Granada chronology

The following is a chronology of the history of the city of Granada, Andalusia, Spain.

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Before 16th century

See also: Ilíberis

• 64 CE - Diocese of Granada established (approximate date).[1]
• 8th century - City wall construction begins.
• 713 CE - Muslims in power.[2]
• 1066 - Massacred the Jewish population of the city 1066 Granada massacre
• 1090 - Almoravids in power.[2]
• 1166 - Almohads in power.[2]
• 1238 - City becomes capital of the Nasrid Emirate of Granada, Al-Andalus;[2] Muhammad ibn Nasr in power.[3]
• 1248 - Alhambra construction begins.[4]
• 1309 - Generalife built.[5]
• 1319 - Alcázar Genil built.[2]
• 1330s - Corral del Carbón built.[6]
• 1349 - Yusufiyya Madrasa established.[3]
• 1367 - Maristan (hospital) built.[2]
• 1370 - Alhambra's Palace of the Myrtles built.[5]
• 1391 - Alhambra's Palace of the Lions built.[5]
• 1410s - Antequeruela settlement developed.[3]
• 1492
  • City becomes capital of the Kingdom of Granada (Crown of Castile).
  • Edict of Expulsion of Jews issued.[1]
• 1493 - Hernando de Talavera becomes archbishop.
• 1496 - Printing press in use.[7]
• 1499 - Muslim rebellions in Granada province.[8]

16th-19th centuries

• 1501 - City divided into 23 parishes.[2]
• 1504 - Hospital Real de Granada founded.[2]
• 1505 - Real Chancillería de Granada established.[2]
• 1516 - Carthusian monastery built outside city.[9]
• 1521 - Capilla Real built.[2]
• 1525 - Burial of monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella in the Capilla Real.[10]
• 1531 - University of Granada founded.[9]
• 1587 - Chancillería (tribunal building) constructed.[2]
• 1593 - Theatre built.[11]
• 1614 - Expulsion of the Moriscos.[12]
• 1624 - April: Philip IV visits city.[13]
• 1703 - Granada Cathedral built.[9]
• 1764 - Gacetilla Curiosa begins publication.[11]
• 1810 - Occupation of city by French forces begins.[10]
• 1812 - Occupation of city by French forces ends.[10]
• 1833 - Province of Granada established.[10]
• 1839 - Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada established.[14]
• 1843 - Alcaiceria (bazaar) burns down.[15]
• 1879 - Provincial Archaeological Museum of Granada established.[14]
• 1892 - Caja General de Ahorros de Granada (bank) founded.
• 1900 - Population: 75,900.[9]

20th century

• 1910 - Cafe Futbol in business.[16]
• 1920 - Population: 103,368.[17]
• 1929 - Casa de los Tiros Museum established.[14]
• 1931 - Granada Club de Fútbol formed.
• 1936
  • March: Post-election unrest.[18]
  • 19 August: Death of poet Lorca in Alfacar.
• 1940 - Population: 155,405.[17]
• 1961 - Cine Madrigal (cinema) opens.[19]
• 1972 - Airport opens.[20]
• 1981 - Population: 262,182.[17]
• 1984 - Alhambra declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• 1986 - Huerta de San Vicente Museum (of Lorca) active (approximate date).
• 1991
  • Jesús Quero Molina becomes mayor.
  • Population: 287,864.[17]
• 1995
  • Parque de las Ciencias (science museum)[21] and Estadio Nuevo Los Cármenes (stadium) open.
  • Gabriel Díaz Berbel becomes mayor.[22]
• 1999 - José Enrique Moratalla becomes mayor.

21st century

• 2003
  • Mosque built.[23][24]
  • José Torres Hurtado becomes mayor.
• 2004
  • Granada Atlético Club de Fútbol formed.
  • Kinepolis Granada (cinema) opens near city.[19]
• 2007 - Granada metro construction begins.[25]
• 2008 - Hay Festival of literature held.[26]
• 2014 - CajaGranada Fundación established.

