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The Visigothic KIngdom extended across spain
The earliest Visigoths were a Germanic group. In the 300s, the Goths on the north shore of the Black Sea. they moved into the territory now occupied by Portugal and Spain, together with the province of Narbonne. Their center of empire was located in Toledo. -
Jan 1, 711
Muslims from North Africa take over
In 711 CE Tariq ibn Ziyad, the governor of Tangiers, landed in Gibraltar. The Visigothic survivors fled to the north of Spain, and within a few years, the Muslims had taken over the rest of the Iberian Peninsula bar a few areas in the Asturian Mountai -
Jan 1, 1208
Muslims Founded Spain's first University
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Dec 11, 1474
The Reign of Isabella began
Isabella of Castile was a powerful queen as Europe passed from the Late Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Isabella was queen of Castile from 1474 to 1505, and she had to fight a civil war to secure her throne. Her marriage to Ferdinand II of Aragon began a thirty five year joint rule of a unified Spain by the Catholic Monarchs -
Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus Arrives in the New World
Christopher Columbus arrives in the New World, beginning an era of exploration and conquest.During his first voyage in 1492, instead of reaching Japan as he had intended, Columbus landed in the Bahamas archipelago,Over the course of three more voyages, Columbus visited the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coas -
Jan 1, 1495
Spain Gets the Canary Islands
On 25 December 1494, 5000 Guanches under Bencomo were routed in the second battle of the Acentejo. The spot, only a few kilometres south of La Matanza, is still called La Victoria (Victory) today. -
The British Forces defeat the Spanish Armada
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Spain Gets Independence from Napoleon
The Peninsular War was a military conflict between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war started when French and Spanish armies occupied Portugal in 1807, and escalated in 1808 when France turned on Spain, its ally until then -
Spanish-American War
On April 25, 1898 the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898. As a result Spain lost its control over the remains of its overseas empire -- Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines Islands, Guam, and other islands. -
Spain Joins NATO
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Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Spain, in 1992. -
Toxic Spill
Toxic Spill in Spain national park caused from mineral plant owned by Canada -
Deadly Terrorist Attack
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Spain Legalizes Same Sex Marriage
Same-sex marriage in Spain has been legal since 3 July 2005. In 2004, the nation's newly elected social democratic government, led by Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, began a campaign for its legalization, including the right of adoption by same-sex couples.[1] After much debate, a law permitting same-sex marriage was passed by the Cortes Generales (Spain's bicameral parliament, composed of the Senate and the Congress of Deputies) on 30 June 2005 and published on 2 July 2005. The law -
Spain Becomes President of the EU
Spain assumed the rotating presidency of the European Union at the start of the year, promising to make the Lisbon treaty its top priority.Over the next half year, Spain will seek to strengthen the EU’s role as a global player, working closely with new EU president Herman Van Rompuy to project
