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1212
Battle of las Navas de Tolosa
The coalition of the Christian Kingdoms won the battle of las Navas de Tolosa and the Muslim taifa could not recover their strenght after this time -
Period: 1217 to 1252
Ferdinand lll
Definitively unified during his reign the Castilian and Leonese crowns, which had remained divided since the time of Alfonso VII -
1230
Definitive union of Castile and Leon
The two kingdoms were finally unified in 1230, when Ferdinand III inherited the kingdom of Leon from his father and the kingdom of Castille from his mother -
1244
Ferdinand lll occupies Jaen
It was in consequence of the defeat of the almohads in the battle of the Navas de Tolosa. He occupied Jaen, Cordoba and Seville between the years (1236-1248) -
1244
Treaty of Almizra
The Castilian and Aragonese troops met in Murcia. Alfono X of Castile and James l of Aragón signed the Treaty of Almizra, which meant that Murcia remained part of Castille. -
Period: 1252 to 1284
Alfonso X
He resumed the offensive against the Muslims, and occupied Jerez (1253), razed the port of Rabat, Salé (1260) and conquered Cádiz (c.1262). In 1264, he had to face an important revolt of the Mudejars of Murcia and the valley of the Guadalquivir -
1262
Alfonso X conquers Niebla
In the year 1262 of our era, the Castilian armies of the monarch Alfonso X besieged and took the Islamic city of Niebla -
1273
Foundation of the mesta
The great flocks of ship were owned by nobility, military orders and monasteries. The monarchy created the Mesta in 1237 to protect the sheeps owners interests. -
Period: 1284 to 1295
Sancho lV
Sancho IV of Castile, called «the Brave» (Valladolid, May 12, 1258 - Toledo, April 25, 1295), was King of Castile between 1284 and 1295. He was the son of King Alfonso X «el Sabio» and of his wife, the queen Violante de Aragón, daughter of Jaime I "the Conqueror", king of Aragon. -
Period: 1295 to 1312
Ferdinand IV
Like his predecessors on the throne, Ferdinand IV continued the enterprise of the Reconquest and, although he failed in his attempt to conquer Algeciras in 1309, seized the city of Gibraltar that same year, and in 1312 occupied the plaza Jaén de Alcaudete . -
Period: 1312 to 1350
Alfonso XI
They divided the kingdom because of their aspirations to the regency, while it was sacked by the Moors and noble rebels. Alfonso, once declared of age in 1325, assumed the throne, achieving during his reign the strengthening of royal power, the resolution of the problems of the Straits of Gibraltar and the conquest of Algeciras. -
1340
Battle of Salado
The battle of the Salado was one of the most important battles of the last period of the Reconquest. In it, the combined forces of Castile and Portugal decisively defeated the Benimerines, the last Maghrebi kingdom that would try to invade the Iberian peninsula through battle. -
1344
Alfonso XI occupies Algeciras
The site of Algeciras of 1342 was a warlike enterprise carried out by the Castilian troops of Alfonso XI together with the fleets of Aragon and Genoa during the Reconquest with the aim of conquering Algeciras -
Period: 1350 to 1369
Peter I
Pedro I of Castile (Burgos, August 30, 1334 - Montiel, March 23, 1369), later called "the Cruel" by his detractors and "the Just" or "the Justist" by his supporters, was King of Castile from March 26, 1350 until his death. -
1369
Beginning of the Tratámara dynasty in the Crown of Castille
Henry II founded the dynasty. His father, the king Alfonso XI of Castile, gave him the county of Trastamara in Galicia. Henry II was born in Seville in 1333. I have turned into king of Castile and León when I defeated his step-brother Pedro I in 1369. -
Period: 1369 to 1379
Henry ll of Trastámara
Enrique II of Castile, also known like Enrique de Trastámara, called "the Fratricida" or "the one of the Mercedes" (Seville, 13 of January of 1333 or principles of 1334 - Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 29 of May of 1379), He was King of Castile, the first of the House of Trastámara. -
Period: 1379 to 1390
John l
John l of Castile (Épila or Tamarite de Litera, [b] [c] [d] 1358-Alcalá de Henares, 1390) was King of Castile [a] from May 29, 1379 to the 9 of October 1390. He was the son of Henry II of Castile and Juana Manuel de Villena, daughter of Don Juan Manuel -
Period: 1390 to 1406
Henry lll
Henry III of Castile (4 October 1379 – 25 December 1406), called the Mourner (Spanish: Enrique el Doliente, Galician: Henrique o Doente), was the son of John I and Eleanor of Aragon. He succeeded his father as King of Castile in 1390. -
Period: 1406 to 1454
John ll
John was the son of King Henry III and his wife, Catherine of Lancaster. His mother was the granddaughter of King Peter, who was ousted by Henry III's grandfather, King Henry II. John succeeded his father on 25 December 1406, and united in his person the claims of both Peter and Henry II. -
Period: 1454 to 1474
Henry lV
Henry IV of Castile (Castilian: Enrique IV) (5 January 1425 – 11 December 1474), King of Castile, nicknamed the Impotent (ruled 1454–1474), was the last of the weak late medieval kings of Castile. During Henry's reign the nobles increased in power and the nation became less centralised. -
Period: 1474 to 1504
Isabel l
Isabella I (Spanish: Isabel, 22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504) reigned as Queen of Castile from 1474 until her death. Her marriage to Ferdinand II of Aragón unified the crown of Aragón with the castilian once to recoger the territorios lose by the muslims -
Period: 1475 to 1479
Civil war in Castile
The First Castilian Civil War was a conflict that took place between the supporters of King Pedro I of Castile, the Cruel for the nobility or the Justiciero for the common people, and the supporters of Henry II of Castile -
1492
Conquest of Granada
The war of Granada was the set of military campaigns that took place between 1482 and 1492, undertaken by Queen Elizabeth I of Castile and her husband King Ferdinand II of Aragon.
