On the 22nd April 1529 the Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 17 degrees east of the Moluccas.
Pity they did not consult the English, French or Dutch.
In 1451 on this date Isabelle I of Castile was born.
And in 1898 the US Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports in the Spanish -American war.
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