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852/856 Muhammad I, emir of Córdoba, he founds Madrid. |
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932 Muhammad I, emir de Córdoba, funda Madrid. |
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995 The villa has in this moment with 7 schools of astronomy, that they attract diverse personalities of that epoch. Historical figures of relevancy are Abul- Qasim Maslama, astronomer and mathematician and Abu Yusuf, scientific that has reputation in the whole Islam. |
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11th CENTURY |
| 1047 The King of Castile Fernando I enters Madrid and conquers the Villa. On an important square not having been considered, it is returned to the king of Toledo. |
| 1085 Alfonso VI conquers Toledo and with it Madrid enters of definitive form Christian zone. |
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12th CENTURY |
| 1109 Madrid is devastated and completely destroyed by the king Almorávide Tesufín. |
| 1132 The king Alfonso VII conquers Villarrubia's castle of the Eyes. With this there falls down the last Moslem bastion in which today the autonomous community of Madrid is known. |
| 1188 Madrid for the first time in a few Spanish Parliament celebrated in Carrión. |
| 1190 To remain definite the bordering borders of the Councils of Madrid and Segovia. |
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13th CENTURY |
| 1212 On April 1 San Isidro's body is discovered and the militias of Madrid take part in the battle of the Navas de Tolosa. |
| 1217 San Francisco de Asís founds in Madrid the monastery of San Francisco. |
| 1218 Guzmán's Santo Domingo founds the monastery of Santo Domingo el Real. |
| 1219 Rodrigo Rodríguez is converted the first "mayor" of the Villa. |
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14th CENTURY |
| 1309 Spanish Parliament is celebrated in Madrid by the first time. |
| 1348 The regiment of Madrid remains implanted in Madrid on order of the king Alfonso XI. |
| 1391 A great killing of Jews is produced in Madrid. |
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15th CENTURY |
| 1435 Spanish Parliament is celebrated in Madrid and it is declared with representation in Spanish Parliament permanently. |
| 1436 The king Juan II donates the dominion of the Royal of Manzanares to the House of Mendoza. |
| 1473 It is founded on Vallecas the convent of the Piety Bernarda. |
| 1474 Enrique IV dies. The city of Madrid remains divided between supporters of Juana la Beltraneja and Isabel the Catholic one. After a fence on the part of Isabel's troops Catholic Madrid stays under the power of Isabel. |
| 1476 In spite of Madrid goes on momentarily to Isabel's the Catholic side, soon the city will give the back to return with Juana, to whom her there belongs most of the areas of Madrid. After the battle of Toro in Zamora the throne passes to be definitively of Isabel. |
| 1479 Pedro Zapata founds the monastery of Gratings. |
| 1489 There is authorized the construction of a municipal slaughter house. |
| 1492 Expulsion of the resident Jews in the Villa and beginning of the stone pavement of the streets of Madrid. |
| 1494 The Católics Kings dictate procedure on the urban development of Madrid. |
| 1495 Is initiated the construction of the municipal slaughter house. |
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16th CENTURY |
| 1516 On January 30 king of Spain is proclaimed the Prince Carlos, grandson of the Católics Kings. |
| 1523 The religious order of the Dominicans they establish themselves in the hermitage of the Virgin of Atocha. |
| 1525 The French king, Francisco I, is captured and moved to Madrid after Pavia's battle. |
| 1526 Is signed " Concord of Madrid ", returning the freedom to Francisco I of France. As guarantee and to force the French king to expire with the agreed has to leave 2 of his daughters in Madrid. |
| 1528 The emperor Carlos I convoke Spanish Parliament in Madrid. |
| 1534 The Emperor Carlos I granted the wreath of his shield of weapon to the city of Madrid. |
