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960 - Sancho I of León is reinstated as King of León. Vikings raid Galicia and kill the bishop Sisenand of Santiago de Compostela in battle, but his successor St. Rudesind rallies the local forces and kills the Viking leader Gundered. 967 - Ramiro III becomes King of León. 971 - Another minor Viking raid in Galicia.
1276 - James I of Aragon in power. [1] 1289 - Catholic see relocated from Cartagena to Murcia. [1] 1585 - Sacked again by an English fleet under Sir Francis Drake. [1] 1643 - 3 September Battle of Cartagena (1643). 1691 - Cofradía del Socorro (Cartagena) [ es] founded. 1706 - 21 September: Battle of El Albujón in El Albujón [ es] during the ...
History of Spain. Spain in the 19th century was a country in turmoil. Occupied by Napoleon from 1808 to 1814, a massively destructive "liberation war" ensued. Following the Spanish Constitution of 1812, Spain was divided between the 1812 constitution's liberal principles and the absolutism personified by the rule of Ferdinand VII, who repealed ...
466. Theodoric II was murdered and succeeded by his younger brother Euric as king of the Visigoths, declaring total independence from Roman influence and extending during his reign the Visigothic kingdom to most of the Iberian Peninsula. 485. Euric died and was succeeded by his son Alaric II as king of the Visigoths.
1593: Richard Hawkins (England) maps the northern coastline, naming the islands Hawkins Maydenlande after himself and Queen Elizabeth. Whether the islands were in fact the Falklands is disputed. 1600: Sebald de Weert ( Netherlands) sights the islands. This is widely accredited as the first sighting of the islands.
1512. Indigenous Cuban resistance leader Hatuey is burned at the stake. 1519. Havana founded as San Cristóbal de la Habana (north coast) 1523. Emperor Charles V authorizes 4,000 gold pesos for the construction of cotton mills. 1527. The first African slaves arrive in Cuba. 1532.
Two horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) and yellow (middle). The yellow stripe is twice the height of each red stripe. Designed by. Charles III. The national flag of Spain ( Spanish: Bandera de España) [a], as it is defined in the Constitution of 1978, consists of three horizontal stripes: red, yellow and red, the yellow stripe being ...
