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  [ es ] (MLKʾ) founded by Phoenicians from Tyre.
• 205 BCE – Roman Republic in power in Malaca (Hispania)  [ es ]. ^[1]
• 81-84 CE – 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

• 1486 – 4 August: Roman Catholic Diocese of Málaga established.
• 1487 – Siege of Málaga (1487); 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] [9]}
• 1540 – Buenavista Palace built.
• 1656 – 21 July: Raid on Málaga by English forces.
• 1680 – 1680 Malaga earthquake  [ es ]. ^[10]
• 1719 – Málaga Cathedral construction completed. ^[12]
• 1741 – Yellow fever epidemic. ^[13]
• 1757 – Ermita de Zamarrilla  [ es ] (church) built. ^[14]
• 1782 – Málaga Cathedral construction completed. ^[9]
• 1785 – Consulado (merchant guild) established. ^[15]
• 1790 – Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Málaga  [ es ] active. ^[16]

Contemporary Period

19th century

Málaga in the 19th century

See also: History of Málaga § 19th century

• 1804 – Epidemic.
• 1810 – City "sacked by the French.(General Sebastiani" ^[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)  [ es ] 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.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1864 – February: Arrest of a Polish ship with weapons and ammunition, organized by Polish émigré activists to support the ongoing Polish January Uprising in partitioned Poland (see also Poland–Spain relations ). ^[20]
• 1870 – Teatro Cervantes de Malaga  [ es ] (theatre) opens. ^[21]
• 1876 – Plaza de toros de La Malagueta (bullring) built.
• 1877 – Population: 115,882. ^[19]
• 1879 – Mercado de Atarazanas  [ es ] (market) built.
• 1881 – Pablo Picasso born in Malaga. ^[22]
• 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  [ es ] (monument) erected.
• 1900 – Population: city 130,109; province 511,989. ^[9]

20th century

• 1904
  • Málaga Club de Fútbol ("The Anchovies") formed.
  • Villa Suecia  [ es ] built in El Limonar  [ es ] area.

Flood in 1907

• 1907 – September: Flood. ^[9]
• 1908 – Malaga-Vélez-Málaga railway begins operating. ^[9]
• 1919 – Málaga Airport opens.
• 1913 – Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes (museum) founded. ^[18]
• 1918 – Antigua casa de socorro de La Trinidad  [ es ] built.
• 1925 – Alameda Principal opens to traffic.
• 1937
  • February: Nationalists capture Malaga. ^[23]
  • Boinas Rojas newspaper begins publication. ^[24]
• 1940
  • La Tarde newspaper begins publication. ^[24]
  • Population: 238,085. ^[19]
• 1941 – La Rosaleda Stadium opens.
• 1945 – Cine Albeniz (cinema) opens. ^[25]
• 1947 – Museo Arqueológico Provincial (museum) founded.
• 1949 – Carranque (Málaga)  [ es ] housing construction begins.^{[ citation needed ]}

Port of Málaga, ca. 1961

• 1966 – Cine Astoria (cinema) opens. ^[25]
• 1970 – Population: 374,452. ^[19]
• 1972 – University of Málaga established.
• 1973 – Museo de Málaga established. ^[26]
• 1976
  • Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares (Málaga)  [ es ] (museum) opens.
  • Málaga Centro-Alameda railway station opens.
• 1979 – Pedro Aparicio Sánchez becomes mayor.
• 1981 – Population: 503,251. ^[19]
• 1982 – 13 September: Spantax airplane crash. ^[27]
• 1988
  • Fundación Picasso established.
  • Basílica de la Esperanza (Málaga)  [ es ] (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. ^[28]
  • Francisco de la Torre (politician) becomes mayor.

21st century

Málaga in 2017

See also: History of Málaga § 21st century

• 2003
  • Málaga Metropolitan Transport Consortium established.
  • Museo Picasso Málaga opens.
• 2004 – Málaga Hoy  [ es ] magazine begins publication.
• 2006 – 2006 European Cup (athletics) held.
• 2009 – Honorary Consulate of Poland opened. ^[29]
• 2010
  • 29 September: 2010 Spain general strike  [ es ]. ^[30]
  • Population: 568,507.
• 2011 – Carmen Thyssen Museum opens.

See also

• History of Málaga
• List of mayors of Malaga  [ es ]
• 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

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

Bibliography

in English

Published in the 18th-19th centuries

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• 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. hdl:2027/hvd.ah5cur.
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Published in the 20th century

• "Malaga". Spain and Portugal (3rd ed.). Leipsic: Karl Baedeker. 1908. OCLC   1581249.
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• Blanche M. Kelly (1910). "Malaga". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
• Évariste Lévi-Provençal (1934). "Malaga". Encyclopedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill. pp. 187–188. ISBN   9004097961.
• 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. Vol. 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. Bibcode:2008SeiRL..79..707G. 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), vol. 11, Madrid, 1848, pp. 66+, hdl:2027/mdp.39015039374171 (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