Kingdom of Sicily (Spain)

This article is about the specific polity Kingdom of Sicily (Spain) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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The Kingdom of Sicily was controlled by Aragon from 1409, and from 1479 it was ruled by the Personal Union of Aragon with Castile.

Establishment

January 1479: Personal Union of Aragon and Castile.

Chronology

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1. Events

January 1517: King Charles I, known as Emperor Charles V, in 1516 united all the kingdoms on the Iberian peninsula, save the Kingdoms of Portugal and the Algarve. At the same time his territories also encompassed the Habsburg domains in central Europe and in the Low Countries.

January 1531: Malta was ruled by the Order of Saint John as a vassal state of the Kingdom of Sicily from 1530.

January 1556: Charles V, who was King of Spain and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, left the Spanish Empire to his son Philip and the Austrian Lands to his brother Ferdinand I.

April 1713: From 1713 until 1720, the Kingdom of Sicily was ruled briefly by the House of Savoy, which had received it by the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht.

Disestablishment

April 1713: From 1713 until 1720, the Kingdom of Sicily was ruled briefly by the House of Savoy, which had received it by the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht.