Death of Charles II of Spain
1700 · Event
The last Spanish Habsburg — childless, chronically ill, the end-point of generations of inbreeding — dies naming a Bourbon heir, and Europe goes to war over the inheritance.
On these timelines: The Habsburg Dynasty, Master, Spain
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