| 1557 The princess Juana, sister of the future king Felipe II, founds the convent of Franciscan known like the Descalzas Reales. |
| 1561 In May, the king Felipe II, for still unknown reasons, moves with all his Court from Toledo and establishes itself in Madrid, which is converted into capital of the Kingdom. In June, the Council of Castile does business in Madrid. |
| 1563 In February and on order of the king Felipe II is placed the first stone of the Monastery of El Escorial. |
| 1569 Comes to Madrid the mother Teresa de Jesús. |
| 1598 The king Felipe II dies and begins Felipe's III reign. |
| 1599 Diego de Velázquez's birth, painter of Court. The construction of the first Door of Alcala is initiated, which Felipe III had entrusted to celebrate dona Margarita's reception of Austria, his wife. |
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17th CENTURY |
| 1601 Movement of the court to Valladolid. |
| 1605 Is edited in Madrid the first part of Quijote of Cervantes. |
| 1606 On March 4 Madrid recovers the capital of Spain. |
| 1616 Is initiated the construction of the Plaza Mayor. One proceeds to the placement of Diana's fountain in the Door of the Sol. |
| 1619 The first bullfight in the almost finished Plaza Mayor. |
| 1621 The king Felipe III dies and Felipe's IV reign is initiated. |
| 1632 The Count - Duke of Olivares presents keys of the Buen Retiro to the king Felipe IV. |
| 1660 Dies the painter of Court Diego de Velázquez. |
| 1665 The king Felipe IV dies and Carlos's II reign is initiated. |
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18th CENTURY |
| 1700 The king Felipe IV dies and Carlos's II reign is initiated. |
| 1701 Comes to Madrid Philip V, the first king of the dynasty of the Borbones. |
| 1702 Suceción's war is initiated when Carlos II dies, last king of the Austrias, without descent. |
| 1706 To the month of the occupation the king Felipe V is expelled by the loyal troops. |
| 1710 At the end of September Madrid returns to be occupied during month and a half by Carlos. The people from Madrid receive after this phase warmly the king. |
| 1717 Uceda's palace is converted into Palace of Councils. |
| 1719 Is initiated the reconstruction of the Bridge of Toledo. |
| 1746 On July 9, the king Felipe V dies in the Palace of the El Buen Retiro. His son Fernando VI is proclaimed a king. |
| 1759 The king Fernando VI dies. On September 11 Carlos III, son of Felipe V and of Isabel de Farnesio, was proclaimed a king of Spain. |
| 1763 On December 10, is celebrated the first draw of the Royal Lottery of Madrid and its kingdoms. |
| 1766 Is initiated the construction of the House of Post office (current headquarters of the Community of Madrid). |
| 1767 On March 31, at midnight, Carlos III orders the Jesuits to leave the country.The Park of the El Buen Retiro is opened the public. |
| 1769 Is initiated the construction of the Royal Household of the Customs (current headquarters of the Treasury Department).Is initiated the construction of the current Door of Alcala, which it cocludes in 1779. |
| 1777 Is initiated the construction of Benavente's palace (current Department of Defense). |
| 1781 Creation of the Royal Botanical Garden. |
| 1785 The construction of the Palace is initiated - Prado Museum. |
| 1788 On December 14 dies in the Villa the king Carlos III, the best mayor of Madrid and begins Carlos's IV reign. |
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| 1808 After Carlos's IV resignation, it begins Fernando's VII reign. On May 2, the people of Madrid gets up against the French troops. It begins José's I Bonaparte reign. El 2 de Mayo, el pueblo de Madrid se levanta contra las tropas francesas. Comienza el reinado de José I Bonaparte. |
| 1812 Jose I leaves the Court after Majadahonda's battle. |
| 1813 Expulsion of the Frenchmen. |
| 1814 On May 13 Fernando VII enters Madrid. |
| 1815 The reconstruction of the Retiro is begun. |
| 1820 Pedro Sainz de Baranda is converted into the first constitutional mayor of Madrid. The Liberal Triennium is initiated. |
| 1822 The raising of the royal guard is crushed supporting the absolutism on July 7. |
