Timeline of Almería

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

Prior to 20th century

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Early history Pre-Roman peoples Carthaginian Spain (575–206 BCE)
Roman Hispania Roman Conquest (206–27 BCE) Hispania (218 BCE–472 CE) Romanization Diocese of Hispania
Early Middle Ages Kingdom of the Suebi (409–585) Kingdom of the Visigoths (418–721) Byzantine Spania (552–624)
Middle Ages Muslim conquest (711–716) Al-Andalus (711–1492) Reconquista (711–1492) Christian kingdoms (718–1479)
Early modern period Catholic Monarchs (1479–1516) Granada War (1482–1492) Colonisation of the Americas (1492–1898) Habsburgs (1516–1700) Golden Age (1556–1659) Iberian Union (1580–1640) Bourbons (1700–1808) War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) Nueva Planta Decrees (1707–1716)
Peninsular War Abdications of Bayonne (1808) Napoleonic Spain (1808–1813) Cortes of Cádiz (1810–1814) Constitution of Cádiz (1812) Treaty of Valençay (1813)
Absolutist restoration Sexenio Absolutista (1814–1820) Trienio Liberal (1820–1823) Ominous Decade (1823–1833)
Reign of Isabella II Regency of María Cristina (1833–1840) First Carlist War (1833–1840) Regency of Espartero (1840–1843) Década moderada (1844–1854) Second Carlist War (1846–1849) Bienio progresista (1854–1856) Glorious Revolution (1868)
Sexenio Democrático Provisional Government (1868–1871) Reign of Amadeo I (1870–1873) Third Carlist War (1872–1876) First Republic (1873–1874)
Restoration Spain Reign of Alfonso XII (1874–1885) Regency of María Cristina (1885–1902) Reign of Alfonso XIII (1886–1931) Spanish–American War (1898) Spain during World War I (1914–1918) Rif War (–1927) Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923–1930) Dictablanda of Dámaso Berenguer (1930–1931)
Second Republic Provisional Government (1931) First Biennium (1931–1933) Second Biennium (1933–1936) Revolution and Asturian miners' strike (1934) 1936 general election (1936) 1936 coup d'état (1936) Civil War (1936–1939) Nationalist victory (1939)
Francoist Spain Spanish Maquis (1939–1965) Republican exile (1939–1977) Spain during World War II (1939–1945) Blue Division (1941–1944) Basque conflict (1959–2011)
Contemporary history Transition to democracy (1975–1978) Current constitution (1978) 1981 coup d'état attempt Madrid train bombings (2004) 2008–2014 financial crisis 2017 Barcelona attacks Catalan declaration of independence (2017) Coronavirus pandemic (2020–present)
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955 CE – Town of Al-Mariyya established.^[1]
1012 – Taifa of Almería established.
1147 – Al-Mariyya taken by forces of Alfonso VII of León.^[2]
1157 – Almohads in power.^[1]
1238 – City becomes part of the kingdom of Granada.^[1]
1309 – City besieged by forces of James II of Aragon.^[1]^(es)
1489 – Castilians in power.^[1]
1492
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Almería established.^[3]
- Santo Domingo convent founded.^[4]
1524 – Almería Cathedral construction begins.^[2]
1591 – August: Battle of the Gulf of Almería (1591) fought offshore.
1674 – Iglesia de San Juan Evangelista (Almería) [es] (church) built.^{[citation needed]}
1829 – Teatro Principal (theatre) opens.^[5]
1834 – Almeria Sociedad Económica de los Amigos del País established.^[6]
1840 – Casino de Almería [es] founded.^[7]
1842 – Population: 17,800.^[8]
1845 – Biblioteca del Instituto Provincial de Segunda Enseñanza de Almería (library) established.^[9]
1860 – Crónica Meridional newspaper begins publication.^[10]^[11]
1873 – 30 July: Battle of Almería (1873) [es].
1881 – Teatro Apolo (Almería) [es] (theatre) built.^[12]
1885 – Ingenio de Montserrat [es] (sugar mill) begins operating.
1887 – Escuela de Artes y Oficios [es] (art school) founded.^[13]
1888 – Plaza de toros de Almería (bullring) opens.
1892 – Mercado Central de Almería [es] (market) built.
1893 – Estación de Almería [es] (train station) built.
1900 – Population: 47,326.^[14]

