[Menydh]

2 January, 1492. Conquest of Granada
The Christian armies of King Ferran of Aragon and Queen Isabel of Castilla enter the city of Granada. The Nasri Kingdom of Granada comes to an end, and with it the presence of Muslims in Spain and the end of the Reconquista initiated 700 years earlier.

16 July, 1212. Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
An army of 100,000-150,000 Almohads defeated by a 60,000-80,000 joint army of most Hispanic kingdoms and Occitans, led by kings Alfonso VIII of Castille, Sancho VIII of Navarra, and Pere II of Aragon and Catalonia, and the bishops of Narbona, Bordéus and Toledo. The "Ultramountain" crusaders (Franks, Germanics, etc.) had abandoned and returned home days before.
It marked the beginning of the end for Muslims in al-Andalus.

6 September 1634. Battle of Nördlingen
An Imperial army of Spanish Tercios and their Bavarian and Austrian allies, led by Cardinal-Infante don Fernando, crushed a bigger coalition army of Swedish and German Lutherans, who lost between 12,000 and 14,000 men.

12 September 1213. Battle of Muret (mourning day)
King Pere II of Aragon and Catalonia and the Occitan Count Raimon VI of Tolosa face the army of the infamous crusaders led by Simon de Monfort which were seizing the lands of Occitania. King Pere dies in battle, and the battle is lost and with it dies the age of the troubadours and corteous love, and the finest medieval culture is destroyed.

7 October, 1517. Battle of Lepanto
Navy battle in which an allied Armada led by Spain, together with the Genoese, Venetian, the Papacy, Maltese, Neapolitan and Sicilian galleys, and the Spanish Tercios (the first official marines in history), defeat the mighty Ottoman in Lepanto, off the coasts of Greece. The Armada was led in theory by Juan de Austria (then a child), and effectively by Lluís de Requesens, Joan de Cardona, Álvaro de Bazán, Gian Andrea Doria and Marco Antonio Colonna.