| 1833 On September 29 Fernando VII dies in the Royal Palace. Isabel II is proclaimed a queen. Nevertheless of the royal matters takes charge his mother, María Cristina de Borbón. |
| 1836 Reestablishment of the Constitution of 1812. |
| 1839 On February 17 the Savings bank is inaugurated in the places of El Monte de Piedad of the square of Las Descalzas. |
| 1843 Pronouncement of Prim, Serrano, Milans del Bosch, Narváez y Concha putting end to Esparto regency. On November 10, Isabel swears the Constitution, after being declared to be of age with thirteen years. |
| 1848 On March 27 a progressive raising is initiated in Madrid. |
| 1850 On November 19 the queen Isabel II inaugurates the Royal Theatre. |
| 1851 On February 9 the queen Isabell II inaugurates the railway line Madrid-Aranjuez. On August 11 it begins the works of Isabell II's channel. |
| 1858 On June 24 it begins to spout the water that, from the river Lozoya, comes to Madrid for Isabel's II channel. |
| 1865 On April 10 it takes place a clash of students and police, which will give name to the night of San Daniel. |
| 1866 On April 21 the queen Isabel II places the first stone of the National Library. On June 22, it takes place a revolt of the sergeants of San Gil's barrack. On November 19, it begins to work the clock installed in the building of the old Departement of the Interior in the Door of the Sol square, constructed by the watchmaker Losada. |
| 1868 In September, the "Glorious" revolution is initiated. The queen Isabel II flees to France. |
| 1870 It begins the construction of the building of the Savings bank and Monte de Piedad of Madrid in the lot of the convent of St Martin. On December 28, the general Prim is murdered in the street of the Turk. |
| 1871 On January 2 the king Amadeo I enters Madrid. On May 31 lines of streetcars are inaugurated first, thrown by horses, which it would join the neighborhood of Salamanca with those of Pozas and Argüelles,passing for the Door of the Sol square. |
| 1873 On February 11 it takes place the abdication of the king Amadeo I and the proclamation, for the Spanish Parliament, of the Spanish Republic. On June 8, is proclaimed the 1ª Republic in Madrid. |
| 1875 On January 14, Alfonso XII enters Madrid. |
| 1878 On October 25 and in the Mayor street, the king Alfonso XII suffers an attempt without the king suffers some damage. |
| 1879 On May 2 it is constituted the Working Spanish Socialist party (PSOE((SPANISH SOCIALIST PARTY)), founded by Paul Iglesias. |
| 1882 On February 3, it is initiated the typographers' first general strike of Madrid. |
| 1883 On April 4, it begins in Madrid the construction of the Cathedral of the Almudena. On December 23, the king Alfonso XII presides at the inauguration of new Jail Móstoles's model. |
| 1884 It begins the construction of the Bank of Spain, which finishes in 1891. |
| 1888 On May 15 the is inaugurated the Gijon Coffe in Recoletos walk. |
| 1890 On May 4, is celebrated the workers' first demonstration convoked on the occasion of the First of May. |
| 1896 On May 13, the first exhibition of cinematograph is celebrated in a lounge of the Russia Hotel, in Carrera de San Jerónimo. |
| 1898 On October 3,is celebrated the inauguration of the first stretch electrified of streetcars: Sol-Serrano and Recoletos-Hipódromo. |
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| 1905 On June 1 it appears the first number of the ABC newspaper. |
| 1906 On May 31, the kings Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenia go out unharmed of an attempt perpetrated against them in the Mayor street. |
| 1907 It begins to register the cars that circulate from the year 1898 in Madrid. |
| 1912 On November 12 the president of the cabinet José Canalejas, is murdered in the Door of the Sol by the anarchist Manuel Pardiñas. |
| 1917 On August 19 a general revolutionary strike is initiated in the whole Spain. |
| 1919 On March 14 the Palace of Communications is inaugurated, in Cibeles. On October 17, the king Alfonso XIII inaugurates the first stretch of the subway, Puerta del Sol-Cuatro Caminos. |
| 1921 On March 8: murder of the president of the cabinet Eduardo Dato in the square of the Independence. |
