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This is a timeline of Spanish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Spain and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Spain.[1] [2]
Centuries: 6th · 7th · 8th · 9th · 10th · 11th · 12th · 13th · 14th · 15th · 16th · 17th · 18th · 19th · 20th · 21st
6th century
Year | Date | Event | Map |
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507 | The Franks attacked allied with the Burgundians to the Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse. Alaric II was killed at the Battle of Vouillé, and Toulouse was sacked. The Visigoths had lost most of their Gallic holdings and are retreated to Hispania and Septimania, helped by Ostrogoths. Kingdom of Toulouse ended and The Arian Kingdom of Hispania began. Barcelona was the new capital of the Visigoths.[3] From this moment, little by little, Visigothic Hispania will be the first effective realisation of an independent Kingdom or State of wholly Hispanic territories and scope.[4] | ||
552 | Byzantine Empire conquered part of the south of the Visigothic kingdom. | ||
567 | Toledo. Capital of the Visigothic kingdom by the end of the reign of Athanagild.[5] | ||
568 | Liuvigild began his reign. He is among the greatest Visigothic kings of the Arian period because he consolidated Visigothic power in Spain. He is known for his Code of Leovigild, a law that allowed equal rights between the Visigothic and Hispano-Roman populations, and for expanding the territory of the Visigothic Kingdom. Since Leovigild, the Visigoth kings minted their own Tremissis coin. | ||
585 | Liuvigild conquered the Suebic Kingdom. | ||
589 | 8 May | The Third Council of Toledo marks the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church, after Reccared I converted in 587. The Catholic Kingdom of Toledo began. |
7th century
Year | Date | Event | Map |
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624 | Swinthila reconquered the south of Byzantine Hispania. | ||
"History of the Kings of the Goths" is written by Isidore of Seville. In the prologue, "Laus Spaniae" (Praises to Spain), introduces the phrase mater Spania (mother Spain) and defends the Gothic identity of a unified Spain. | |||
625 | The entire Hispania and Septimania is under the Visigothic Kingdom. Swinthila defeated the Basques.[6] | ||
654 | Recceswinth was responsible for the promulgation of a law code, Liber Iudiciorum. The new laws applied to both Gothic and Hispano-Roman populations. |
8th century
Year | Date | Event | Map |
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711 | July | The Battle of Guadalete was the first major battle of the Umayyad conquest of Hispania. Roderic, the last Visigothic king in Hispania under the rule from Toledo, died in the battle. | |
718 | The Visigothic nobleman Pelagius of Asturias rebelled against the Umayyad Caliphate. | ||
722 | Summer | Battle of Covadonga: Forces loyal to Pelagius decimated an Umayyad army sent to reconquer them in a valley in the Picos de Europa. | |
Pelagius was elected princeps of the independent Kingdom of Asturias with his capital at Cangas de Onís. | |||
737 | Pelagius died. He was succeeded as princeps by his son Favila of Asturias. | ||
739 | Favila 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. | ||
740 | Asturias conquered and annexed Galicia. | ||
757 | Alfonso the Catholic died. He was succeeded as king by his son Fruela I the Cruel of Asturias. | ||
768 | 14 January | Fruela was assassinated. | |
Fruela's cousin Aurelius of Asturias was crowned king of Asturias. | |||
774 | Aurelius died. He was succeeded by his cousin-in-law, Silo of Asturias, husband of Alfonso the Catholic's daughter Adosinda. Silo established his capital at Pravia. | ||
783 | Silo died. | ||
Adosinda engineered the election of her nephew Alfonso II the Chaste of Asturias, son of Fruela, as king of Asturias. | |||
A coalition of nobles elected Alfonso the Catholic's illegitimate son Mauregatus of Asturias king of Asturias. Alfonso the Chaste fled to Álava. | |||
789 | Mauregatus died. | ||
Aurelius's brother Bermudo I the Deacon, the Monk of Asturias was elected king of Asturias. | |||
791 | Battle of the Burbia River: An Asturian force attacked a Cordoban army near Villafranca del Bierzo on its return to Córdoba and was defeated. | ||
Bermudo abdicated the throne. | |||
14 September | Alfonso the Chaste was crowned king of Asturias in Toledo, Spain. | ||
