Timeline of Spanish history

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This is a timeline of Spanish history. To read about the background to these events, see History of Spain.

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[edit] 15th century

See also Spanish Empire, Spanish Golden Age

• 1469
  • 19 October - marriage of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon lays the foundation of the unification of Castile and Aragon into Spain.
• 1475–1479 - War of the Castilian Succession
• 1478
  • Spanish Inquisition founded.
• 1479
  • 4 September - By the Treaty of Alcáçovas, Portugal recognises Spanish control of the Canary Islands.
• 1492
  • Christopher Columbus discovers the New World.
  • Reconquista completed.
  • History of the Jews in Spain: Jews are expelled from Spain by the Alhambra Decree.
• 1499
  • Ferdinand II of Aragon allies with Louis XII of France in the Italian War of 1499-1504

[edit] 16th century

See also Habsburg Spain

• 1561 - Philip II moves his court to Madrid.
• 1568–1648 - Dutch Revolt against Habsburg control of the Netherlands.
• 1580 - Iberian Union of the crowns of Aragon, Castile and Portugal until 1640.
• 1585–1604 - Anglo–Spanish War.
• 1588
  • 8 August - Spanish Armada defeated in the English Channel.

[edit] 17th century

• 1618–1648 - Thirty Years' War

[edit] 18th century

See also Enlightenment Spain

• 1701–1714 - War of the Spanish Succession
• 1761 - Spain declares war on Great Britain in the Seven Years' War.
• 1778 - Spain supports the United States in the American Revolutionary War.

[edit] 19th century

See also Mid-nineteenth century Spain, Spain under the Restoration

• 1808–1814 - Peninsular War.
• 1806–1807 - British invasions of the Río de la Plata
• 1808
  • 2 May - Dos de Mayo Uprising in Madrid against the French occupation of the city.
• 1809–1824 - Bolivian Independence War
• 1811–1823 - Venezuelan War of Independence
• 1812 - Spanish Constitution of 1812
• 1815–1816 - Spanish reconquest of New Granada
• 1820–1823 - Spanish Civil War, 1820-1823
• 1833–1839 - First Carlist War
• 1846–1849 - Second Carlist War
• 1864–1866 - Chincha Islands War
• 1868–1878 - Ten Years' War with Cuba
• 1872–1876 - Third Carlist War
• 1873–1874 - First Spanish Republic
• 1898
  • 25 April–12 August - Spanish-American War

[edit] 20th century

See also Spain under the Restoration, Spain under Franco, Spanish transition to democracy, Spanish society after the democratic transition, History of Spain (1975–present)

• 1914–1918 - Spain remains neutral in World War I
• 1920–1926 - Rif War
• 1931–1939 - Second Spanish Republic
• 1936–1939 - Spanish Civil War
• 1937
  • 26 April - Bombing of Guernica
• 1939–1945 - Spain remains neutral in World War II
• 1957–1958 - Ifni War
• 1959–1973 - Period of economic growth known as the Spanish miracle.
• 1975
  • The Green March forces Spain to hand over its last remaining colonial possession, Western Sahara, to Morocco
  • 19 November - death of Francisco Franco, the monarchy is restored with Juan Carlos I of Spain.
• 1978 - Spanish Constitution of 1978
• 1981
  • 23 February - attempted coup known as 23-F.
• 1986
  • Spain joins the European Union.
• 1992
  • Summer Olympics held in Barcelona

[edit] 21st century

• 2002
  • 1 January - Spain adopts the Euro currency.
• 2004
  • 11 March - Madrid train bombings kill 191 and injure 2,050.