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Spanish Treasure Fleets and New World Bullion Routes (1560–1790)

Spanish Treasure Fleets and New World Bullion Routes (1560–1790)

  1. Regularized treasure convoys begin in the 1560s

    Labels: Treasure Fleets, Spain, 1560s

  2. Casa de Contratación enforces a trade monopoly

    Labels: Casa de, Seville

  3. The Spanish treasure fleet system is formalized

    Labels: Treasure Fleets, Imperial Logistics

  4. Drake’s 1585–1586 raids expose port vulnerabilities

    Labels: Francis Drake, Caribbean Ports

  5. English privateers sack Portobelo on the isthmus route

    Labels: Portobelo, English Privateers

  6. Dutch capture the silver fleet at Matanzas

    Labels: Piet Hein, Matanzas

  7. War of the Spanish Succession disrupts Atlantic bullion flows

    Labels: War of, Atlantic

  8. Anglo-Dutch attack at Vigo Bay hits a returning convoy

    Labels: Vigo Bay, Anglo-Dutch

  9. The 1715 treasure fleet is wrecked by a Florida hurricane

    Labels: 1715 Fleet, Florida

  11. The 1733 plate fleet is wrecked in the Florida Keys

    Labels: 1733 Plate, Florida Keys

  12. War of Jenkins’ Ear escalates attacks on Spanish Caribbean trade

    Labels: War of, Caribbean

  13. Free-trade decree loosens the fleet-based monopoly

    Labels: Free-Trade Decree, Charles III

  14. Treasure fleet system ends as institutions are abolished

    Labels: Treasure Fleet, Casa abolition