Timeline of Valencia
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Valencia, Spain.
Prior to 20th century
- 137 BCE – Foundation of Valentia Edetanorum es by the Romans.
- 413 – Taken by the Visigoths.
- 714 – Taken by Moors.
- 1010 CE – City becomes capital of the Taifa of Valencia.
- 1021 – Independent Moorish kingdom of Valencia was established
- 1064 CE – Al-Mamun of Toledo in power.
- 1094 – Castilian Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar in power.
- 1109 – Almoravid Masdali in power.
- 1147 – Ibn Mardanish re-establishes Taifa of Valencia, uniting it with Murcia
- 1172 – Almohad Caliphate takes control
- 1229 – Taifa re-established by Zayyan Ibn Mardanish
- 1238 – City conquered by the Christians and becomes capital of the Aragonese Kingdom of Valencia.
- 1261 – Furs of Valencia promulgated.
- 1262 – Valencia Cathedral construction begins.
- 1283 – Consulate of the Sea established.
- 1349 – Torres de Serranos built.
- 1380 – Public clock installed.
- 1391 – Massacre of 1391 against the Jews of Valencia
- 1444 – Torres de Quart built.
- 1459 – Valencia Cathedral lengthened in its original Gothic style.
- 1473 – Printing press in use.
- 1474 – "Poetical contest" held.
- 1483 – Llotja de la Seda construction begins.
- 1499 – University of Valencia founded.
- 1568 – Juan de Ribera becomes Archbishop of Valencia.
- 1707 – Bourbons in power.
- 1776 – established.
- 1812 – 9 January: City taken by French forces es and the library robbed of its 60,000 volumes.
- 1840 – Domingo Mascarós es becomes mayor.
- 1858 – Plaza de Toros de Valencia opens.
- 1868 — Plaza de la Reina begins with a small triangular plaza.
- 1887 – Population: 170,763.
- 1897 – Population: 204,768.
20th century
- 1913 – Museu de Belles Arts de València established.
- 1915 – Teatro Olympia es opens.
- 1917 – Estació del Nord opens.
- 1930 – Population: 320,195.
- 1933
- * December: "Anarchist uprising es."
- * Valencia Airport built.
- 1937 – The city becomes the capital of the Republican controlled Spain.
- 1940 – Population: 450,756.
- 1946 – Cine Majestic opens.
- 1957 – October: 1957 Valencia flood.
- 1958 – Adolfo Rincón de Arellano Garcia becomes mayor.
- 1970 – Population: 653,690.
- 1970 - Plaza de la Reina completed.
- 1984 – Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant commissioned in region of city of Valencia.
- 1988 – Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana begins operating.
- 1989 – Institut Valencià d'Art Modern opens.
- 1991 – Rita Barberá Nolla becomes mayor.
- 1995
- * Metrovalencia in operation.
- * Eduardo Zaplana becomes president of the regional Generalitat Valenciana government.
21st century
- 2006 – 3 July: Valencia Metro derailment
- 2013 – Population: 792,303.
- 2015 – Valencia City Council election, 2015 held; Joan Ribó elected mayor.
- 2022 - Plaza de la Reina renovation completed.