Timeline of Málaga

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

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Ancient History

• 770 BCE - Malake (MLKʾ) founded by Phoenicians from Tyre.
• 205 BCE - Roman Republic in power in Malaca (Hispania).[1]
• 81-84 AD Lex Malacitana or Lex Flavia Malacitana is given.[2] Malaca was governed under this law, which granted free-born persons the privileges of Roman citizenship.[3]

Middle Ages

Early Middle Ages

• 571 CE - Visigoth Leovigild in power.[4]
• 711 CE - Umayyad invasion [5].
• 756 CE - Umayyad Abd al-Rahman I in power.[6]
• 907 CE - Mālaqah besieged by forces of Aban son of Abd Allah.[5]

High Middle Ages

• 1035 - Palace of the Alcazaba built.[7]
• 1079 - "Conquest of Malaga by Ibn Omar."[8]

Late Middle Ages

• 1232 - Mālaqah becomes part of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada.[5]
• 1350 - Traveler Ibn Battuta visits city.

Modern Period

• 1487 - Conquest of Málaga; Málaga is incorporated in the Crown of Castile and repopulated.[9]
• 1490 - Santiago el Mayor church built.[4]
• 1494 - Earthquake.[10]
• 1505 - Hospital of Santo Tomas founded.[4]
• 1522 - Málaga Cathedral construction begins.[11]
• 1540 - Buenavista Palace built.
• 1680 - 1680 Malaga earthquake.[10]
• 1719 - Málaga Cathedral construction completed.[12]
• 1741 - Yellow fever epidemic.[13]
• 1757 - Ermita de Zamarrilla (church) built.[14]
• 1785 - Consulado (merchant guild) established.[15]
• 1790 - Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Málaga active.[16]

Contemporary Period

19th century

See also: History of Málaga § 19th century

• 1804 - Epidemic.
• 1810 - City "sacked by the French."[9]
• 1830 - Cementerio Ingles (cemetery) established.[4]
• 1831 - 11 December: Execution of rebel José María de Torrijos y Uriarte.[9]
• 1834 - Heredia's La Constancia (forge) iron finery forge begins operating.[17]
• 1851 - Escuela Provincial de Bellas Artes (art school) opens.[18]
• 1857 - Population: 94,293.[19]
• 1854 - Bank of Málaga founded.[17]
• 1862 - Córdoba-Málaga railway begins operating.
• 1870 - Teatro Cervantes de Malaga (theatre) opens.[20]
• 1876 - Plaza de toros de La Malagueta (bullring) built.
• 1877 - Population: 115,882.[19]
• 1879 - Mercado de Atarazanas (market) built.
• 1881 - Pablo Picasso born in Malaga.[21]
• 1885 - Socialista Malagueña founded.[17]
• 1891
  • Calle Marqués de Larios (street) inaugurated.
  • English Church built on Avenida de Pries.[4]
• 1897 - Sociedad Propagandística del Clima y Embellecimiento de Málaga established.[17]
• 1899 - Monumento al Marqués de Larios (monument) erected.
• 1900 - Population: city 130,109; province 511,989.[9]

20th century

• 1904
  • Málaga Club de Fútbol ("The Anchovies") formed.
  • Villa Suecia built in El Limonar area.
• 1907 - September: Flood.[9]
• 1908 - Malaga-Vélez-Málaga railway begins operating.[9]
• 1913 - Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes (museum) founded.[18]
• 1918 - Antigua casa de socorro de La Trinidad built.
• 1925 - Alameda Principal opens to traffic.
• 1937
  • February: "Nationalists capture Malaga."[22]
  • Boinas Rojas newspaper begins publication.[23]
• 1940
  • La Tarde newspaper begins publication.[23]
  • Population: 238,085.[19]
• 1941 - La Rosaleda Stadium opens.
• 1945 - Cine Albeniz (cinema) opens.[24]
• 1947 - Museo Arqueológico Provincial (museum) founded.
• 1949 - Carranque (Málaga) housing construction begins.
• 1966 - Cine Astoria (cinema) opens.[24]
• 1970 - Population: 374,452.[19]
• 1972 - University of Málaga established.
• 1973 - Museo de Málaga established.[25]
• 1976 - Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares (Málaga) (museum) opens.
• 1979 - Pedro Aparicio Sánchez becomes mayor.
• 1981 - Population: 503,251.[19]
• 1982 - 13 September: Spantax airplane crash.[26]
• 1988
  • Fundación Picasso established.
  • Basílica de la Esperanza (Málaga) (church) built.
• 1991 - Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga (orchestra) active.
• 1992
  • Andalusia Technology Park (science complex) opens.
  • Baloncesto Málaga (basketball team) formed.
• 1995 - Celia Villalobos becomes mayor.
• 1998 - Málaga Spanish Film Festival begins.
• 1999
  • La Opinión de Málaga begins publication.
  • Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena (arena) opens.
• 2000
  • July: Politician Jose Maria Martin Carpena assassinated.[27]
  • Francisco de la Torre Prados becomes mayor.

21st century

See also: History of Málaga § 21st century

• 2003
  • Málaga Metropolitan Transport Consortium established.
  • Museo Picasso Málaga opens.
• 2004 - Málaga Hoy magazine begins publication.
• 2006 - 2006 European Cup (athletics) held.
• 2010
  • 29 September: 2010 Spain general strike.[28]
  • Population: 568,507.
• 2011 - Carmen Thyssen Museum opens.

