Sociedad Canaria timeline.

The first news we have of the islands on a map is made by Hannon, although they had previously been named in ancient texts.

The first settlers of the Canary Islands were the aborigines, who arrived in the 6th century B.C. Although there are many theories about their origin, none has been corroborated since all the evidence has been destroyed either by the aborigines or by the colonizers.

Starting in 1991, an idea that had been suggested in the 19th century and that wanted to see the settlement of the Canary Islands as a work of the Phoenicians or Carthaginians was revitalized. Regarding this theory, the Phoenicians, when carrying out their colonial expansion, were able to set up factories in North Africa, for which reason the Canary Islands must have interested them in something, so that they would repeatedly return to the island bringing with them people from the African coast.

Euphorbio, a scholar at the head of the expedition of Juba II, King of Mauritania, reports on the existence of Tenerife, which he calls Nivaria.

First documented European trip to the Canary Islands, led by Lancelotto Mallocello.

In 1341, King Alfonso IV of Portugal sent an expedition to the Canary Islands for four months.

In 1344 the islands were declared the Principality of La Fortuna with the aim of encouraging Luis de la Cerda to conquer the islands and finance their evangelization.

Luis de la Cerda asked Pope Clemente VI to grant him the land for evangelization.

In the year 1351, the Bishopric of La Fortuna was created with headquarters in Telde.

In the 16th century, Europeans became interested in the archipelago whose conquest began in 1402. The second conquest in 1477 called Realengo initiated by the Crown of Castile.

They disembarked in the Rubicon area, where Béthencourt made a pact with the aboriginal king Guadarfía.

The conquest is carried out by the nobility, for their own benefit and without direct participation of the Crown. We will distinguish within it the one known as the Betancurian or Norman Conquest, carried out by Jean de Bethencourt and Gadifer de la Salle between 1402 and 1405 and which affected the islands of Lanzarote, El Hierro and Fuerteventura.

After the conquest of Lanzarote Béthencourt decided to conquer Fuerteventura

Pope Eugenio IV establishes a bull in which he expresses the absolute prohibition of the slave trade with natives of the Canary Islands.

The Franciscan friar Alonso de Bolaños created the first nucleus of missionary activity in Güimar.

Tenerife acquires the consideration of a royal island when it acquires the rights to the Crown of Castile, prior payment to the family of Hernán Peraza.

Initial stage of 1478. He disembarked in La Isleta (in the northeast of the island). That day, along with Guiniguada, the Real de Las Palmas was founded. A few days later, the first confrontation in which the islanders were defeated took place near the Real. This initial victory gave the Castilians control of the northeast corner of the island.

It began with a landing of the troops of Alonso Fernández de Lugo in 1492. The island of La Palma was governed by King Tanausú.

After the conquest of La Palma, Alonso Fernández de Lugo began that of Tenerife. This island was divided into menceyatos.

The advanced Alonso Fernández de Lugo begins the conquest; he registered an important defeat in Acentejo. The city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is founded.

Second attempt by Fernández de Lugo. The Castilians won in La Laguna and, a month later, in Acentejo.

The Court of the Inquisition had its headquarters in the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria from 1505. The most persecuted by the Holy Office were the false converts, especially Jews and Muslims. The Canarian aborigines were
the group of new Christians best treated by the Inquisition.

Fernando de Magallanes leaves Tenerife on the important trip that allows him to discover the strait that bears his name.

The Royal Court was created, which held political and legal power. Its headquarters are in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Pedro Fernández de Lugo, second in advance of the Canary Islands, leaves with 1,500 men to conquer South America. He founded the city of Tenerife, on the banks of the La Magdalena river (Colombia).

The Canarian society of the 16th century was hierarchical. It was divided into the agrarian nobility and the clergy and the rest of society was made up of peasants.
The decline in the aboriginal population led to the entry of Africans to work as slaves in sugar mills, herding and agricultural activities.

Until the 16th century, economic activities were mainly directed towards self-consumption. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the main economic activities in the Canary Islands were agriculture and foreign trade.
Other economic activities were subsistence agriculture, livestock and fishing.

Santa Cruz records the attack of the English admiral Robert Blake, who intended to seize the cargo of the New Spain fleet. He was repulsed by the Island's troops.

In Garachico, the riot known as the wine spill took place, which ended the English monopoly on the trade of this product.

At the beginning of the 18th century, pirate attacks arose without success of conquest.

The Trevejo volcano explodes in Garachico. The eruption lasted 40 days and buried the port, part of the town and the cultivation areas.

Rear Admiral John Jennings, with a squadron of 13 ships, unsuccessfully tries to seize the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

In 1718 the Administration was created with the aim of centralizing the local Administration.
In the Canary Islands, they also had jurisdiction over trade with America.

The first printing press in the Canary Islands begins to operate in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

The Chamber of Castilla makes public the royal decree by which Carlos IV orders the creation of a Literary University in La Laguna. Before, in 1744, the Ecclesiastical University of San Agustín had been created, as a transformation of a center of higher studies for Augustinian religious, established in the same city in 1701.

In the middle of the 18th century, control of the municipal institutions in the manor islands remained in the hands of the territorial lords, who were the ones who appointed the councilors of the municipalities.

The Canarian politics of the 19th century was characterized by the implantation of liberalism, which had to face the economic rivalry that existed between the bourgeoisie and the large landowners of Gran Canaria and Tenerife.

The Cortes Generales grant Santa Cruz de Tenerife the title of capital of the province of the Canary Islands, a rank that it will maintain until 1927.

The Chinyero volcano erupts, the last recorded eruption in Tenerife. The lava flowed for ten days.

The Law of the Island Councils enters into force. Eduardo Domínguez, president of the Tenerife corporationThe Law of the Island Councils enters into force. Eduardo Domínguez, president of the Tenerife corporation

The Military Directorate of Primo de Rivera agrees on the provincial division of the Canary region, with which Santa Cruz de Tenerife loses its capital status

The capital of Tenerife hosts the II Universal Exhibition of Surrealism. André Bretón signs the manifesto of this cultural movement, officially declaring Tenerife a surreal island.

In 1936 Francisco Franco was stationed in the Canary Islands as General Commander. This appointment was due to the policy of the government of the republic to disperse to the peripheral areas those senior military officials with a conservative tendency who could carry out a military coup.

The recently appointed Captain General of the Canary Islands, Francisco Franco, who had arrived in Tenerife in March, rose up against the Government of the Republic in July, unleashing the Civil War.

The Los Rodeos airport (La Laguna) is inaugurated, which maintains its exclusive character in the communication area of the Island until in 1978 when the Reina Sofía airport in Tenerife South begins its activity.

The Galician sailboat Emilio transports 51 Canarian passengers to Venezuela, who embark without authorization in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Clandestine emigration will continue until the sixties; In this way, some 2,000 canarios residents abandon their land.

The Canal del Sur de Tenerife comes into service, an important work of hydraulic engineering that made it possible to transform large areas into irrigation.

The Teide National Park is created by decree, which is among the first three to achieve this recognition within the nine parks in the national network, four of which are in the Canary Islands.

The Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands is approved, which establishes that the Archipelago will have two capitals, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

The King and Queen of Spain inaugurate the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Teide observatory. Three other monarchs and two European heads of state attend.

The EC approves the Program of Specific Options for the Remoteness and Insularity of the Canary Islands, which addresses the differential fact of the islands and establishes measures to achieve full development.

On June 1, the Tenerife Tram enters service, linking the cities of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and La Laguna.