Timeline of Valencia

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

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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]
• 1147 – Ibn Mardanish re-establishes Taifa of Valencia, uniting it with Murcia
• 1172 – Almohad Caliphate takes control
• 1229 – Taifa re-established by Zayyan Ibn Mardanish
• 1238 – City conquered by the Christians and 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]
• 1391 – Massacre of 1391 against the Jews of Valencia
• 1444 – Torres de Quart (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.
• 1868 — Plaza de la Reina begins with a small triangular plaza.
• 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]
• 1970 - Plaza de la Reina completed.
• 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)
• 2013 – Population: 792,303.
• 2015 – Valencia City Council election, 2015 held; Joan Ribó elected mayor.
• 2022 - Plaza de la Reina renovation completed.

See also

• Valencia history
• History of Valencia
• List of mayors of Valencia [es]

Other cities in the autonomous Valencian Community:^(es)

• Timeline of Alicante