Timeline of Valencia
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 - Romans in power.[1]
- 1010 CE - City becomes capital of the Taifa of Valencia.
- 1064 CE - Al-Mamun of Toledo in power.[2]
- 1094 - Castilian Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar in power.[3]
- 1109 - Almoravid Masdali in power.[3]
- 1238 - City becomes capital of the Aragonese Kingdom of Valencia.[4]
- 1262 - Valencia Cathedral construction begins.[5]
- 1349 - Torres de Serranos (gate) built.[5]
- 1444 - Puerta de Cuarto (gate) built.[5]
- 1473 - Printing press in use.[6]
- 1474 - "Poetical contest" held.[7]
- 1483 - Llotja de la Seda construction begins.[1]
- 1568 - Juan de Ribera becomes archbishop of Valencia.[3]
- 1707 - Bourbons in power.[4]
- 1812 - 9 January: City taken by French forces.[4]
- 1840 - Domingo Mascarós becomes mayor.
- 1858 - Plaza de Toros de Valencia (stadium) opens.
- 1887 - Population: 170,763.[4]
- 1897 - Population: 204,768.[4]
20th century
- 1913 - Museu de Belles Arts de València established.
- 1915 - Teatro Olympia (theatre) opens.[8]
- 1917 - Estació del Nord (railway station) opens.
- 1930 - Population: 320,195.[9]
- 1933
- December: "Anarchist uprising."[10]
- Valencia Airport built.
- 1940 - Population: 450,756.[9]
- 1946 - Cine Majestic (cinema) opens.[8]
- 1957 - October: 1957 Valencia flood.
- 1958 - Adolfo Rincón de Arellano Garcia becomes mayor.
- 1970 - Population: 653,690.[9]
- 1988 - Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (railway) begins operating.
- 1989 - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern opens.
- 1991 - Rita Barberá Nolla becomes mayor.[11]
- 1995
- Metrovalencia in operation.
- Eduardo Zaplana becomes president of the regional Generalitat Valenciana government.[11]
21st century
- 2006 - 3 July: Valencia Metro derailment.
- 2010 - Valenbisi bikeshare begins operating.[12]
- 2013 - Population: 792,303.
See also
- History of Valencia
- List of mayors of Valencia (in Spanish)
- Other cities in Spain
- Timeline of Barcelona
- Timeline of Bilbao
- Timeline of Córdoba
- Timeline of Granada
- Timeline of Madrid
- Timeline of Málaga
- Timeline of Pamplona
- Timeline of Santander
- Timeline of Seville
- Timeline of Valladolid
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Trudy Ring, ed. (1996). "Valencia". Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 734+. OCLC 31045650.
- ↑ Henry Smith Williams, ed. (1908). "History in Outline". Parthians, Sassanids, and Arabs. Historians History of the World. Hooper & Jackson.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ramon Ruiz Amado (1912). "Valencia". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Valencia", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 John Tavenor Perry (1893). Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture. J. Murray.
- ↑ 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 1 (6th ed.), Boston: Houghton, Mifflin (see also index entry for Valencia)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Movie Theaters in Valencia". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved November 2014.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Alterations to the municipalities in the Population Censuses since 1842: Valencia". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain). Retrieved November 2014.
- ↑ Francisco J. Romero Salvadó (2013). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5784-1.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Spain's municipal and regional elections: a dry run for next year", The Economist, 22 May 2003
- ↑ Javier Molina-García et al. (2013). "Bicycling to university: evaluation of a bicycle-sharing program in Spain". Health Promotion International. ISSN 1460-2245.
This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- Josiah Conder (1830), "Valencia", The Modern Traveller, London: J.Duncan
- 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.
- "Valencia", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
External links
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- 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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