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1713
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According to the Real Academia Española (RAE) website
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the Real Academia Española (RAE) was founded on the
initiative of Juan Manuel Fernandez Pacheco, marquis de Villena in
1713 as an academy dedicated to preserving the purity of the Spanish
language.
Its website
()
also indicates that
King Felipe V approved its constitution on 1714, October 3 and
placed the Academy under Royal protection at that time.
Its website
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indicates that from 1726 -
1739, the Academy published the great work of Spanish lexicography, the
Diccionario de Autoridades.
From 1780 - 2001, the Academy also published numerous editions of the
Diccionario de la Lengua Española.
The name Real Academia Española is found as early as 1714 in
the Bibliot. Nat. España cat. in a record
with the following title:
Oracion que la Real Academia Española hizo a la Reyna...
doña Isabel Farnesio... en ocasión de darla el parabien de
su casamiento y feliz llegada a estos Reynos.
It also appears in titles published in the following years:
1715, 1725, 1735, 1750, 1759, 1771, 1780, 1783, 1789, 1791, 1796, 1801,
1815, 1818, 1820, 1823, & 1829, among others.
There are, however, publications with the shorter name
Academia Española from 1793, 1804, & 1826.
The fact that this name was used during the same period as the longer name
(with the Royal designation) suggests that the shorter name was used
informally, and was not an official name of the Academy.
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