| 1923 On March 2 Einstein visits Madrid with reception for the kings of Spain. |
| 1927 On May 17 it publishes the Royal Decree by which the University City is created. |
| 1929 Is initiated the construction of the Barajas airport. |
| 1930 On December 15 is initiated the summons of general strike and of military revolt against the Monarchy. |
| 1931 On April 12 it takes place an overwhelming victory of the candidacy republican - Socialist, in all the districts of Madrid. On April 14 the II Republic is proclaimed in the Door of the Sol. On April 15 the first republican - Socialist town hall is constituted,presided by Pedro Rico. |
| 1934 On October 1 the bullring of Las Ventas is inaugurated. On October 4 it begins the general revolutionary strike summoned by the PSOE and the UGT, to prevent the entry of the CEDA in the government, producing the dismissal of the Town hall chosen in 1931. |
| 1936 On February 15 general elections are celebrated. Triumph in Madrid Manuel Azaña of the Popular Front. On July 12 is murdered the lieutenant of the force of Assault Jose Castillo, followed for a few hours for José Calvo Sotelo's assassination, deputy. On July 17, traverse the rumors of the revolt against the Republic and begin the demonstrations, to demand the distribution of weapon. On July 20 the military elevation fails in Madrid, when the republican troops take the Barrack of the Mountain. On August 27 begin the bombardments of the rebellious troops on Madrid. On October 8 there is created the first Meeting of Defense of Madrid On November 6 the government decides to leave Madrid and to establish, in Valencia, the capital of the Republic. On November 7 it begins " battle of Madrid ". |
| 1938 Madrid continues defending itself from the assault of the rebellious troops. |
| 1939 On March 5 a coup d'Etat of the colonel Casado is produced, chief of the army of the Center, against the government presided by Juan Negrín. On the 28th, the rebellious troops of the general Francisco Franco, they enter Madrid. |
| 1952 On May 16 it eliminates the primer of racionamiento. |
| 1972 On June 23 it was inaugurated in the Casa de Campo the Zoo of Madrid. |
| 1973 On December 20 and in the Claudio Coello street, is murdered by ETA the prime minister, Luis Carrero Blanco. |
| 1974 On November 11 the railcar M-30 was inaugurated. |
| 1975 On November 20 the general Francisco Franco dies. On November 22 the king Juan Carlos I is proclaimed a king of Spain |
| 1976 On December 15 the people from Madrid, with 92,19 per cent of affirmative votes, approve in referendum the Law for the Political Reform. |
| 1977 On November 9 the Pope Paul VI declares the Virgin of the Almudena patron saint of Madrid. |
| 1978 On December 27 the king of Spain, Juan Carlos I, signature in Madrid the Spanish Constitution. |
| 1979 On April 3 there are celebrated the first municipal democratic elections, which it will gain the UCD.On April 19, after the agreement PSOE(SPANISH SOCIALIST PARTY) - CPS, which will allow that Enrique Tierno Galván should be converted into the first democratic mayor of Madrid. |
| 1981 On February 23 the Congress of the Deputies is assaulted in a frustrated coup d'Etat commanded by the lieutenant colonel Tejero. |
| 1982 On October 31 the Pope Juan Paul II visits Madrid. |
| 1986 On January 19, 67 years after age, dies Enrique Tierno Galván, the mayor of Madrid more dear, father of the Movida madrileña. |
| 1991 Is celebrated in Madrid the Conference of Peace of Middle East, where the process of peace is initiated between Israel and the Palestinian State. |
| 1993 On June 15 the Pope Juan Paul II cosecrate the cathedral of the Almudena. |
| 1995 On March 16 a fire destroys the half of the Congress hall and Exhibitions of Madrid.On the 10th, is inaugurated the aquarium of the Zoo of Madrid, including a great tank for sharks. |
| 1999 On October 30 was inaugurated the organ of the Cathedral of the Almudena, which measures are 11,5 meters.On December 16, the first ice rink was inaugurated, outdoors, in Felipe's II square.On December 19 the four new bells are blessed. |
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