[OC] Animation des Reiches, in dem die Sonne niemals untergeht (Spanisches Reich, 1590)
Von pandabasu
[OC] Animation des Reiches, in dem die Sonne niemals untergeht (Spanisches Reich, 1590)
Von pandabasu
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A few years ago, I posted [a visualization of the 1921 British Empire night-day cycle](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/s2f4on/oc_animation_of_the_empire_on_which_the_sun_never/) to demonstrate how the sun never set on British territory.
A few folks kindly let me know that the title was originally bestowed to the Spanish Empire under Philip II and his successors. So, here I am four years later, with an updated visualization for 1590 Spain! „the sun never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shines upon one part or other of them: which, to say truly, is a beam of glory“ — Francis Bacon
Map and gif created with R following Dr. Dominic Royé’s excellent [tutorial](https://dominicroye.github.io/blog/night-day-world/). The GeoJSON file of Imperio Español 1590 is from the [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Imperio_Espa%C3%B1ol_1590.map).
I’ll never understand why some europeans think occupying other peoples lands is something to be proud of.
Edit. The replies to this are making me chuckle lol
Did the Iberian Union really control that much of India and Africa’s coastline in 1590?
In india they never had this long coastal colony. Data source is not correct
Do France now with all the islands 🙂
I understand that’s not the point of this map, but man the Spanish possessions are pretty incorrect. If this shows the Spanish as owning Patagonia where they had no presence in 1590, simply due to the Treaty of Tordesilhas, might as well show them owning practically the whole of North America and Africa too.
Portuguese showing as controlling the whole coastline from Mauritania to Djibouti, showing them owning the Eastern coastline of Madagascar, the whole Western coast of India.
I mean, at the end of this, this is more of a fictional Spanish Empire in 1590 than the real one.
The Philippines is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
This saying was based on the British empire not the Spanish one haha