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The Great Peninsular Kingdoms Castile

  • 1212

    Battle of the Navas de Tolosa

    Battle of the Navas de Tolosa
    The coalition of the Christian kingdoms won the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
  • Period: 1217 to 1252

    Ferdinand III

    he conquered a large part of the Iberian peninsula thanks to its matrimonial alliance and its military squils
  • 1230

    Definitive union of Castile and León

    Definitive union of Castile and León
    The Crown of Castile was a medieval state in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then Castilian king, Ferdinand III, to the vacant Leonese throne.
  • 1244

    Ferdinand III occupies Jaén Treaty of Almizra

    Ferdinand III occupies Jaén Treaty of Almizra
    Alfonso X of Castile and James I of Aragon signed the Treaty of Almizra which meant that Murcia remained part of Castile
  • Period: 1252 to 1284

    Alfonso X

    He carried out an active and beneficial economic policy, reforming the currency and the hacienda, granting numerous fairs and recognizing the Honorable Council of the Mesta.
  • 1262

    Alfonso X conquers Niebla

    Alfonso X conquers Niebla
    The conquest of Niebla in 660 H / 1262 d.n.e. by King Alfonso X (1252-1284)
      ended the five and a half centuries of Andalusian history of said city, long period
      initiated from his submission by `Abd al-
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      Aziz b. Milsá in 94/713, at the beginning of
      the Islamic eruption in the Iberian Peninsula.
  • 1273

    Foundation of the Mesta

    Foundation of the Mesta
    The Honest Council of the Mesta of Alfonso X was created in 1273 by Alfonso X el Sabio, bringing together all the pastors of León and Castilla in a national association and granting them important prerogatives and privileges such as exempting them from military service and witnessing in the trials, rights of way and grazing, etc.
  • Period: 1284 to 1295

    Sancho IV

    The arrival of Sancho IV to the throne was motivated, in part, by the rejection of a sector of Castilian high society to the policy of his father, Alfonso X, and his admiration for Arab and Jewish culture.
  • Period: 1295 to 1312

    Ferdinand IV

    He was the son of King Sancho IV of Castile and his wife, Queen María de Molina. By paternal line was grandson of Alfonso X the Wise one and of the Violante queen of Aragon, daughter of Jaime I of Aragon. On the maternal side he was the grandson of the Infante Alfonso de Molina, son of King Alfonso IX of León, and of his wife, Major Alfonso de Meneses.
  • Period: 1312 to 1350

    Alfonso XI

    During his reign he managed to take the Christian limits to the Strait of Gibraltar after the important victory in the battle of the Salado against the Benimerines, in 1340 and the conquest of the Kingdom of Algeciras in 1344. Once resolved this conflict put all his efforts of Reconquista fighting against the Moorish king of Granada.
  • 1340

    Battle of Salado

    Battle of Río Salado or Battle of Tarifa (1340), a battle of the armies of King Afonso IV of Portugal and King Alfonso XI of Castile against those of sultan Abu al-Hasan 'Ali of Morocco and Yusuf I of Granada
  • 1344

    Alfonso XI occupies Algeciras

    Alfonso XI occupies Algeciras
    Alfonso XI occupies Algeciras
  • Period: 1350 to 1369

    Peter I

    Peter was the last ruler of the main branch of the House of Ivrea.
  • 1369

    Beginning of the Trastamara dynasty in the Crown of Castile

    Beginning of the Trastamara dynasty  in the Crown of Castile
    The House of Trastámara was a branch of the dynasty of Castilian origin that reigned in the Crown of Castile from 1369 to 1555, the Crown of Aragon from 1412 to 1555, the Kingdom of Navarra from 1425 to 1479 and the Kingdom of Naples from 1458 to 1501 and from 1504 to 1555
  • Period: 1369 to 1379

    Henry II of trastamara

    He was King of Castile, the first of the House of Trastámara.
  • Period: 1379 to 1390

    John I of Castile

    He was the last Castilian king crowned solemnly.4 After him, monarchs assumed royal dignity by proclamation and acclamation
  • Period: 1390 to 1406

    Henry III

    called "El Doliente" (Burgos, October 4, 1379-Toledo, December 25, 1406), son of Juan I and Leonor de Aragón, was King of Castile between 1390 and 1406. He succeeded to his death his son, Juan II.
  • Period: 1406 to 1454

    John II

    son of King Henry III "the Sufferer" and Queen Catherine of Lancaster.
  • Period: 1454 to 1474

    Henry IV

    Some historians called him contemptuously "the Impotent." He was the son of Juan II and María de Aragón, and paternal brother of Isabel, who proclaimed himself queen at his death, and Alfonso, who disputed the throne in life.
  • Period: 1474 to 1504

    Isabella I

    For his marriage to Fernando de Aragón. Also it exerted like Mrs. of Vizcaya, independent territory by then but that had happened to be governed by the crown of Castile. It is also known as Isabella the Catholic, a title that was granted to her and her husband by Pope Alexander VI through the bull Si convenit, on December 19, 1496.
  • Period: 1475 to 1479

    Civil war in castile-

    As a result, the Crowns of Castile and Aragon were plunged into bloody civil wars
  • 1492

    Conquest of Granada

    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 in the interior of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada