Timeline of Valencia

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

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Prior to 20th century

• 137 BCE - Foundation of Valentia Edetanorum ^es by the Romans.[1]
• 1010 CE - City becomes capital of the Taifa of Valencia.
• 1064 CE - Al-Mamun of Toledo in power.[2]
• 1094 - Castilian Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar in power.[3]
• 1109 - Almoravid Masdali in power.[3]
• 1238 - City becomes capital of the Aragonese Kingdom of Valencia.[4]
• 1261 - Furs of Valencia (law) promulgated.
• 1262 - Valencia Cathedral construction begins.[5]
• 1283 - Consulate of the Sea established.[6]
• 1349 - Torres de Serranos (gate) built.[5]
• 1380 - Public clock installed (approximate date).[7]
• 1444 - Torres de Cuarto ^es (gate) built.[5]
• 1473 - Printing press in use.[8]
• 1474 - "Poetical contest" held.[9]
• 1483 - Llotja de la Seda construction begins.[1]
• 1568 - Juan de Ribera becomes Archbishop of Valencia.[3]
• 1707 - Bourbons in power.[4]
• 1776 - Real Sociedad Económica Valenciana de Amigos del País established.[10]
• 1812 - 9 January: City taken by French forces ^es.[4]
• 1840 - Domingo Mascarós ^es becomes mayor.
• 1858 - Plaza de Toros de Valencia opens.
• 1887 - Population: 170,763.[4]
• 1897 - Population: 204,768.[4]

20th century

• 1913 - Museu de Belles Arts de València established.
• 1915 - Teatro Olympia ^es opens.[11]
• 1917 - Estació del Nord (railway station) opens.
• 1930 - Population: 320,195.[12]
• 1933
  • December: "Anarchist uprising ^es."[13]
  • Valencia Airport built.
• 1937 - The city becomes the capital of the Republican controlled Spain.
• 1940 - Population: 450,756.[12]
• 1946 - Cine Majestic (cinema) opens.[11]
• 1957 - October: 1957 Valencia flood.
• 1958 - Adolfo Rincón de Arellano Garcia becomes mayor.
• 1970 - Population: 653,690.[12]
• 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.[14]
• 1995
  • Metrovalencia in operation.
  • Eduardo Zaplana becomes president of the regional Generalitat Valenciana government.[14]

21st century

• 2006 - 3 July: Valencia Metro derailment (43 dead)
• 2010 - Valenbisi bikeshare begins operating.[15]
• 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

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

• Timeline of Alicante

References

1. Ring 1996.
2. Henry Smith Williams, ed. (1908). "History in Outline". Parthians, Sassanids, and Arabs. Historians History of the World. Hooper & Jackson.
3. Ruiz Amado 1912.
4. Haydn 1910.
5. John Tavenor Perry (1893). Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture. J. Murray.
6. Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. (2013) [2005], "Merchant Guilds", in Cynthia Clark Northrup (ed.), Encyclopedia of World Trade, Routledge, ISBN 9780765682680
7. Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
8. F. J. Norton (1966). Printing in Spain 1501-1520. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-13118-6.
9. George Ticknor (1888), History of Spanish Literature, 1 (6th ed.), Boston: Houghton, Mifflin (see also index entry for Valencia)
10. Braulio Antón Ramírez, ed. (1865). "Sociedades economicas del reino". Diccionario de bibliografía agronómica (in Spanish). Madrid: Manuel Rivadeneyra. pp. 390–409 – via HathiTrust.
11. "Movie Theaters in Valencia". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
12. "Alterations to the municipalities in the Population Censuses since 1842: Valencia". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain). Retrieved 30 November 2014.
13. Francisco J. Romero Salvadó (2013). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5784-1.
14. "Spain's municipal and regional elections: a dry run for next year", The Economist, 22 May 2003
15. Javier Molina-García; et al. (2013). "Bicycling to university: evaluation of a bicycle-sharing program in Spain". Health Promotion International. ISSN 1460-2245.

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

See also: Bibliography of Valencia (in Spanish)

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.
• 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", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
• Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Valencia", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
• Ramón Ruiz Amado (1912). "Valencia". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
• Trudy Ring, ed. (1996). "Valencia". Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 734+. OCLC 31045650.

External links

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