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2000 BCE
Kingdom of Tartessian
It was the first state of the Iberian Peninsula. -
800 BCE
Phoenician, Greek and Carthaginian colonizations.
They come to the peninsula with the intention of trading. -
400 BCE
Disappearance of tarthessians
The references to Tartessos as a kingdom disappear and the texts begin to name the Turdetian zone. -
264 BCE
First punic war
Rome seizes the first Carthaginian possessions -
19 BCE
Cantabrian-Asturian wars
Culminated the Roman conquest led by Augusto. -
Period: 18 BCE to 200
Hispania during the high empire.
Rome consolidated its dominion over one of the territories of its empire that brought it the greatest wealth. -
Period: 200 to 300
Crisis and Under Empire
This crisis was very serious and weakened the Roman state. -
380
Spread of christianity
The definitive implantation of Christianity took place after the edict of Thessalonia of the emperor Theodisius I. -
621
Visigodo Kingdom in Hispania
The Visigoths recover expelled territories. -
711
Muslim conquest; independent emirate of damascus
The governor Musa together with Tariq begin the conquest. -
718
Birth of astur-leones kingdom.
It was the first nucleus of resistance to Islam. -
722
Battle of Covadonga
Between the Asturians and troops of Al Andalus -
Period: 756 to 929
Independent Umayyad Emirate of Baghdad
Proclaimed emir Abderraman I. -
Period: 929 to 1031
Caliphate of Córdoba
Abdrraman III pacified the terrain by reestablishing royal authority. -
Period: 1000 to 1200
Expansion of Christian nuclei.
The advance was developed in a series of stages that coincide with the occupation of the valleys of the great peninsular rivers and the Mediterranean coast. -
Period: 1031 to 1212
The kingdoms of taifas
It gave rise to the appearance of scores of independent states called taifas. -
1212
Battle of the navas de Tolosa
It is a very tough defeat since it opens the doors of the southern territories to the Christian kings. -
Period: 1238 to 1492
The Nasrid kingdom of Granada
The Nasrid used diplomacy with enormous skill and militarily supported Castilla against other kingdoms. -
1474
The Castilian civil war
Succession problem between Juana la Beltraneja and Isabel I. -
1475
The dynastic union between Castile and Aragon.
Isabel reached an agreement with Fernando with the Concordia de Segovia. -
1492
End of the Reconquest
Boabdil the last monarch, gave the city to Castile. -
Dec 10, 1492
The discovery of America
In this year, Cristopher Columbus arrives to America by mistake. -
1494
The end of the Portugal-Spain conflict.
This conflict finished with the Tordesillas treaty. -
1494
The wars of Italy.
An anti-French alliance (The Holy League) formed by the RRCC, the Pope, Venice and the German Emperor is created. -
1502
The incorporation of the Canary Islands.
Despite the strong resistance of the indigenous people, Gran Canaria, Tenerife and La Palma are occupied. -
1505
The laws of bull.
The legislative work of the RRCC was compiled in the Laws of Toro after the death of Isabel. -
1506
The inheritance problem.
After the death of Isabel, Fernando recognizes the inability to govern of his daughter Juana la Loca, which made her husband Felipe King of Catstilla. -
Period: 1516 to 1556
El imperio de Carlos I de España.
From Isabel de Catilla he received the Crown of Castile, the Canary Islands, Melilla and Las Indias. From Ferdinand of Aragon he received the Crown of Aragon, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia, from Mary of Burgundy, the Netherlands, Franco Duchy and the title of Count and from Maximilian I of Austria, The Habsburg states, rights over Milan and rights to the title imperial. -
1519
Expansion of Magallanes and Elcano.
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1521
the rebellion of the Castilian communities
The defeat of illalar and the death of the leaders Padilla, Bravo and Maldonado represented the triumph of absolutism in Castile. -
1523
The war of the germanías
I face the urban bourgeoisie against the peasant nobility, producing the nobility-monarchy alliance. -
1533
Conquest of Peru.
Francisco Pizarro in union with Diego Almagro. -
1541
Conflicts with the Turkish-Ottoman Empire.