See also

• History of Málaga
• List of mayors of Malaga
• 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, Granada, Jaén, Jerez de la Frontera, Seville
• List of municipalities in Andalusia

References

1. Bloom 2009.
2. Berger, Adolf (1953). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law. 43. American Philosophical Society. p. 446. ISBN 9780871694324.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
3. Galsterer, Hartmut; Cancik, Hubert; Schneider, Helmuth. "Lex Malacitana". Brill's New Pauly. Brill Online. Retrieved 11 June 2012 – via Reference. Antiquity volumes. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
4. Baedeker 1908.
5. Lévi-Provençal 1934.
6. Ring 1996.
7. "Spain: Malaga". Archnet. Archived from the original on 24 December 2007.
8. Henry Smith Williams, ed. (1908). "History in Outline". Parthians, Sassanids, and Arabs. Historians History of the World. Hooper & Jackson.
9. Britannica 1910.
10. Goded 2008.
11. John Tavenor Perry (1893). Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture. J. Murray.
12. Kelly 1910.
13. Reyes Saagun. Synopsis critico-medica, sobre la epidemia, que padecio la ilustre ciudad de Malaga en el año 1741 (in Spanish). Seville. circa 1741
14. "Catalogo de Edificaciones Protegidas: Zona M, Trinidad" [Catalogue of Protected Buildings: Area M, Trinidad], Plan General de Ordencion Urbanistica, Malaga (in Spanish), Ayuntamiento de Málaga, 2009, archived from the original on 7 November 2014, retrieved 7 November 2014
15. Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. (2013) [2005], "Merchant Guilds", in Cynthia Clark Northrup (ed.), Encyclopedia of World Trade, Routledge, ISBN 9780765682680
16. Braulio Antón Ramírez, ed. (1865). "Sociedades economicas del reino". Diccionario de bibliografía agronómica (in Spanish). Madrid: Manuel Rivadeneyra. pp. 390–409 – via HathiTrust.
17. "Historia" (in Spanish). Ayuntamiento de Málaga. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
18. "Historia" (in Spanish). Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Telmo de Málaga. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
19. "Alterations to the municipalities in the Population Censuses since 1842: Malaga". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain). Retrieved 30 November 2014.
20. "History". Teatro Cervantes de Malaga. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
21. Patrick O'Brian (1994). "Chapter 1". Picasso: A Biography. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-31107-5.
22. Francisco J. Romero Salvadó (2013). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5784-1.
23. "Historias de Malaga: Hace 70 años del primer número de La Tarde" [Malaga History: 70 years after the first issue of La Tarde], Diario Sur (in Spanish), 28 February 2010
24. "Movie Theaters in Malaga". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
25. "Museum of Malaga: History". Portal de Museos de Andalucia. Regional Government of Andalusia. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
26. "Cronología de accidentes aéreos en España" [Chronology of air crashes in Spain], El Pais (in Spanish), 8 August 2008
27. "Huge crowd condemns ETA shooting", BBC News, 17 July 2000
28. "What the Recession Looks Like in Spain". City Lab. Atlantic Monthly Group. 2 May 2012.

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia and Catalan Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

Published in the 18th-19th centuries

• Francis Carter (1777), "(Malaga)", A Journey from Gibraltar to Malaga, London: Printed for T. Cadell
• M.M. Noah (1819), "(Malaga)", Travels in England, France, Spain, and the Barbary States, New-York: Kirk and Mercein, OCLC 1338665
• Josiah Conder (1830), "Malaga", The Modern Traveller, London: J.Duncan
• Richard Ford (1855). "Malaga.". A Handbook for Travellers in Spain (3rd ed.). London: J. Murray. OCLC 2145740.
• William Smith, ed. (1872) [1854]. "Malaca". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
• John Ramsay McCulloch (1880), "Malaga", in Hugh G. Reid (ed.), A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
• John Lomas, ed. (1889). "Malaga.". O'Shea's Guide to Spain and Portugal (8th ed.). Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black.

Published in the 20th century

• "Malaga". Spain and Portugal (3rd ed.). Leipsic: Karl Baedeker. 1908. OCLC 1581249.
• "Malaga", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• Blanche M. Kelly (1910). "Malaga". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
• Évariste Lévi-Provençal (1934). "Malaga". Encyclopedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill. pp. 187–188.
• M Barke, M Newton. Promoting sustainable tourism in an urban context: recent developments in Malaga City, Andalusia. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 1995.
• Trudy Ring, ed. (1996). "Malaga". Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. OCLC 31045650.

Published in the 21st century

• T. Goded; et al. (2008). "The 1494 and 1680 Málaga (southern Spain) earthquakes". Seismological Research Letters. 79 (5): 707–715. doi:10.1785/gssrl.79.5.707.
• Bloom and Blair, ed. (2009). "Malaga". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. p. 436. ISBN 978-0-19-530991-1.

in Spanish

• "Malaga", Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar (in Spanish), 11, Madrid, 1848, pp. 66+ (Historia section)
• Benito Vilá (1861). Guia del viajero en Málaga [Traveler's Guide to Malaga] (in Spanish). Ilustración Española.

External links

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