20th century

1908 – La Independencia newspaper begins publication.^[10]
1909 – Casa de las Mariposas (Almería) [es] built on the Puerta de Purchena [es].
1916 – Diario de Almería newspaper begins publication.^[11]
1921 – Círculo Mercantil e Industrial (Almería) [es] built.
1932 – Archivo Histórico Provincial de Almería (archives) established.^[15]
1933 – Museum of Almería founded.
1937 – 31 May: Bombardment of Almería by German forces.
1939 – La Voz de Almería newspaper begins publication.
1947
- Biblioteca Francisco Villaespesa (library) active.^[9]
- Iglesia de San Antonio de Padua (Almería) [es] (church) built in the Ciudad Jardín (Almería) [es] barrio.
1968 – Almería Airport begins operating.
1970 – Population: 114,510.^[8]
1971 – AD Almería (football club) formed.
1976 – Estadio Municipal Juan Rojas (stadium) opens.
1980 – Almerían Studies Institute [es] founded.^[16]
1989 – UD Almería (football club) formed.
1992 – Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía established.
1993 – University of Almería established.
1997 – Coro Ciudad de Almería [es] (musical group) formed.

21st century

2001
- Orquesta Ciudad de Almería [es] (orchestra) formed.
- Population: 166,328.^[8]
2003
- Ibn Tufayl Foundation for Arabic Studies established.
- Luis Rogelio Rodríguez-Comendador [es] becomes mayor.
2004 – Estadio de los Juegos Mediterráneos (stadium) opens.
2005 – 2005 Mediterranean Games held in Almeria.
2007 – Consorcio de Transporte Metropolitano del Área de Almería [es] (transit entity) created.
2011 – Population: 189,680.^[8]
2014 – Population: 193,351 city; 257,207 metro [es].
2015 – Ramón Fernández-Pacheco becomes mayor.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Bosch Vilá 1989.
^ ^a ^b Britannica 1910.
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Spain". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
^ "(Municipio: Almería)". Bases de datos del patrimonio cultural: Patrimonio inmueble de Andalucía (in Spanish). Seville: Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
^ Martínez Romero 2001.
^ 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.
^ Gómez Díaz 2001.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Alterations to the municipalities in the Population Censuses since 1842: Almería". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain). Retrieved 28 October 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Historia de la Biblioteca". Biblioteca Provincial de Almeria (in Spanish). Junta de Andalucía. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
^ ^a ^b "(Localidad: Almería)". Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica [es] (in Spanish). Madrid: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
^ ^a ^b Ramón Reig, ed. (2011). La comunicación en Andalucía: historia, estructura y nuevas tecnologías (in Spanish). Seville: Centro de Estudios Andaluces. ISBN 978-84-939078-0-8.
^ "El Teatro Apolo: De sus orígenes a la restauración". Diario de Almería (in Spanish). 18 October 2009.
^ "La Escuela: Historia" (in Spanish). scuela de Arte de Almería. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
^ "Spain". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1910. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368408 – via HathiTrust.
^ "Archivo Histórico Provincial de Almería". Censo-Guía de Archivos (in Spanish). Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
^ "El IEA celebra su 33 aniversario", Diario de Almería (in Spanish), 24 July 2013

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

Richard Ford (1890), "Almeria", Handbook for Travellers in Spain (7th ed.), London: J. Murray, p. 374
Richard Stephen Charnock (1894), "Almeria", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Spain and Portugal, W.J. Adams & Sons, OCLC 36885426
"Almería (capital)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 714.
"Almeria", Spain and Portugal (4th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913, hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t5q81nw29 – via HathiTrust
Jacinto Bosch Vilá (1989). "Al-Mariyya". Encyclopedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill. pp. 575–577. ISBN 9004083693.

in Spanish

Leopoldo Torres Balbás (1957), "Almería islamica", Al-Andalus [es] (in Spanish), vol. 22, pp. 217–263 – via Technical University of Madrid, Archivo Digital UPM
José Ángel Tapia Garrido (1970). Almeria, piedra a piedra (in Spanish).
Historia general de Almeria y su provincia (in Spanish), 1976
José Ángel Tapia Garrido (1986), Almería musulmana [Muslim Almería] (in Spanish)
Donato Gómez Díaz; José Miguel Martínez López (2001). El deporte en Almería, 1880-1939: Una historia sobre el ocio y la formación de la identidad provincial [Sports in Almería, 1880-1939: A history of recreation and provincial identity formation] (in Spanish). Universidad de Almería. ISBN 978-84-8240-341-0.
Josefa Martínez Romero (2001). Instituciones culturales en el siglo XIX almeriense (in Spanish). Universidad de Almería. ISBN 978-84-8240-333-5.
Ignacio Ortega Campos (2005), Crónica social del cine en Almería (1896-1936) (in Spanish), ISBN 9788495979452