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722
Battle of Covadonga
Pelagius was elected princeps of the independent Kingdom of Asturias with his capital at Cangas de Onís. -
722
Battle of Covadonga
Forces loyal to Pelagius decimated an Umayyad army sent to reconquer them in a valley in the Picos de Europa. -
737
Pelagius died
He was succeeded as princeps by his son Favila of Asturias. -
739
Favila died
He was killed by a bear while hunting. He was succeeded by his brother-in-law Alfonso I the Catholic of Asturias, the son of Peter of Cantabria, the duke of Cantabria. -
795
Battle of Las Babias
Córdoba attacked and routed an Asturian force near Astorga, Spain. -
816
Battle of Pancorbo
Córdoba slaughtered a Basque-Asturian force defending the Basque homeland in the Pyrenees at Pancorbo. -
824
Battle of Roncevaux Pass
A combined force of Basques and the Banu Qasi, both vassals of the emirate of Córdoba, defeated a Carolingian military expedition in the Roncevaux Pass. The Basque chieftain Íñigo Arista of Pamplona was crowned king of Navarre at Pamplona. -
842
Battle of the Bridge of Cornellana
Forces loyal to Bermudo's son Ramiro I of Asturias defeated Nepotian in modern Salas, Asturias. -
851
Battle of Albelda
Ordoño suppressed a Basque revolt in northeastern Asturias and expelled an opportunistic Cordoban invasion near Albelda. -
852
Battle of Guadalacete
Asturian and Pamplonan forces arriving in support of a revolt of the people of Toledo, Spain were routed by a Cordoban army.