Timeline of Valencia

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Valencia, Spain.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 20th century

• 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 [es] 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 [es]

Other cities in the autonomous Valencian Community:^(es)

• Timeline of Alicante

References

1. Ring 1996.
2. Britannica 1910.
3. Henry Smith Williams, ed. (1908). "History in Outline". Parthians, Sassanids, and Arabs. Historians History of the World. Hooper & Jackson.
4. Ruiz Amado 1912.
5. Haydn 1910.
6. John Tavenor Perry (1893). Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture. J. Murray.
7. Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. (2013) [2005], "Merchant Guilds", in Cynthia Clark Northrup (ed.), Encyclopedia of World Trade, Routledge, ISBN 9780765682680
8. Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
9. F. J. Norton (1966). Printing in Spain 1501-1520. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-13118-6.
10. George Ticknor (1888), History of Spanish Literature, vol. 1 (6th ed.), Boston: Houghton, Mifflin (see also index entry for Valencia)
11. 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.
12. "Movie Theaters in Valencia". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
13. "Alterations to the municipalities in the Population Censuses since 1842: Valencia". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain). Retrieved 30 November 2014.
14. Francisco J. Romero Salvadó (2013). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5784-1.
15. "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

Further information (in Spanish): Bibliography of Valencia ^[es]

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.
• "Valencia (city)" . 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.

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