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Spanish Time line

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  • Fall of the roman empire
    395

    Fall of the roman empire

    The fall of Rome started in 395 and ended in 476. The roman empire fell because of the invasion of the barbarians. Also because they had an unstable goverment.
  • Visigoths take over Spain
    500

    Visigoths take over Spain

    The Visigoths arrived in Spain from the Pyrenees and settled in the middle of the Peninsula. The Visigoths founded a kingdom, with capital in Toulouse. Between the Visigoth Kings highlighted Leovigildo, Recaredo and Recesvinto, who conquered the entire Peninsula.
  • The Adaptation of Christianity by the Visigoths
    589

    The Adaptation of Christianity by the Visigoths

    After their sack of Rome, the Visigoths moved on to occupy Spain and southern France. Having been driven out of France, the Spanish Goths formally embraced Nicene Christianity at the Third Council of Toledo in 589.
  • Umayyad Caliphate
    711

    Umayyad Caliphate

    in 711Umayyad Caliphate invaded the Iberian Peninsula. Within five years all of the Visigothic kingdom. At that point, the Iberian Peninsula is still a territory and not considered all important.
  • Al-Andalus
    750

    Al-Andalus

    In 750 CE the Umayyad ruling family is murdered by the Abbasids. One surviving Prince and Al-Rahman, flee Syria and settle in Al-Andalus, and Founds the emirate of cordoba
  • The Establishment of the Caliphate of Cordoba
    929

    The Establishment of the Caliphate of Cordoba

    Caliphate of Córdoba, a Muslim state that existed in Spain from January 16, 929, when ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III assumed the supreme title of caliph, to 1031, when the puppet ruler Hishām III was deposed by his viziers and the caliphate disintegrated into the so-called kingdoms of the taifa.
  • The kingdom of Aragon is formed
    1035

    The kingdom of Aragon is formed

    The Kingdom of Aragon was a medieval and early modern kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding to the modern-day autonomous community of Aragon, in Spain
  • End of Islamic Spain
    1492

    End of Islamic Spain

    The last Islamic Kingdom. the emirate of Granada surrenders to queen isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon.