Side by side
Spain and France compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
1492 — The Granada War ends and the Catholic Monarchs' realms span the peninsula
10 August 843 — The Treaty of Verdun gives Charles the Bald West Francia
- Shared indicators
- 42
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- 9
- Crossed events
- 3
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
The figures, side by side
Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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Entangled histories
3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- 2 May 1808
Dos de Mayo uprising
The people of Madrid rose against the occupying French army; the brutal repression that followed ignited the Peninsular War, Spain's war of independence against Napoleon.
War & Rupture · from the Spain chronicle · Decline, the Bourbons and the Napoleonic Crisis · Spain
- 1810s–1820s
Loss of the American mainland empire
Independence movements across Spanish America broke away during and after the Napoleonic crisis, ending Spain's three-century rule over most of the Americas.
Independence · from the Spain chronicle · Loss of Empire, Republic and Civil War · Spain
- 1814
End of the Peninsular War
Allied Spanish, British and Portuguese forces expelled the French and restored Spanish independence, but the returning Ferdinand VII reimposed absolute monarchy and revoked the 1812 constitution.
War & Rupture · from the Spain chronicle · Decline, the Bourbons and the Napoleonic Crisis · Spain