Alfonso the Chaste established his capital at Oviedo. | |||
794 | Battle of Lutos: A Cordoban army returning from a scorched earth campaign in modern Álava was wiped out by an Asturian force. | ||
795 | 18 September | Battle of Las Babias: Córdoba attacked and routed an Asturian force near Astorga, Spain. |
9th century
Year | Date | Event | Map |
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816 | Battle of Pancorbo (816): Córdoba slaughtered a Basque-Asturian force defending the Basque homeland in the Pyrenees at Pancorbo. | ||
824 | Battle of Roncevaux Pass (824): 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 | Alfonso the Chaste died. | ||
The Asturian nobility elected Nepotian of Asturias, a relative of Alfonso the Chaste, king. | |||
Battle of the Bridge of Cornellana: Forces loyal to Bermudo's son Ramiro I of Asturias defeated Nepotian in modern Salas, Asturias. | |||
850 | 1 February | Ramiro died. He was buried in the Pantheon of Asturian Kings in Oviedo. His son Ordoño I of Asturias succeeded him as king. | |
851 | Battle of Albelda (851): Ordoño suppressed a Basque revolt in northeastern Asturias and expelled an opportunistic Cordoban invasion near Albelda. | ||
Íñigo died. He was succeeded as king of Navarre by his son García Íñiguez of Pamplona. | |||
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. | ||
859 | Vikings captured García and extorted a ransom of some seventy thousand gold dinars from Navarre for his return. | ||
860 | Cordoban forces captured García's son and heir Fortún Garcés the One-Eyed, the Monk of Pamplona in Milagro, Navarre. | ||
862 | An eastern march of Asturias was created the county of Castile under count Rodrigo of Castile. | ||
865 | 9 August | Battle of the Morcuera: Córdoba attacked Asturias, forcing the retreat of Asturian forces and their Castilian allies along the valley of the Ebro. | |
866 | 27 May | Ordoño died. He was succeeded by his eldest son Alfonso III the Great of Asturias. | |
Fruela seized the throne of Asturias and forced Alfonso the Great to flee to Castile. | |||
Fruela was assassinated in Oviedo. | |||
868 | Asturias conquered Porto. Vímara Peres was created count of Portugal. | ||
870 | García died. García Jiménez of Pamplona took power as regent, García's son and heir Fortún Garcés remaining in captivity in Córdoba. | ||
873 | 5 November | Rodrigo died. He was succeeded as count of Castile by his son Diego Rodríguez Porcelos. | |
878 | Asturias conquered Coimbra. | ||
882 | First Battle of Cellorigo: Vela Jiménez, count of the Asturian county of Álava, repelled an attempted conquest by the Emirate of Córdoba of an important mountain pass at Cellorigo. | ||
Fortún Garcés was returned to rule in Navarre. | |||
883 | Second Battle of Cellorigo: Vela Jiménez repelled an attempted conquest by the Emirate of Córdoba of an important mountain pass at Cellorigo. | ||
885 | 31 January | Rodríguez died. |
10th century
Year | Date | Event |
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901 | July | Day of Zamora: The Asturian defenders of Zamora, Spain dealt heavy casualties to a Cordoban force attempting to conquer it. The heads of the besiegers were displayed on the city walls. |
905 | The Navarrese nobility removed Fortún Garcés from the throne, placing Sancho I of Pamplona there in his stead. | |
910 | 20 December | Alfonso the Great died and was buried at Oviedo Cathedral. His kingdom was divided among his three sons, with his eldest, García I of León, receiving León, Ordoño II of León receiving Galicia, and Fruela II of Asturias receiving a rump Asturias including Castile. |
914 | 19 January | García I died. His lands passed to Ordoño II. |
917 | Battle of San Esteban de Gormaz (917): Leonese forces broke a Cordoban siege of San Esteban de Gormaz. | |
920 | 26 July | Battle of Valdejunquera: A Cordoban army invading Castile routed a joint Leonese-Navarrese force at Valdejunquera, probably between modern Estella-Lizarra and Pamplona, forcing the abandonment by León of Clunia. |
922 | Navarre defeated Galindo Aznárez II, count of the County of Aragon, in battle and forced him into vassalage. | |
924 | June | Ordoño II died. |
The Leonese nobility elected Fruela II king of León. | ||
925 | July | Fruela II died, possibly from leprosy. His will named his son Alfonso Fróilaz his successor. Ordoño II's sons Sancho Ordóñez, Alfonso IV the Monk of León and Ramiro II of León did not recognize Fróilaz's succession, however, leaving him in de facto authority only in Galicia. |
