Timeline of Valencia

Last updated June 05, 2022

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.^[1]
413 - Taken by the Visigoths.^[2]
714 - Taken by Moors.^[2]
1010 CE - City becomes capital of the Taifa of Valencia.
1021 - Independent Moorish kingdom of Valencia was established^[2]
1064 CE - Al-Mamun of Toledo in power.^[3]
1094 - Castilian Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar in power.^[4]
1109 - Almoravid Masdali in power.^[4]
1238 - City becomes capital of the Aragonese Kingdom of Valencia.^[5]
1261 - Furs of Valencia (law) promulgated.
1262 - Valencia Cathedral construction begins.^[6]^[2]
1283 - Consulate of the Sea established.^[7]
1349 - Torres de Serranos (gate) built.^[6]
1380 - Public clock installed (approximate date).^[8]
1444 - Torres de Cuarto ^es (gate) built.^[6]
1459 - Valencia Cathedral lengthened in its original Gothic style.^[2]
1473 - Printing press in use.^[9]
1474 - "Poetical contest" held.^[10]
1483 - Llotja de la Seda construction begins.^[1]
1499 - University of Valencia founded.^[2]
1568 - Juan de Ribera becomes Archbishop of Valencia.^[4]
1707 - Bourbons in power.^[5]
1776 - Real Sociedad Económica Valenciana de Amigos del País [ es ] established.^[11]
1812 - 9 January: City taken by French forces ^es and the library robbed of its 60,000 volumes.^[5]^[2]
1840 - Domingo Mascarós ^es becomes mayor.
1858 - Plaza de Toros de Valencia opens.
1887 - Population: 170,763.^[5]
1897 - Population: 204,768.^[5]

20th century

1913 - Museu de Belles Arts de València established.
1915 - Teatro Olympia ^es opens.^[12]
1917 - Estació del Nord (railway station) opens.
1930 - Population: 320,195.^[13]
1933
- December: "Anarchist uprising ^es."^[14]
- Valencia Airport built.
1937 - The city becomes the capital of the Republican controlled Spain.
1940 - Population: 450,756.^[13]
1946 - Cine Majestic (cinema) opens.^[12]
1957 - October: 1957 Valencia flood.
1958 - Adolfo Rincón de Arellano Garcia becomes mayor.
1970 - Population: 653,690.^[13]
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.^[15]
1995
- Metrovalencia in operation.
- Eduardo Zaplana becomes president of the regional Generalitat Valenciana government.^[15]

21st century

2006 - 3 July: Valencia Metro derailment (43 dead)
2010 - Valenbisi bikeshare begins operating.^[16]
2013 - Population: 792,303.
2015 - Valencia City Council election, 2015 held; Joan Ribó elected mayor.

References

1 2 Ring 1996.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Britannica 1910.
↑ Henry Smith Williams, ed. (1908). "History in Outline". Parthians, Sassanids, and Arabs. Historians History of the World. Hooper & Jackson.
1 2 3 Ruiz Amado 1912.
1 2 3 4 5 Haydn 1910.
1 2 3 John Tavenor Perry (1893). Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture. J. Murray.
↑ Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. (2013) [2005], "Merchant Guilds", in Cynthia Clark Northrup (ed.), Encyclopedia of World Trade, Routledge, ISBN 9780765682680
↑ Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
↑ F. J. Norton (1966). Printing in Spain 1501-1520. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-13118-6.
↑ George Ticknor (1888), History of Spanish Literature, vol. 1 (6th ed.), Boston: Houghton, Mifflin (see also index entry for Valencia)
↑ 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 "Movie Theaters in Valencia". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
1 2 3 "Alterations to the municipalities in the Population Censuses since 1842: Valencia". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain) . Retrieved 30 November 2014.
↑ Francisco J. Romero Salvadó (2013). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5784-1.
1 2 "Spain's municipal and regional elections: a dry run for next year", The Economist, 22 May 2003
↑ 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

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. hdl:2027/hvd.ah5cur.
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 (city)" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 27 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 845–846.
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. Vol. 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 734+. ISBN 9781134259588. 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

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[FOOTNOTERing1996-1] 1 2 Ring 1996.

[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-2] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Britannica 1910.

[Williams1908-3] Henry Smith Williams, ed. (1908). "History in Outline". Parthians, Sassanids, and Arabs. Historians History of the World. Hooper & Jackson.

[FOOTNOTERuiz_Amado1912-4] 1 2 3 Ruiz Amado 1912.

[FOOTNOTEHaydn1910-5] 1 2 3 4 5 Haydn 1910.

[Perry1893-6] 1 2 3 John Tavenor Perry (1893). Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture. J. Murray.

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

[Rossum1996-8] Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.

[Norton2010-9] F. J. Norton (1966). Printing in Spain 1501-1520. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-13118-6.

[10] George Ticknor (1888), History of Spanish Literature, vol. 1 (6th ed.), Boston: Houghton, Mifflin (see also index entry for Valencia)

[Ramirez1865-11] 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.

[cinema-12] 1 2 "Movie Theaters in Valencia". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 November 2014.

[ine-13] 1 2 3 "Alterations to the municipalities in the Population Censuses since 1842: Valencia". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain) . Retrieved 30 November 2014.

[Salvadó2013-14] Francisco J. Romero Salvadó (2013). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5784-1.

[economist2003-15] 1 2 "Spain's municipal and regional elections: a dry run for next year", The Economist, 22 May 2003

[16] Javier Molina-García; et al. (2013). "Bicycling to university: evaluation of a bicycle-sharing program in Spain". Health Promotion International. ISSN 1460-2245.

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