The origin is found in the policy of Sultan Suleiman to endow his empire with new limits of expansion. -
1544
Wars with France
Crepy's peace confirmed Spanish supremacy in Italy. -
Period: 1556 to
the Hispanic hegemony of Felipe II
The defense of Catholicism and Spanish hegemony were worth a great deal of Europe: his enemies tried to defame him and thus the Black legend arose, as an evil man -
1567
The rebellion of the Granada Moors
Because of the pragmatics against their customs and froas of life. -
Fighting England.
They supported all the enemies of Spain. Felipe II planned his invasion with the Invincible Armada. But it failed. -
Philip III
Philip inherit the crown -
El Quijote
Cervantes publishes Don Quixote in 1605 -
Expulsion of the moriscos
It was due to their customs and demographic growth -
Period: to
12 years truce
Peace policity with France England and Holland -
Period: to
30 years war
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Philip IV
He left the reign in the hands of the Count-Duke of Olivares. -
Arms union project
The objective of the count duke de olivares groves was to reaffirm the other peninsular kingdom of castile. -
Period: to
Sublebation of catalonia
The Olivares centralism conduce to sublebation of catalonia -
Velázquez
Its pictorial summit stands out with Las Meninas. -
Charles II
He was the last king of Austrias hause. -
The war of succession
The last Austrian monarch died without issue. -
Entry of the Bourbons to the throne.
King Philip V was proclaimed. -
Treaty of Utrecht
The war ended with the treaty of utretch -
The War of the Polish Succession
Spain and France fought together against Austria signing the first family pact. -
War of the Austrian Succession.
Once again Spain and France are united signing the second family pact. -
Fernando VII
Fernando VII inherits the throne after the death of his brother Luis I. -
The signing of the Concordat.
The crown obtained the appointment of all the ecclesiastical positions of the church in Spain. -
Charles III
When Ferdinand VI died, he was succeeded by Charles III. -
The Seven Years' War
Ended the Peace of Paris. -
Manuel Godoy
Carlos IV entrusts power to Manuel Godoy. -
Godoy signs the Treaty of Fontainebleau with Napoleon.
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Joseph I
Napoleon, legitimized by the abdications, appoints his brother Joseph I king of Spain. -
The Constitution of 1812.
She was known as La Pepa. -
Abolition of the Constitution.
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The Pragmatic Sanction.
It excluded the Salic Law that excluded women from the throne. -
Confiscation of Mendizabal
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The Constitution of 1837 is promulgated.
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Elizabeth II comes to the throne.
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The Constitution of 1845.
Assumes the principles of conservative liberalism. -
La Vicalvarada
A military uprising took place in Vicálvaro called La Vicalvarada. -
Confiscation of Madoz
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The Glorious
The revolution of 1868 was known as La Gloriosa. -
In 1868 a popular uprising led by Manuel Céspedes began the struggle for autonomy in Cuba.
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Constitution of 1869.
It was the first democratic constitution in the history of Spain. -
Amadeo of Savoy was proclaimed King of Spain
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The First Republic.
It was proclaimed after the courts as an emergency solution after the abdication of Amadeo. -
General Pavia's coup.
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The Third Carlist War ends
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Constitution of 1876
Inspired by the constitution of 1845. -
The Peace of Zanjón put an end to the Cuban insurrection
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Canovist system.
The Conservative and Liberal parties succeeded each other in power. -
After the death of Alfonso XII, power remains in Cánovas.
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The war for independence in Cuba began in February with El Grito de Baire.
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The Spanish-American War occurs
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The Spanish-American War ended with the Peace of Paris.
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The military directory
In the first stage Primo de Rivera formed a Military Directory with him as president as an interim regime with the aim of resolving the problems that remained to be solved. -
The disaster led to the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera.
