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Timeline of significant events pertaining to the Spanish Inquisition. Although the Spanish Inquisition was authorized by Pope Sixtus IV in 1478, the pope later tried to limit its powers but was opposed by the Spanish sovereigns, who sought to use the Inquisition to support their regime.
July 15, 1834. The Spanish queen regent María Cristina de Borbón issues a decree abolishing the Spanish Inquisition. Find out more about the long and bloody history of the Spanish Inquisition, which lasted several hundred years and led to the death or displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
At the start of the 20th century Henry Charles Lea published the groundbreaking History of the Inquisition in Spain. This influential work describes the Spanish Inquisition as "an engine of immense power, constantly applied for the furtherance of obscurantism, the repression of thought, the exclusion of foreign ideas and the obstruction of ...
25 Οκτ 2024 · Spanish Inquisition (1478–1834), judicial institution ostensibly established to combat heresy in Spain. In practice, the Spanish Inquisition served to consolidate power in the monarchy of the newly unified Spanish kingdom, but it achieved that end through infamously brutal methods.
17 Νοε 2017 · Learn about the Inquisition, a powerful office of the Catholic Church that persecuted heretics for hundreds of years. Explore the origins, methods and consequences of the Spanish, Roman and Torture Inquisitions.
1807: Napoleon defeats Spain, Spanish Inquisition halted. 1815: Spanish Inquisition restored by Ferdinand VII; continued debates over its existence. 1834: Spanish Inquisition officially ended. 1843: Edgar Allen Poe publishes The Pit and the Pendulum. 1908: Roman Inquisition becomes Holy Office.
The Spanish Inquisition was founded in 1478 by Ferdinand and Isabella to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and was under the direct control of the Spanish monarchy. It was not definitively abolished until 1834, during the reign of Isabella II.
