King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_V_of_Spain" id="mwfg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Philip V of Spain">Philip V of Spain</a> promulgates the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueva_Planta_decrees" id="mwfw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nueva Planta decrees">Nueva Planta decree</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Catalonia" id="mwgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Principality of Catalonia">Principality of Catalonia</a>, abolishing the Catalan institutions and most of its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_constitutions" id="mwgQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Catalan constitutions">legislation</a>, being replaced by those of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_of_Castile" id="mwgg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Crown of Castile">Castile</a>, thus putting an end to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia" id="mwgw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Catalonia">Catalonia</a> as a separate political entity and becoming a province of the new French-style <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Spain_(1700–1808)" id="mwhA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="History of Spain (1700–1808)">Kingdom of Spain</a>.<sup about="#mwt81" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_16#cite_note-13" id="mwhQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwhg">[13]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"><cite about="#mwt78" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFElliott2009">Elliott, John H. (2009). <i id="mwB_Y">España, Europa y el mundo de Ultramar (1500-1800)</i>. Madrid: Taurus. pp.<span id="mwB_c" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>50–51. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB_g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB_k" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-84-306-0780-8" id="mwB_o" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-84-306-0780-8"><bdi id="mwB_s">978-84-306-0780-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt78" class="Z3988" id="mwB_w" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Espa%C3%B1a%2C+Europa+y+el+mundo+de+Ultramar+%281500-1800%29&amp;rft.place=Madrid&amp;rft.pages=50-51&amp;rft.pub=Taurus&amp;rft.date=2009&amp;rft.isbn=978-84-306-0780-8&amp;rft.aulast=Elliott&amp;rft.aufirst=John+H.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+16"></span></span>