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On 29th April 1483, the last Guanche resistance on Gran Canaria surrendered to the Kingdom of Castile. The conquest of the island was not just another colonial acquisition — it was the template. Every method applied to the Americas nine years later had already been tested here.
On 23 April 1521, royalist forces crushed the Comuneros on a muddy field at Villalar. The revolt had almost ended the Spanish reign of Charles V before it properly began - a teenage Habsburg who spoke no Castilian, travelled with a Flemish court, and treated Spain as a bank to finance his Imperial ambitions elsewhere.