Biology:Timeline of Valencia
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Valencia, Spain .
Prior to 20th century
- 137 BCE - Foundation of Valentia Edetanorum es by the Romans.[1]
- 1010 CE - City becomes capital of the Taifa of Valencia.
- 1064 CE - Al-Mamun of Toledo in power.[2]
- 1094 - Castilian Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar in power.[3]
- 1109 - Almoravid Masdali in power.[3]
- 1238 - City becomes capital of the Aragonese Kingdom of Valencia.[4]
- 1261 - Furs of Valencia (law) promulgated.
- 1262 - Valencia Cathedral construction begins.[5]
- 1283 - Consulate of the Sea established.[6]
- 1349 - Torres de Serranos (gate) built.[5]
- 1380 - Public clock installed (approximate date).[7]
- 1444 - Torres de Cuarto es (gate) built.[5]
- 1473 - Printing press in use.[8]
- 1474 - "Poetical contest" held.[9]
- 1483 - Llotja de la Seda construction begins.[1]
- 1568 - Juan de Ribera becomes Archbishop of Valencia.[3]
- 1707 - Bourbons in power.[4]
- 1776 - Real Sociedad Económica Valenciana de Amigos del País established.[10]
- 1812 - 9 January: City taken by French forces es.[4]
- 1840 - Domingo Mascarós es becomes mayor.
- 1858 - Plaza de Toros de Valencia opens.
- 1887 - Population: 170,763.[4]
- 1897 - Population: 204,768.[4]
20th century
- 1913 - Museu de Belles Arts de València established.
- 1915 - Teatro Olympia es opens.[11]
- 1917 - Estació del Nord (railway station) opens.
- 1930 - Population: 320,195.[12]
- 1933
- December: "Anarchist uprising es."[13]
- Valencia Airport built.
- 1937 - The city becomes the capital of the Republican controlled Spain.
- 1940 - Population: 450,756.[12]
- 1946 - Cine Majestic (cinema) opens.[11]
- 1957 - October: 1957 Valencia flood.
- 1958 - Adolfo Rincón de Arellano Garcia becomes mayor.
- 1970 - Population: 653,690.[12]
- 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.[14]
- 1995
- Metrovalencia in operation.
- Eduardo Zaplana becomes president of the regional Generalitat Valenciana government.[14]
21st century
- 2006 - 3 July: Valencia Metro derailment.
- 2010 - Valenbisi bikeshare begins operating.[15]
- 2013 - Population: 792,303.
- 2015 - Valencia City Council election, 2015 held; Joan Ribó elected mayor.
See also
- Valencia history
- History of Valencia
- List of mayors of Valencia
Other cities in the autonomous Valencian Community:(es)
- Timeline of Alicante
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ring 1996.
- ↑ Henry Smith Williams, ed (1908). "History in Outline". Parthians, Sassanids, and Arabs. Historians History of the World. Hooper & Jackson. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrAVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA40.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ruiz Amado 1912.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Haydn 1910.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 John Tavenor Perry (1893). Chronology of Mediæval and Renaissance Architecture. J. Murray. https://books.google.com/books?id=pLksAAAAYAAJ.
- ↑ Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. (2013), "Merchant Guilds", in Cynthia Clark Northrup, Encyclopedia of World Trade, Routledge, ISBN 9780765682680
- ↑ Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=9Za4jdBEVB4C&pg=PA392.
- ↑ F. J. Norton (1966). Printing in Spain 1501-1520. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-13118-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=vOY-btAmNokC&pg=PA158.
- ↑ George Ticknor (1888), History of Spanish Literature, 1 (6th ed.), Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, https://archive.org/stream/historyofspanish01tick#page/354/mode/2up (see also index entry for Valencia)
- ↑ Braulio Antón Ramírez, ed (1865). "Sociedades economicas del reino" (in es). Diccionario de bibliografía agronómica. Madrid: Manuel Rivadeneyra. pp. 390–409. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/ucm.5309027638?urlappend=%3Bseq=412.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Movie Theaters in Valencia". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/spain/valencia?status=all. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "Alterations to the municipalities in the Population Censuses since 1842: Valencia". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain). http://www.ine.es/intercensal/. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ↑ Francisco J. Romero Salvadó (2013). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5784-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=wsE7Nm9-yDEC&pg=PR21.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Spain's municipal and regional elections: a dry run for next year", The Economist, 22 May 2003, http://www.economist.com/node/1800755
- ↑ Javier Molina-García (2013). "Bicycling to university: evaluation of a bicycle-sharing program in Spain". Health Promotion International. ISSN 1460-2245. http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/06/27/heapro.dat045.full.
This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.
Bibliography
See also: Bibliography of Valencia (in Spanish)
- Published in the 19th century
- Josiah Conder (1830), "Valencia", The Modern Traveller, London: J.Duncan, https://archive.org/stream/moderntraveller18condiala#page/142/mode/2up
- Thomas Henry Dyer (1872). "Valentia". in William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.ah5cur?urlappend=%3Bseq=1280.
- Richard Stephen Charnock (1894), "Valencia", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Spain and Portugal, W.J. Adams & Sons, OCLC 36885426, https://archive.org/stream/bradshawsillust03chargoog#page/n114/mode/2up
- Published in the 20th century
- "Valencia". Spain and Portugal (3rd ed.). Leipsic: Karl Baedeker. 1908. OCLC 1581249. https://archive.org/stream/spainportugalhan00karlrich#page/n479/mode/2up.
- "Valencia", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424, https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediabri27chisrich#page/844/mode/2up
- Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Valencia", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co., https://archive.org/stream/haydnsdictionary00hayd#page/1463/mode/1up
- Ramón Ruiz Amado (1912). "Valencia". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York. https://archive.org/stream/catholicencyclop15herbuoft#page/251/mode/1up.
- Trudy Ring, ed (1996). "Valencia". Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 734+. OCLC 31045650. https://books.google.com/books?id=Qcr9AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA734.
External links
- Map of Valencia, 1943
- Europeana. Items related to Valencia, various dates.
- Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Valencia, various dates
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