Portal de Turismo de Castilla y León

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February 13, 2025

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The Salamanca City Council and the Castilian and Leonese Institute of Language are organizing on Thursday, February 13, at 7:30 p.m., at the Salamanca Public Library - Casa de las Conchas, the conference The end of the Spanish Empire in the Pacific (1896-1898) , given by the Madrid philologist and writer José Enrique Gil-Delgado, a teacher specialized in language teaching and author of novels, plays, poetry and other types of stories.

In his presentation, Gil-Delgado will focus on the political changes that took place in Spain during the last third of the 19th century, which generated instability not only in the Iberian Peninsula, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, but also in the so-called Spanish overseas provinces: Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, the Island of Guam, the Marianas and the Carolinas. In his presentation, which focuses on the period (1875 to 1900) in the Spanish provinces of the Pacific, he will give special attention to the Philippine Islands, originally called the Archipelago of San Lázaro by Magellan and his crew, when they arrived in the area looking for the Spice Islands.

The author will discuss its history, geography, political and religious organization, gastronomy, languages, the presence of Spanish in the administration, philately and numismatics, the first secessionist movements (the Katipunan) and the three important military historical milestones that concluded with the Treaty of Paris (December 10, 1898): the siege of Novaliches, the siege of Báler and the battle of Cavite, which led to the United States taking possession of the archipelago on May 1, 1898. He will mention a geographical and political curiosity related to the small archipelagos in the Pacific that, because they were not mentioned in the Treaty of Paris, in theory, as of today, would belong to Spain.

Event website : https://www.ilcyl.com/