Fruela II's younger brother, a Ramiro, married his widow Urraca bint Abd Allah and claimed the royal title. | ||
Ordóñez, Alfonso the Monk and Ramiro II forced Fróilaz into exile in the eastern marches of Asturias. | ||
Ordóñez seized León, Spain. | ||
Alfonso the Monk, with the support of Navarre and the Leonese nobility, expelled Ordóñez from León, Spain. | ||
10 December | Sancho I died. He was succeeded by his young son García Sánchez I of Pamplona with his brother Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona acting as regent. | |
926 | Ordóñez was crowned princeps of Galicia. | |
929 | 16 August | Ordóñez died. His territory passed to Alfonso the Monk. |
931 | Fernán González of Castile became count of Castile. | |
Álvaro Herraméliz, count of Lantarón and Álava, died. Fernán González inherited his territories and united them with Castile. | ||
29 May | Jimeno Garcés died. | |
Alfonso the Monk was forced to abdicate the rule of León and Galicia to his brother Ramiro II. | ||
939 | 19 July | Battle of Simancas: A battle began near Simancas which would see a joint Leonese-Navarrese force repel an attempted Cordoban conquest of the lands around the Douro. |
5 August | Battle of Alhandic: Cordoban forces conquered the Leonese city of Zamora, Spain with great cost in lives to both sides. | |
951 | 1 January | Ramiro II died and was buried in the Basílica de San Isidoro, León. He was succeeded by his son Ordoño III of León. |
956 | Ordoño III died in Zamora, Spain. He was succeeded by his half-brother Sancho I the Fat of León. | |
958 | The Leonese nobility, led by Fernán González, deposed Sancho the Fat in favor of Alfonso the Monk's son Ordoño IV the Wicked, the Bad of León. | |
960 | Sancho the Fat was restored to the throne of León with the support of Navarre and Córdoba. | |
966 | Sancho the Fat was poisoned by count Gonzalo Menéndez of Portugal and buried in the Basílica de San Isidoro, León. He was succeeded by his young son Ramiro III of León, with the latter's aunt Elvira Ramírez and mother Teresa Ansúrez ruling as regents. | |
970 | 22 February | García Sánchez I died. He was succeeded by his eldest son Sancho II of Pamplona. A small territory around Viguera he willed to another son as the Kingdom of Viguera. |
Fernán González died. He was succeeded as count of Castile by his son García Fernández of the White Hands of Castile. | ||
981 | 9 July | Battle of Torrevicente: A Cordoban force dealt a bloody defeat to a rebel Cordoban general and his Vigueran and Castilian allies, probably near Atienza. |
Battle of Rueda: A Cordoban force dealt a decisive defeat to a joint Leonese-Navarrese army in Rueda, Valladolid. | ||
982 | 15 October | The Galician nobility acclaimed Ordoño III's son Bermudo II the Gouty of León king of Galicia with the support of the Caliphate of Córdoba. |
984 | Bermudo deposed Ramiro III and replaced him as king of León. | |
987 | León expelled Cordoban forces from Zamora, Spain. | |
991 | November | The Leonese nobility expelled Bermudo from the kingdom. |
992 | September | Bermudo was allowed to return to León. |
994 | Sancho II died and was buried at San Juan de la Peña. He was succeeded as king of Navarre and count of Aragon by his son García Sánchez II of Pamplona. | |
995 | May | Fernández was captured by a Cordoban raiding party. |
June | Fernández died of his wounds at Medinaceli. He was succeeded by his son Sancho García of the Good Laws of Castile. | |
996 | Córdoba conquered the Leonese city of Astorga, Spain. | |
999 | Castile declined to pay its annual tribute to Córdoba. | |
September | Bermudo died. He was succeeded by his young son Alfonso V the Noble of León, with the latter's mother Elvira of Castile, Queen of León and the count Menendo González, count of Portugal and duke in Galicia, acting as regents. | |
1000 | 29 July | Battle of Cervera: Córdoba defeated the combined forces of García of the Good Laws and García Gómez, count of Saldaña, Carrión and Liébana on a punitive expedition near modern Espinosa de Cervera. |
García Sánchez II died. He was succeeded as king of Navarre and count of Aragon by his young son Sancho III the Great of Pamplona, with the latter's mother Jimena Fernández and grandmother Urraca Fernandez ruling with the bishops of Navarre as regents. |
11th century
Year | Date | Event | Map |
