 sculptures featuring Spanish, Italian and ...

Love has shaped history in profound ways, inspiring art, war, political shifts, and cultural transformations. While some love ...

On May 25, 1810, the City of Buenos Aires decided to form its own government regardless of what authorities in Spain would order, claiming that while King Ferdinand VII was a hostage of France's ...

Henry VIII was a Tudor king who ruled England from ... Catherine of Aragon was a Spanish princess, the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. They had raised Catherine to be the future ...

The story of Argentina, from before the Europeans arrived to the modern-day, also tells us the story of South America at the ...

Among the hail and hearty was a Portuguese navigator and explorer Pedro Ferdinand de Quiros who sailed into Australian folklore in the year 1606. He secured sponsorship from Pope Clement VIII and King ...

one can search in vain through the interventions of the Holy See - those of Pius V, Urban VIII and Benedict XIV ... Pope Eugene IV in 1435 wrote to Bishop Ferdinand of Lanzarote in his Bull ...

Shutterstock Florida Has Rich Spanish Roots Spain first claimed Florida in 1513 when Juan Ponce de León arrived, and they ...

After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June ... self-governance – exacerbated by his support for King Edward VIII in the 1936 abdication crisis – left him sidelined ...

Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has urged his old club to move for Galatasaray forward Victor Osimhen on deadline day after being left unimpressed by Rasmus Hojlund. United's ...

Rio Ferdinand has backed a potential move for Paul Pogba to return to Manchester United after he was cleared to play after his ban. Pogba was banned for up to four years after an initial ...