See also

• Granada history
• Timeline of the Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula, circa 8th-15th century CE
• Timelines of other cities in the autonomous community of Andalusia: Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Jaén, Jerez de la Frontera, Málaga, Seville
• List of municipalities in Andalusia

References

1. F. Fita (1913). "Granada". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
2. Colum Hourihane (2012). "Granada". Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5.
3. L. Patrick Harvey (2013). "Granada". In E. Michael Gerli (ed.). Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-136-77161-3.
4. John Tavenor Perry (1893). Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture. J. Murray.
5. "Archnet". Missing or empty |url= (help)
6. "Granada's Top 10 Moorish Secrets", The Guardian, 3 April 2008
7. F. J. Norton (1966). Printing in Spain 1501-1520. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-13118-6.
8. M. Ali Kattani (1997). "Muslims in Spain after the Fall of Granada". Islamic Studies. 36 (4): 613–631. JSTOR 23076032.
9. "Granada", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
10. Trudy Ring, ed. (1996). "Granada". Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 296+. OCLC 31045650.
11. James Casey (2007). Family and Community in Early Modern Spain: The Citizens of Granada, 1570–1739. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-46237-2.
12. Abraham Rees (1819), "Granada", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
13. A. Katie Harris (2010). From Muslim to Christian Granada: Inventing a City's Past in Early Modern Spain. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9192-2.
14. "Our Museums: Granada". Portal de Museos de Andalucia. Regional Government of Andalusia. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
15. C.F. Seybold (1927). "Granada". Encyclopedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill. pp. 175+.
16. "Spain: Granada". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
17. "Alterations to the municipalities in the Population Censuses since 1842: Granada". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain). Retrieved 30 November 2014.
18. Roberto Villa García (2009). "The Failure of Electoral Modernization: The Elections of May 1936 in Granada". Journal of Contemporary History. 44 (3): 401–429. doi:10.1177/0022009409104116. JSTOR 40543041.
19. "Movie Theaters in Granada". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
20. "48 Hours In: Granada, Spain", The Independent, UK, 1 October 2005
21. Domingo Ródenas de Moya, ed. (2009). Más es más: sociedad y cultura en la España democrática, 1986-2008 (in Spanish). Iberoamericana Editorial. ISBN 978-84-8489-461-2.
22. "Necrologica: Gabriel Díaz Berbel, el más singular alcalde de Granada", El País (in Spanish), Madrid, 18 June 2011
23. "Granada Journal; Where the Moors Held Sway, Allah Is Praised Again", New York Times, 21 October 2003
24. "Spanish mosque calms extremism fears", BBC News, 9 March 2004
25. "Spain's town hall meltdown", The Independent, UK, 30 October 2011
26. "Hay puts focus on Arabic literature as festival is exported to Granada", The Independent, UK, 12 March 2008

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Granada", New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
• David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Granada". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
• Arthur de Capell Brooke (1831), "(Granada)", Sketches in Spain and Morocco, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, OCLC 13783280
• Richard Ford (1855), "Granada", A Handbook for Travellers in Spain (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray, OCLC 2145740
• John Lomas, ed. (1889), "Granada", O'Shea's Guide to Spain and Portugal (8th ed.), Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black
• Manuel Gómez-Moreno (1892). Guía de Granada [Guide to Granada] (in Spanish). Indalecio Ventura.
• Ángel Ganivet (1896). Granada la bella [Granada the Beautiful] (in Spanish). 1905 ed.

Published in the 20th century

• "Granada", Jewish Encyclopedia, 6, New York, 1907
• "Granada", Spain and Portugal (3rd ed.), Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1908, OCLC 1581249
• Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Granada", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
• J. Bosque Maurel (1962), Geografía urbana de Granada (in Spanish)
• Gallego Burin (1982). Granada: Guia artistica e historica de la ciudad (in Spanish).
• "Granada", Spain, Portugal, & Morocco, Let's Go, St. Martin's Press, 1990, pp. 194+, OL 10384941M
• J Dickie. Granada: A case study of Arab urbanism in Muslim Spain. 1992.
• "Andalucia: Granada", Spain (8th ed.), Rough Guides, 1999, pp. 291+, OL 9003565M

Published in the 21st century

• Juan Carlos Rodriguez (2001). "(Granada)". In Joan Ramon Resina (ed.). Iberian Cities. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-53463-8. (discusses Ganivet's writing about Granada)
• Teodoro Luque-Martínez and Francisco Muñoz-Leiva. "City benchmarking: a methodological proposal referring specifically to Granada." Cities 22.6 (2005): 411-423.
• Athena C. Syrakoy (2007). "Maristan and its role in Nasrid Granada". In Amira K. Bennison and Alison L. Gascoigne (ed.). Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-09650-3.
• D Coleman. Creating Christian Granada: Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492–1600. 2013

External links

• Map of Granada, 1943
• Europeana. Items related to Granada, various dates.
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Granada, various dates