Timeline of Alicante

Last updated September 20, 2023

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

Prior to 20th century

718 – Moors in power.^[1]
1240 – Valencian moor Zayyan ibn Mardanix [ ca ] became governor (rais) of Laqant, until he departed to exile in 1247.
1247 – Castle of Alacant is defended by Valencian moor al-Azraq.
1252 – Owned by Alfonso X.^[2]
1265 – Colonized mainly by Catalan population during an ongoing military campaign led by James I of Aragon. Catalan became traditional language in Alicante since then until nowadays.
1296/1304 – Alicante becomes part of the Kingdom of Valencia per Treaty of Torrellas.^[1]^[2]
1331 – Attempted siege of Alicante by Moorish forces.^[1]
1490 – Given the status of a town by Ferdinand II.^[2]
1662 – San Nicolás de Bari church built.^[3]
1709 – Siege of Alicante by French forces.^[1]
1780 – Alicante City Hall [ ca ] built (approximate date).^{[ citation needed ]}
1785 – Consulado (merchant guild) established.^[4]
1797 – Population: 20,000.^[2]
1822 – Diputación Provincial de Alicante [ es ] (governing body) established.
1834 – Alicante Sociedad Económica de los Amigos del País established.^[5]
1842 – Population: 19,021.^[6]
1847 – Teatro Principal (Alicante) [ es ] (theatre) built.^[7]
1855 – Public library established.^[8]
1858 – Madrid-Alicante railway [ es ] begins operating.^[7]
1860 – Walls of Alicante [ es ] dismantling begins.
1873 – Siege of Alicante (1873) [ es ] by Federalists of Cartagena.^[1]
1885 – Murcia-Alicante railway built.
1886 – Parque de Canalejas [ es ] (park) created.^[9]
1888 – Plaza de toros de Alicante [ es ] (bullring) built.
1900
- Palacio de Justicia de Alicante [ es ] (courthouse) built.
- Population: 50,142.^[10]

20th century

1902 – Alicante anthem [ es ] composed by Juan Latorre Baeza [ es ].
1906 – Diario de Alicante [ es ] newspaper begins publication.
1913 – El Luchador (Alicante) [ es ] newspaper begins publication.^[11]
1919 – Club Natación Alicante [ es ] (football club) formed.
1921 – Mercado Central de Alicante [ es ] built on Avenida de Alfonso el Sabio [ es ].
1922 – Hércules CF (football club) active.
1924 – Cine Monumental (cinema) built.
1925
- Cementerio de Alicante [ es ] (cemetery) established.
- Florida Alta [ es ] barrio developed.
1930
- Fountain installed in the Plaza de los Luceros [ es ].
- Population: 73,071.^[6]
1931
- 12 April: Municipal election held.^(es)
- Palacio Provincial de Alicante [ es ] built.
1932 – Archaeological Museum of Alicante opens.
1938 – 25 May: Bombing of Alicante during the Spanish Civil War.^[12]
1939
- Campo de concentración de Los Almendros [ es ] (detention camp) created.
- 30 March: Italian forces take city from the Republicans.^[12]
1941 – Diario Información [ es ] newspaper begins publication.^[13]
1947 – Banco de España building (Alicante) [ es ] constructed.
1950 – Population: 104,222.^[6]
1956 – Hospital General Universitario de Alicante [ es ] built.
1959 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante active.^[14]
1962 – Estudiotel Alicante high-rise built.
1963 – El Barco high-rise built in Albufereta [ es ] barrio.
1967 – El Altet Airport opens.
1968 – Alicante railway station rebuilt.
1971 – Gran Sol hi-rise built on the Rambla de Méndez Núñez [ es ].
1974
- Archivo Histórico Provincial de Alicante [ es ] (archives) established.^[15]
- Estadio José Rico Pérez (stadium) opens.
1977 – Alicante Museum of Contemporary Art opens.
1979
- University of Alicante established.
- Estadio Alicante CF [ es ] (stadium) opens.
1981 – Population: 251,387.^[6]
1982 – Part of 1982 FIFA World Cup football contest held in Alicante.
1983 – Biblioteca Pública Azorín de Alicante (library) active.^[8]
1985 – Festival de Música Contemporánea de Alicante [ es ] begins.
1993 – Muestra de Teatro Español de Autores Contemporáneos [ es ] (theatre festival) begins.
1999 – Alicante Tram begins operating.

21st century

2001
- European Union Intellectual Property Office headquartered in Alicante.
- Gravina Museum of Fine Arts established.
2004 – Festival de Cine de Alicante [ es ] begins.
2005 – Film studio Ciudad de la Luz begins operating.
2009 – Alicante Innovation and Territory regional development plan published.
2011
- Auditorio de la Diputación de Alicante [ es ] (concert hall) built.
- Population: 329,325.^[6]
2014 – Population: 332,067 city; 757,085 metro [ es ].
2015 – Gabriel Echávarri [ es ] becomes mayor.

