The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Valencia, Spain.
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Prior to 20th century
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- 137 BCE – Foundation of Valentia Edetanorum es by the Romans.[1]
- 413 – Taken by the Visigoths.[2]
- 714 – Taken by Moors.[2]
- 1010 CE – City becomes capital of the Taifa of Valencia.
- 1021 – Independent Moorish kingdom of Valencia was established[2]
- 1064 CE – Al-Mamun of Toledo in power.[3]
- 1094 – Castilian Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar in power.[4]
- 1109 – Almoravid Masdali in power.[4]
- 1238 – City becomes capital of the Aragonese Kingdom of Valencia.[5]
- 1261 – Furs of Valencia (law) promulgated.
- 1262 – Valencia Cathedral construction begins.[6][2]
- 1283 – Consulate of the Sea established.[7]
- 1349 – Torres de Serranos (gate) built.[6]
- 1380 – Public clock installed (approximate date).[8]
- 1444 – Torres de Cuarto es (gate) built.[6]
- 1459 – Valencia Cathedral lengthened in its original Gothic style.[2]
- 1473 – Printing press in use.[9]
- 1474 – "Poetical contest" held.[10]
- 1483 – Llotja de la Seda construction begins.[1]
- 1499 – University of Valencia founded.[2]
- 1568 – Juan de Ribera becomes Archbishop of Valencia.[4]
- 1707 – Bourbons in power.[5]
- 1776 – Real Sociedad Económica Valenciana de Amigos del País established.[11]
- 1812 – 9 January: City taken by French forces es and the library robbed of its 60,000 volumes.[5][2]
- 1840 – Domingo Mascarós es becomes mayor.
- 1858 – Plaza de Toros de Valencia opens.
- 1887 – Population: 170,763.[5]
- 1897 – Population: 204,768.[5]
20th century
- 1913 – Museu de Belles Arts de València established.
- 1915 – Teatro Olympia es opens.[12]
- 1917 – Estació del Nord (railway station) opens.
- 1930 – Population: 320,195.[13]
- 1933
- December: "Anarchist uprising es."[14]
- Valencia Airport built.
- 1937 – The city becomes the capital of the Republican controlled Spain.
- 1940 – Population: 450,756.[13]
- 1946 – Cine Majestic (cinema) opens.[12]
- 1957 – October: 1957 Valencia flood.
- 1958 – Adolfo Rincón de Arellano Garcia becomes mayor.
- 1970 – Population: 653,690.[13]
- 1984 – Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant commissioned in region of city of Valencia.
- 1988 – Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (railway) begins operating.
- 1989 – Institut Valencià d'Art Modern opens.
- 1991 – Rita Barberá Nolla becomes mayor.[15]
- 1995
- Metrovalencia in operation.
- Eduardo Zaplana becomes president of the regional Generalitat Valenciana government.[15]
21st century
- 2006 – 3 July: Valencia Metro derailment (43 dead)
- 2013 – Population: 792,303.
- 2015 – Valencia City Council election, 2015 held; Joan Ribó elected mayor.
See also
- Valencia history
- History of Valencia
- List of mayors of Valencia
Other cities in the autonomous Valencian Community:(es)
References
- ^ a b Ring 1996.
- ^ a b c d e f g Britannica 1910.
- ^ Henry Smith Williams, ed. (1908). "History in Outline". Parthians, Sassanids, and Arabs. Historians History of the World. Hooper & Jackson.
- ^ a b c Ruiz Amado 1912.
- ^ a b c d e Haydn 1910.
- ^ a b c John Tavenor Perry (1893). Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture. J. Murray.
- ^ Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. (2013) [2005], "Merchant Guilds", in Cynthia Clark Northrup (ed.), Encyclopedia of World Trade, Routledge, ISBN 9780765682680
- ^ Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
- ^ F. J. Norton (1966). Printing in Spain 1501-1520. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-13118-6.
- ^ George Ticknor (1888), History of Spanish Literature, vol. 1 (6th ed.), Boston: Houghton, Mifflin (see also index entry for Valencia)
- ^ Braulio Antón Ramírez, ed. (1865). "Sociedades economicas del reino". Diccionario de bibliografía agronómica (in Spanish). Madrid: Manuel Rivadeneyra. pp. 390–409. hdl:2027/ucm.5309027638 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ a b "Movie Theaters in Valencia". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ^ a b c "Alterations to the municipalities in the Population Censuses since 1842: Valencia". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain). Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ^ Francisco J. Romero Salvadó (2013). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5784-1.
- ^ a b "Spain's municipal and regional elections: a dry run for next year", The Economist, 22 May 2003
This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.
Bibliography
- Published in the 19th century
- Josiah Conder (1830), "Valencia", The Modern Traveller, London: J.Duncan
- Thomas Henry Dyer (1872) [1854]. "Valentia". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray. hdl:2027/hvd.ah5cur.
- Richard Stephen Charnock (1894), "Valencia", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Spain and Portugal, W.J. Adams & Sons, OCLC 36885426
- Published in the 20th century
- "Valencia". Spain and Portugal (3rd ed.). Leipsic: Karl Baedeker. 1908. OCLC 1581249.
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 845–846.
- Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Valencia", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- Ramón Ruiz Amado (1912). "Valencia". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Trudy Ring, ed. (1996). "Valencia". Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Vol. 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 734+. ISBN 9781134259588. OCLC 31045650.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Valencia.
- Map of Valencia, 1943
- Europeana. Items related to Valencia, various dates.
- Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Valencia, various dates
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