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The civilian directory
Prestigious for its previous successes, and when many expected the dictatorship to be over, a second phase called the civilian the second phase called the Civilian Directory. In this phase, Primo de Rivera decided to perpetuate the system by including in the government some civilian politicians the system by including in the government some civilian politicians, such as José Calvo Sotelo and Eduardo Aunós. -
Landing of Alhaucemas
During the first stage of the dictatorship, the Moroccan conflict in collaboration with France, the Alhaucemas landing was organised and was a great success. -
The Dictablanda
Alfonso XIII entrusted the formation of a government to general Berenguer, with the task of restoring the Consitution 1876 and saving the royal figure, who was increasingly unpopular as he was considered to be directly responsible for the dictatorship. -
Reform biennium
Niceto Alcalá Zamora, elegido presidente de la República por las Cortes, mandó a Manuel Azaña presidir un Gobierno republicano-socialista, que acometió las reformas iniciadas por el Gobierno Provisional para desmontar las estructuras tradicionales e imponer los valores de la democracia -
The secomd republic
Apr 14, 1931 The Second Republic
On 14 April 1931 the Revolutionary Committee was constituted as the Provisional Government, proclaiming the Second Republic -
The right-wing biennium
The abstention promoted by the anarchists and the division of the left facilitated the triumph of the centre-right parties. -
The popular front
The October repression and subsequent measures made possible the creation of the Popular Front, an electoral coalition of left-wing forces (republicans, socialists and communists) with the support of the anarchists who did not participate. -
The coup d'etat of july 1936
The uprising began in Morocco on 17 July and spread to the rest of the nation the following day.However, it failed to gain the upper hand in the two main cities, Madrid and Barcelona, leaving Spain divided into two practically equal zones. -
Period: to
The civil war
On 18 July General Mola in Pamplona and other military chiefs in the rest of Spain declared a state of war.
Apr 26, 1936 -
Bombing of guernica
On 26 April April 1937 the Condor legion bombed Guernica, on orders from Franco's headquarters. It was the first bombing of a civilian population. -
The appointment of franco
Franco became the undisputed military leader and was proclaimed Head of State and Generalissimo of the Spanish Army on 1 October 1936. -
The battle of ebro
The bloodiest and longest of the entire war -
Period: to
Franco's dictatorship
Franco's dictatorship was a dictatorship of a personal nature. There was no political party, as in the fascist ones, which imposed its total domination, but rather there were different political families, before which he was the supreme judge and arbiter. -
Period: to
Totalitarian phase
In which we can initially distinguish a predominance of the Falange (Blue Stage: 1939-1939) until Franco gave more prominence to the Catholics of the ACNP (National Catholicism Stage: 1945-1957). -
The end of the war
The war ended with the victory of the national side. -
Period: to
Technocratic phase
Franco appointed technocratic Opus Dei ministers in 1957,
who approved a Stabilisation Plan in 1959 that laid the foundations for a modernisation of the economy. -
Period: to
Decomposition phase of the regime
Franco, physically deteriorated, delegated the
the Head of Government to his right-hand man, Admiral Carrero Blanco, and signs of decomposition of the
signs of the regime's decomposition -
Transition to democracy
Spain moved from a dictatorship to a
democracy through a process called
transition. -
The death of franco
Franco died on 20 November 1975. Hundreds of thousands of people passed in front of the coffin in the Palacio de Oriente. Many, to mourn and others to see the corpse of a man who wanted to stop the history of Spain. -
Proclamation of juan carlos de borbon as king of spain
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Period: to
The constituent period
On 15 June 1977, the first democratic elections were held after Franco's regime. The UCD (centre-right) of Adolfo Suárez obtained a simple majority, followed by the PSOE of Felipe González (centre-left). -
The constitution of 1978
The 1978 Constitution has its sources in Spanish historical constitutionalism (Constitution of 1931) and, above all, in post-war European constitutionalism (Bonn Fundamental Law).
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Coup d'etat on 23
The coup d'état of 23-F was staged by Antonio Tejero, who hijacked the legislative and executive powers. -
Period: to
The four psoe legislatures
In October 1982, the PSOE, with the slogan "for change",
won an absolute majority. The PSOE would govern for four terms. -
Period: to
The first legislature of the popular party
José María Aznar, leader of the PP, won the 1996 elections by a
narrow margin, developing a centrist policy of dialogue to obtain the support of the nationalist minorities (CiU and PNV) and the trade unions. -
Period: to
The socialist goberment
For the first time in our history, a parity government was formed and a woman, María Teresa Fernández de Vega, was placed at the head of the Vice-Presidency -
Period: to
Mariano Rajoy's governments
In 2011, Mariano Rajoy, as leader of the PP, assumed the presidency of the government. During his term in office, marked by the economic crisis and austerity policies in line with the EU, major cases of corruption came to light.