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References

1 2 3 4 5 Britannica 1910.
1 2 3 4 "La Ciudad de Alicante". Ayuntamiento de Alicante (in Spanish). 2015-02-06. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
↑ Madoz 1845.
↑ Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. (2013) [2005], "Merchant Guilds", in Cynthia Clark Northrup (ed.), Encyclopedia of World Trade, Routledge, ISBN 9780765682680
↑ Braulio Antón Ramírez, ed. (1865). "Sociedades economicas del reino". Diccionario de bibliografía agronómica (in Spanish). Madrid: Manuel Rivadeneyra. pp. 390–409. hdl:2027/ucm.5309027638 – via HathiTrust.
1 2 3 4 5 "Alterations to the municipalities in the Population Censuses since 1842: Alicante/Alacant". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain) . Retrieved 25 October 2016.
1 2 Moreno Sáez 1990.
1 2 "Quiénes somos" (in Spanish). Biblioteca Pública Azorín de Alicante. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
↑ Guia: Jardines Históricos de la Provincia de Alicante (in Spanish), Diputación de Alicante, 2015
↑ "Spain". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1910. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368408 – via HathiTrust.
↑ "(Localidad: Alicante)". Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica [ es ] (in Spanish). Madrid: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte . Retrieved 25 October 2016.
1 2 Francisco J. Romero Salvadó (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5784-1.
↑ "Spain". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Spain". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo . Retrieved 25 October 2016.
↑ "Archivo Histórico Provincial de Alicante" (in Spanish). Madrid: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. Retrieved 25 October 2016.

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

Bibliography

in English

Josiah Conder (1830), "Alicant", The Modern Traveller, London: J.Duncan
John Ramsay McCulloch (1880), "Alicante", in Hugh G. Reid (ed.), A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Richard Ford (1890), "Alicante", Handbook for Travellers in Spain, vol. 2 (7th ed.), London: J. Murray, p. 459
Richard Stephen Charnock (1894), "Alicante", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Spain and Portugal, W.J. Adams & Sons, OCLC 36885426
"Alicante (capital)" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 1 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 661.
"Alicante", Spain and Portugal (4th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913, hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t5q81nw29 – via HathiTrust

in Spanish

Vicente Bendicho (1640), Crónica de la muy ilustre noble y leal ciudad de Alicante (in Spanish)
Pascual Madoz, ed. (1845). "Alicante". Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar (in Spanish). Madrid.
Historia general de la ciudad y castillo de Alicante (in Spanish). 1854.
Jose Alfonso Roca de Togores (1883). Guia de Alicante: manual del alicantino y del forastero (in Spanish). Sociedad Economica de Amigos del Pais – via Biblioteca Valenciana Digital [ es ].
Ensayo biografico bibliografico de escritores de Alicante y de su provincia (in Spanish). 1890.
Guía práctica de Alicante y su provincia (in Spanish). A. Marzo. 1908.
Francisco Moreno Sáez, ed. (1990), Historia de la Ciudad de Alicante (in Spanish), Ayuntamiento de Alicante (4 parts)

External links

"Archivo Municipal de Alicante" (in Spanish). Ayuntamiento de Alicante. (city archives)
Pedro Mas (ed.). "Alicante 1850" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 26 November 2013.
Items related to Alicante, various dates (via Europeana)
Items related to Alicante, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)

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[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-1] 1 2 3 4 5 Britannica 1910.

[La_Ciudad_de_Alicante-2] 1 2 3 4 "La Ciudad de Alicante". Ayuntamiento de Alicante (in Spanish). 2015-02-06. Retrieved 2018-02-28.

[FOOTNOTEMadoz1845-3] Madoz 1845.

[4] Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. (2013) [2005], "Merchant Guilds", in Cynthia Clark Northrup (ed.), Encyclopedia of World Trade, Routledge, ISBN 9780765682680

[Ramirez1865-5] Braulio Antón Ramírez, ed. (1865). "Sociedades economicas del reino". Diccionario de bibliografía agronómica (in Spanish). Madrid: Manuel Rivadeneyra. pp. 390–409. hdl:2027/ucm.5309027638 – via HathiTrust.

[INE-6] 1 2 3 4 5 "Alterations to the municipalities in the Population Censuses since 1842: Alicante/Alacant". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain) . Retrieved 25 October 2016.

[FOOTNOTEMoreno_Sáez1990-7] 1 2 Moreno Sáez 1990.

[BPE-8] 1 2 "Quiénes somos" (in Spanish). Biblioteca Pública Azorín de Alicante. Retrieved 25 October 2016.

[9] Guia: Jardines Históricos de la Provincia de Alicante (in Spanish), Diputación de Alicante, 2015

[10] "Spain". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1910. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368408 – via HathiTrust.

[BVPH-11] "(Localidad: Alicante)". Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica [ es ] (in Spanish). Madrid: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte . Retrieved 25 October 2016.

[Romero2013-12] 1 2 Francisco J. Romero Salvadó (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5784-1.

[europa2003-13] "Spain". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.

[katolsk-14] "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Spain". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo . Retrieved 25 October 2016.

[15] "Archivo Histórico Provincial de Alicante" (in Spanish). Madrid: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. Retrieved 25 October 2016.

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