Solomon Islands does not have an embassy resident in Spain but maintains an honorary consulate in Madrid.

[2] On 7 February 1568, the ships arrived at the first of the islands encountered in the Solomon Islands archipelago, naming it Santa Isabel de la Estrella (St. Elizabeth of the Star of Bethlehem in Spanish) and which is now Santa Isabel.

[3] Álvaro de Mendaña undertook a second expedition to the Solomon Islands archipelago to colonise them and to prevent them from serving as a refuge for English pirates then attacking Spanish ships trading with the Philippines.

[4] The expedition was authorised and sponsored by the Viceroy of Peru, García Hurtado de Mendoza who also contributed military personnel, while Mendaña himself convinced merchants and settlers to participate in the company.

Spain established diplomatic relations with the nation state of Solomon Islands on 8 August 1980, but did not establish an embassy there but placed it under the jurisdiction of the Spanish Embassy in Canberra, Australia consular affairs managed by the Spanish consulate general in Sydney.