German–Spanish Treaty (1899)
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The German–Spanish Treaty of 1899, signed by the German Empire and the Kingdom of Spain, involved Spain selling the majority of its Pacific possessions not lost in the Spanish–American War to Germany for 25 million pesetas.
Handover of the Western Carolines on 3 November 1899
Spanish East Indies
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The Spanish East Indies were the colonies of the Spanish Empire in Asia and Oceania from 1565 to 1901, governed through the captaincy general in Manila for the Spanish Crown, initially reporting to Mexico City, then Madrid, then later directly reporting to Madrid after the Spanish American Wars of Independence.
Reception of the Manila galleon by the Chamorro in the Ladrones Islands, Boxer Codex (c. 1590)
Routes of early Spanish expeditions in the Philippines.
Manila, capital of the Spanish East Indies, 1899.
The Spanish Empire's "Islas Filipínas, Marianas y Carolinas" under the Spanish East Indies Captaincy General based in Manila and other formerly planned and former possessions and adjacent islands. 1858, Fragment.