Casa Asia of Madrid (Calle Mayor, 69) presents this afternoon at 7pm the round table discussion The Spanish presence in the Pacific: 125 years of its end. Free activity with prior registration at this link.
On 12 February 1899, Spanish representatives reached an agreement with Germany to sell its last overseas dominions: the archipelagos of the Carolinas and the Northern Marianas. Ceremonies were held in each of their administrative capitals (Ponhpei, Yap and Saipan) to lower the Spanish flag and symbolise the end of Spanish sovereignty.
The departure of the Spanish ships from the Northern Marianas at the end of November 1899 closed the long chapter of that “Empire where the sun never set” that turned the Pacific into a kind of “Spanish lake” in the mid-16th century.
This conference analyses the role of the Spanish colonies in the Pacific, as well as Spain’s role in the international evolution of Oceania.
Emilio de Miguel, director of the Casa Asia-Madrid Centre; David Manzano Cosano, Ramón y Cajal researcher, Department of Modern, Contemporary, American and Art History, University of Cadiz, and Rainer Buschann, professor and chair of History, California State University Channel Islands (CI) will take part in the event.
