12,104
edits
Spain History: Difference between revisions
m
Edited History and Timeline
mNo edit summary |
m (Edited History and Timeline) |
||
| Line 22: | Line 22: | ||
==Timeline== | ==Timeline== | ||
1492 - After 800 years of Muslim presence in Spain, the last Nasrid sultanate of Granada, a tributary state would finally surrender to the Catholic monarchs Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon<br> | 1492 - After 800 years of Muslim presence in Spain, the last Nasrid sultanate of Granada, a tributary state would finally surrender to the Catholic monarchs Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon<br> | ||
1609 - 1614 A significant proportion of Spain's formerly-Muslim population was expelled, settling primarily in North Africa, over 300,000 Moriscos were sent on ships to North Africa and other locations, and, of this figure, around 50,000 died resisting the expulsion, and 60,000 died on the journey<br> | 1609 - 1614 A significant proportion of Spain's formerly-Muslim population was expelled, settling primarily in North Africa, over 300,000 Christian Moriscos were sent on ships to North Africa and other locations, and, of this figure, around 50,000 died resisting the expulsion, and 60,000 died on the journey<br> | ||
1920 - 1927 The Rif War was an armed conflict fought between the colonial power Spain, later joined by France and the Berber tribes of the Rif mountainous region<br> | |||
1934 - The Asturian miners strike was a major strike action, against the entry of the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right into the Spanish government which took place in Asturias in northern Spain, that developed into a revolutionary uprising. It was crushed by the Spanish Navy and the Spanish Republican Army, the latter using mainly Moorish colonial troops from Spanish Morocco<br> | |||
1936 - 1939 Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Second Spanish Republic, in alliance with the Anarchists and Communists, fought against the Nationalists, an alliance of Falangists, Monarchists, and Catholics, led by General Francisco Franco. The war was known as a struggle between democracy and fascism. The war claimed the lives of over 500,000 people and caused the flight of up to a half-million citizens from the country<br> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
[[Category:Spain]] | [[Category:Spain]] | ||