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Timeline
(12000 BC) Stone Age hunters paint sophisticated cave art near Santander
(1100 BC) Southern Iberia colonized by Phonecians
(228 BC) Carthaginians occupy southern Iberia
(218-220 BC) Iberian Peninsula is taken over by Romans in Second Punic War
(74) Roman citizenship given to inhabitants of Iberia
(237) Carthage invades the Iberian Peninsula
(711) Iberia invaded by Muslim army
(756) Cordoba capital of new independent Emirate formed in Iberia
(913) Christians set up capital in Leon after northern Spain territories are retaken
(1013) Spain seperated into small kingdoms
(1085) Christian kingdom takes over Toledo
(1137) Kingdom of Aragon formed
(1160-63) Muslim sect now controls Al-Andalus
(1212) Reconquista eliminates Moorish rule
(1248) Fernando III of Castille takes Seville
(1469) Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile marry, bringing much needed stability
(1478) The Catholic Spanish Inquisition begins
(1492) Granada captured, Moors defeated and Christopher Columbus began his voyages of discovery
(1702-14) War of Spanish Succession. Bourbon dynasty accepts Spanish throne
(1808-14) Peninsular War against Napoleon
(1898) Spanish-American five-month War; Spain losses colonies including Cuba, Guam and Puerto Rico
(1931) Spain becomes a Republic
(1936-39) Francisco Franco forces victorious in Spanish Civil War; dictatorship established
(1959) ETA established - a soon to be powerful Basque Fatherland and Freedom group
(1968) West African colony of Spanish Guinea is granted independence as Equatorial Guinea
(1973) Basque nationalists assassinate Prime Minister Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco in Madrid
(1975) Franco dies, Juan Carlos de Borbon is declared king. Spain becomes a constitutional monarchy
(1977) Democratic elections held
(1978) Spain's new constitution establishes a parliamentary monarchy
(1980) ETA fighting kills 118 people
(1981) Military coup fails
(1982) Spain joins NATO
(1986) Spain joins EEC
(1992) Barcelona hosts Summer Olympic games; Seville hosts Expo 92
(1995) Spain joins European Community
(1996) Jose Maria Aznar becomes Prime Minister
(1998) Donana National Park severely contaminated by a toxic waste spill
(2000) ETA responsible for Madrid car bombings
(2002) All currency replaced by the Euro
(2002) Oil tanker spill on north coast
(2003) 62 Spanish peacekeepers returning from Afghanistan killed in plane crash in Turkey
(2004) Islamic terrorists attack the Atocha train station in Madrid with bombs; 191 people killed and hundreds injured
(2004) Zapatero elected Prime Minister, Spanish troops leave Iraq
(2005) Madrid car bombing kills 40
(2006) ETA declares ceasefire
(2006) Over 20,000 illegal immigrants from Africa arrive in the Canary Islands
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