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1005 | A Cordoban army under the caliph Hisham II invaded León with the intent of conquering Zamora, Spain. | ||
García Ramírez of Viguera, king of Viguera, died without male heirs. His territory was absorbed by Navarre. | |||
1008 | 6 October | Menendo González died. Alfonso the Noble entered his majority. | |
1009 | Hisham was overthrown and imprisoned by his cousin Muhammad II of Córdoba. | ||
1 November | Sulayman ibn al-Hakam, at the head of an army of disaffected Berbers and with the help of García of the Good Laws, defeated Muhammad, forcing the latter to flee to Toledo, Spain, and freed Hisham. | ||
1011 | Sancho the Great married García of the Good Laws's daughter Muniadona of Castile. | ||
1015 | Sancho the Great conquered the county of Sobrarbe. | ||
1017 | 5 February | García of the Good Laws died. He was succeeded as count of Castile and Álava by his young son García Sánchez of Castile, with Urraca of Covarrubias, the latter's aunt and Fernández's daughter, acting as regent with the Castilian nobility. | |
1018 | Sancho the Great annexed half of the county of Ribagorza. | ||
1025 | Raymond III of Pallars Jussà, count of Pallars Jussà and the rump Ribagorza, pledged submission to Sancho the Great as his vassal. | ||
1028 | 7 August | Alfonso the Noble died. He was succeeded as king of León by his son Bermudo III of León. | |
1029 | García Sánchez was assassinated in León, Spain by the sons of a noble he had expelled from the lands between the Cea and the Pisuerga. | ||
Sancho the Great appointed Ferdinand I the Great of León, his son and grandson of García of the Good Laws on his mother's side, count of Castile. | |||
1031 | Hisham III of Córdoba, the caliph of Córdoba in exile, was overthrown and his title abolished by the local nobility, resulting in the immediate de jure independence of the taifas of Al-Andalus. | ||
1032 | Alfonso the Noble's daughter Sancha of León was married to Ferdinand the Great. | ||
1034 | Navarre conquered León, Spain. Bermudo III fled to modern Galicia. | ||
1035 | 18 October | Sancho the Great died. His kingdom was divided among his sons. Gonzalo of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza received Sobrarbe and Ribagorza. The illegitimate Ramiro I of Aragon was granted the title of bailiff and some property in Aragon. García Sánchez III of Pamplona succeeded his father as king of Navarre and held suzerainty over his brothers. | |
Battle of Tafalla: García Sánchez III repelled an invasion of his kingdom by Ramiro I. | |||
1037 | 4 September | Battle of Tamarón: Bermudo III of León fell from his horse and was slain by forces loyal to Ferdinand the Great. | |
1038 | 22 June | Ferdinand the Great was crowned king of León and Castile in León, Spain. | |
1043 | 26 June | Gonzalo of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza was assassinated by one of his knights. | |
Ramiro I annexed Sobrarbe and Ribagorza. | |||
1054 | 1 September | Battle of Atapuerca: Navarrese and Leonese forces met near modern Atapuerca, Province of Burgos. García Sánchez III and his tutor Fortún Sánchez were killed. García Sánchez III's son Sancho IV of Peñalén of Pamplona succeeded him as king under the regency of Stephanie, Queen of Navarre. León annexed Navarrese territories south of the Ebro. | |
1056 | Ferdinand the Great crowned himself Imperator totius Hispaniae. | ||
1058 | 25 May | Stephanie died. | |
1062 | 29 December | Sancho of Peñalén and Ferdinand the Great signed a treaty defining their border. | |
1063 | Synod of Jaca (1063): Ramiro I presided over a synod in Jaca which reestablished the Roman Catholic Diocese of Huesca. | ||
8 May | Battle of Graus: Ramiro I died in a failed attempt to take Graus from the taifa of Zaragoza. He was succeeded by his son Sancho Ramírez. | ||
1064 | August | Crusade of Barbastro: At the urging of the pope Pope Alexander II, a coalition of Aragon, Urgell, Aquitaine and the Papal States conquered Barbastro from the taifa of Lérida. | |
1065 | Battle of Paterna: Valencian forces pursuing the army of Ferdinand the Great, then in retreat from a failed siege of Valencia, were ambushed and wiped out at Paterna. | ||
24 December | Ferdinand the Great died. His kingdom was divided among his three children. The eldest, Sancho II the Strong of Castile and León, received Castile. León was divided; Galicia went to García II of Galicia, and the remainder went to Alfonso VI the Brave, the Valiant of León and Castile. | ||
