Columbian Viceroyalty
Viceroyalty of the Indies | |||||||||||
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| 1492–1535 | |||||||||||
| Status | Viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire | ||||||||||
| Capital | La Isabela (1494-1496) Santo Domingo (1496-) | ||||||||||
| Official languages | Spanish | ||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||
| Monarch | |||||||||||
• 1492–1504 | Isabella I & Ferdinand V (first) | ||||||||||
• 1504–1535 | Joanna I co-monarchs: Philip I (1506) Charles I (1516-) | ||||||||||
| Viceroy | |||||||||||
• 1492–1506 | Christopher Columbus | ||||||||||
• 1511–1526 | Diego Columbus | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| 1492 | |||||||||||
• Foundation of La Isabela | 1494 | ||||||||||
| 1495 | |||||||||||
• Foundation of Santo Domingo | 1502 | ||||||||||
• Conquest of Puerto Rico | 1508 | ||||||||||
• Conquest of Jamaica | 1509 | ||||||||||
• Conquest of Cuba | 1511 | ||||||||||
• Became the Viceroyalty of New Spain | 1535 | ||||||||||
| Currency | Santo Domingo real | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Dominican Republic | ||||||||||
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The Columbian Viceroyalty, Viceroyalty of the Indies or First Viceroyalty in the Indies is the name that designates the number of titles and rights granted to Christopher Columbus by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492 on the lands discovered and undiscovered, before embarking on his first trip that culminated in the colonization of the Americas.