Spain -- Description and travel; Spain -- History; Spain -- Social life and customs
Visigoth kings rule from 414 to 711
Entry of Moors, battle of Guadelete, death of last
Visigothic king 31 July, 711
Reconquest begun by Pelayo at Covadonga in the Asturias 719
Toledo captured by Alphonso VI. 1085
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa 1212
Final union of Leon and Castile 1230
Alphonso X. (Law Codes: The Fuero Real and Las Siete
Partidas) 1252
Union of Aragon with Castile under Ferdinand and
Isabella 1474
Inquisition established (first Auto de Fe, 1488) 1484
Conquest of Granada 1492
Discovery of America 1492
Expulsion of Moors from Castile, 1501; from Granada 1502
Conquest of Naples and Sicily 1504
_Austrian Dynasty_:--Philip I. and Joanna 1504
Charles I. (Emperor of Germany, Charles V.) 1516
War of Comunidades of Castile, Battle of Villalar 1521
Battle of Pavia, Francis I. prisoner 1525
Capture of Tunis 1535
Abdication of Charles I. 1556
Philip II.:--Greatest extension of Spanish monarchy, comprising
Spain, Portugal, Naples, Sicily, Sardinia,
Milan, Roussillon, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg,
Franche-Comte, Tunis, Oran, the Canaries, Fernando
Po, St. Helena, The Americas, Philippine Isles, &c.
Insurrection of Low Countries 1566
First rebellion and expulsion of Moriscos 1568
Battle of Lepanto 1571
League of Provinces and independence of Holland, 25 Jan., 1579
Conquest of Portugal (1580-1640) 1580
Defeat of Armada 1588
Death of Philip II. 1598
Final expulsion of Moriscos 1609
Insurrection of Catalonia 1640
Loss of Portugal 1640
Battle of Rocroy 1643
Peace of the Pyrenees and marriage of Louis XIV. 1659
Death of Charles II., last of Austrian dynasty 29 Oct., 1700
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