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21 unusual facts about Charles III of Spain


Barugo, Leyte

When Charles III of Spain ordered the expulsion of the Jesuits from all Spanish dominions in 1767, the Jesuit mission on Leyte was handed over to the Augustinians.

Basque civil law

The term “Chartered Law” was used for its real first time in a letter sent by the University of Valencia staff to the King Charles the Third, with occasion of his accession to the Throne, applying for reestablishment of the Region of Valencia Civil Charter abolished by Phillip the Fifth.

Caacupé

The town was founded in 1770 by Carlos Murphy, a grenadier at the service of King Charles III of Spain, although a first settlement existed here from the 17th century.

Carolina del Príncipe, Antioquia

The name was chosen in honor of Carlos IV of Spain, then the prince in line to be heir of his father's throne.

Cathedral of San Fernando

The baptismal font, believed to be a gift from Charles III, who became King of Spain from 1759, is the oldest piece of liturgical furnishing in the cathedral.

Exaltación de la Cruz Partido

1750 - 1760 - The town of Capilla del Señor is constituted around the viceparish, fulfilling the Real Pragmatic of the King Charles III, which commanded to "all inhabitants rurally dispersed should approach a religious centre for their children to be educated in Christianity and in the first few letters".

Francisco Antonio de Echávarri

At the beginning of the reign of King Charles III (1759), Echávarri, being then president of the Audiencia, asked to be relieved of the duty because he was much occupied with the other duties of acting viceroy and captain general of the colony.

Francisco Mariano Nipho

During the reign of Charles III, he established himself as the founder of modern journalism and the first professional journalist.

John Talbot Dillon

It passed through four or five editions, was translated into German in 1782, and to a certain extent is still an authority on the condition of Spain in the reign of King Charles III.

Juan Escoiquiz

His father was a general officer and he began life as a page in the court of King Charles III.

Laoang, Northern Samar

On February 27, 1767, Charles III of Spain expelled the Society of Jesus from the Spanish Empire and all its territories including the Philippines.

Los Angeles Plaza Historic District

The plaza has large statues of three important figures in the city's history: King Carlos III of Spain, the monarch who ordered the founding of the Pueblo de Los Ángeles in 1780; Felipe de Neve, the Spanish Governor of the Californias who selected the site of the Pueblo and laid out the town; and Father Junípero Serra, founder and first head of the Alta California missions.

Mission San Xavier del Bac

Charles III of Spain banned all Jesuits from Spanish lands in the Americas in 1767 because of his distrust of the Jesuits.

Oliver Pollock

O'Reilly was later made the Governor of Louisiana by the King of Spain.

Pious Fund of the Californias

In 1768, with the expulsion of all the members of the Society from Spanish territory by the Pragmatic Sanction of King Charles III of Spain, the crown of Spain assumed the administration of the fund and retained it until Mexican independence was achieved in 1821.

Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate

The Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate was established on a bluff overlooking the San Pedro River by an Irish-born Spanish Army Colonel, Hugo Oconór (Hugh O'Conor), in 1775, for the King of Spain Charles III.

Rionegro

In 1783, Rionegro had become like a municipality, resulting in becoming the City of Santiago de Arma de Rionegro in 1786, with administrative powers under certification of King Carlos III, issued in the Palace of San Idelfonso on 25 September 1786.

Salvia sessei

The two were part of the Royal Botanical Expedition of 1777 sent by King Charles III of Spain to Guatemala and Mexico.

San Carlos, Uruguay

Its name is originated from that of the King of Spain at the time, Charles III.

Santa Teresa de Atil

On February 3, 1768, King Carlos III ordered the Jesuits forcibly expelled from New Spain and returned to the home country.

Tekna

In May 30, 1767, Mohammed ben Abdallah (Sultan of Morocco) signed a peace & commerce treaty with the Spanish King Carlos III recognizing that he doesn't have control over the Tekna tribes.


Floridablanca Ministry

The Floridablanca Ministry was a Spanish government that served between 1777 and 1792 during the reigns of Charles III of Spain and Charles IV of Spain.

José Carrillo de Albornoz, 1st Duke of Montemar

In 1731 he headed the expeditionary force that occupied the Duchy of Parma for its legal heir, Don Carlos, future King Charles III of Spain.

Maria Luisa of Spain

Maria Louisa was born in Portici, in Campania, the site of the summer palace (Reggia di Portici) of her parents, King Charles, King of Naples and Sicily and Maria Amalia of Saxony.

Palermo Cathedral

The mosaic portraying the Madonna is from the 13th century, while the two monuments on the walls, works of the early 18th century, represents King Charles III of Bourbon and Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, the latter of which was crowned here with his wife Anne Marie d'Orléans in December 1713.

Teatro di San Carlo

The opera house was commissioned by the Bourbon King Charles VII of Naples (Carlo VII in Italian).

Zenón de Somodevilla, 1st Marqués de la Ensenada

Somodevilla was also involved in the endeavors by the Spanish government to elevate the king's sons by his marriage to Elizabeth Farnese, Charles and Philip, on the thrones of Naples and Parma respectively.