War of the Three Sanchos: Sancho the Strong began ordering border raids on Navarre. | |||
1067 | War of the Three Sanchos: The war reached a stalemate. Castile remained in possession of the Navarrese territories in modern Álava, Montes de Oca, Pancorbo, Burgos and La Rioja. | ||
1068 | Spring | Alfonso the Brave invaded the taifa of Badajoz. | |
19 July | Battle of Llantada: Sancho the Strong defeated Alfonso the Brave at Llantadilla, in the taifa of Badajoz near modern Melgar de Fernamental. | ||
1071 | June | Sancho the Strong and Alfonso the Brave invaded Galicia from the north and south, respectively, partitioning the kingdom and forcing García II into exile in Seville. | |
1072 | January | Battle of Golpejera: Sancho the Strong defeated and captured Alfonso the Brave near Carrión de los Condes. The latter was released and sent into exile in Toledo. | |
12 January | Sancho the Strong was crowned king of León. | ||
7 October | Sancho the Strong was betrayed and murdered by a Zamoran noble during his assault on Zamora, Spain. | ||
Alfonso the Brave succeeded his brother Sancho the Strong as king of León and Castile. | |||
1074 | The taifas of Toledo and Granada were forced to pay the parias to Alfonso the Brave. | ||
1076 | 4 June | Sancho of Peñalén was thrown from a cliff in Peñalén by his brother and sister. Alfonso the Brave recognized his young son García Sánchez as his successor. | |
The Navarrese nobility elected Sancho Ramírez king. The latter ceded some territory in Navarre's west to Alfonso the Brave. | |||
The Emir of Zaragoza began to pay the parias to Alfonso the Brave. | |||
1077 | Alfonso the Brave took the title Imperator totius Hispaniae. | ||
1079 | Battle of Cabra: Seville defeated the invading forces of Granada. Both sides were aided by Castilian knights. | ||
Alfonso the Brave conquered Coria, Cáceres. | |||
1083 | 28 April | Sancho Ramírez conquered Graus. | |
Under the pretense of surrender, the occupants of the castle of Rueda de Jalón, a Zaragozan stronghold, invited important nobles of León to the castle and murdered them. | |||
1084 | 14 August | Battle of Morella: A Zaragozan army led by the general El Cid decisively defeated the forces of Sancho Ramírez near Tortosa. | |
25 December | Battle of Piedra Pisada: A Zaragozan army skirmished with the forces of Alfonso the Brave, then following the valley of the Cinca from Naval, Huesca to El Grado. | ||
1085 | 25 May | Alfonso the Brave conquered Toledo, Spain. | |
Alfonso the Brave conquered modern Madrid. | |||
1086 | March | Alfonso the Brave installed his vassal, an al-Qádir, as king of Valencia. | |
23 October | Battle of Sagrajas: Yusuf ibn Tashfin, the sultan of the Almoravid dynasty, at the head of a coalition of Andalusian taifas, defeated León and Castile and Aragon in a bloody battle near Badajoz. The taifas renounced payment of the parias. | ||
1087 | Siege of Tudela: Alfonso the Brave, Sancho Ramírez, Odo I, Duke of Burgundy, the duke of Burgundy, and William the Carpenter, viscount of Melun, laid siege to the Zaragozan fortress at Tudela, Navarre. | ||
Sancho Ramírez conquered Estada. | |||
1088 | Sancho Ramírez took the Castle of Montearagón. | ||
1089 | 24 June | Sancho Ramírez conquered Monzón. | |
1090 | Yusuf overthrew the king of Valencia and sent him into exile. | ||
1094 | 4 June | Sancho Ramírez died during a siege of Huesca. He was succeeded as king of Aragon and Navarre by his eldest son Peter I of Aragon and Pamplona. | |
June | El Cid reconquered Valencia, Spain for Castile. | ||
November | Alfonso the Brave lost Lisbon, Sintra and Santarém, Portugal to Almoravid conquests. | ||
1095 | 16 March | The pope Pope Urban II issued a bull forbidding the excommunication of Peter I or his queen Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon and Navarre without his express authorization. | |
1096 | Battle of Alcoraz: Peter I defeated the Zaragozan forces sent to relieve his siege of Huesca. | ||
27 November | Peter I conquered Huesca. | ||
1097 | Battle of Bairén: An Aragonese army pinned between Almoravid forces and the Mediterranean Sea routed their enemies near modern Gandia. | ||
15 August | Battle of Consuegra: An Almoravid force defeated one of Alfonso the Brave's armies near Consuegra. | ||
16 August | Peter I married Bertha of Aragon in Huesca, marking the transfer of the Aragonese capital from Jaca. |