Chronology of Spain

• -1200: Age of the fields of ballot boxes. Mythical origin of Tartessos.
• -1100 : The phenicians found Cadiz. Entry of indoeuropéens groups in the Peninsula.
• -1000 : Beginning of the era of Iron in the Peninsula.
• -800 : Entry of Celtic groups in the Peninsula coming from the valley of the Rhone. They settle in the septentrional part.
• -700 : Culture of Iron in Meseta (Tired Cogotas)
• -630: Argantonio, king de Tartessos. Travel of Colaios de Samos described by Hérodote.
• -630 : Celtic new wave towards Meseta.
• -300 : foundation of the celtibère city of Numance.
• -236 : Amilcar Barca moves towards the south of the Peninsula the base of military operations cataginoises.
• -226 : Treaty of Ebre between Romans and cartaginois.
• -225 : Foundation of Carthago Nova (Cartagène), capital of the empire barcide enn occident.
• -219 : Resistance and falls of Sagonte, allied of Rome, under L attack of Hannibal.Origine of the second Punic War.
• -197 : Conquest of Cadiz, last bastion cartaginois in the Peninsula and Roman victory of Ilipa. Hispanie remains under the control of Rome. Division of Hispanie in Ulterior and Citerior.
• -155 : Beginning of the war lusitano-Roman in which Viriato will imosera like the chief of native-born people until his assassination into -139.
• -137: The Roman proconsul Decimus Iunius Brutus conducted victorious campaigns in Ibérie, in the south of current Portugal, before moving more to north. The tribe of Gallaicoi faced the Roman legions in 137 av. J. - C. with the battle of Douro; this battle concludes by one crushing Roman victory against 60.000 Galicians, and the Roman general Brutus was accepted in Rome like a hero, receiving the name of Gallaicus, according to the historian Paulus Orosius.
• -133 Numancea resisted a long time the conquest by the Romans from -143 to -133. The city was finally taken and destroyed into -133 by Scipion Émilien after a long and brutal seat. The Roman occupation continues through the valley of Ebre and Meseta.
• -83 : Wars sertoriennes in Hispanie.
• -72 : Perpenna overcomes Sertorius with Osca (Huesca) and Pumped subjects Perpenna and the cities faithful to the sertorienne cause.
• -61 : Jules César orders one second invasion of Galicia, while unloading in Brigantium (Corogne). From this moment, the Galicians were massively enlisted like auxiliary troops in the Roman legions. More than one third of the Roman auxiliary troops coming from Ibérie belonged to the tribes of the North-West of the peninsula.
• -49 : César overcomes the partisans of Pumped in Ilerda and definitively in Munda into -45.
• -29: Wars against Cantabres and asturiens (- 29/-19) which makes it possible Rome to dominate Iberian space.
• 13: Division of Hispanie in Lusitania, Baetica and Tarraconensis.
• 65 : Sénèque and its Lucain nephew die in Rome by order of Néron.
• 74 : The Vespasien emperor concedes the Roman citizenship with the Hispanic ones.
• 98 : Betic Trajan is named Empereur.
• 117 : Hadrian or Adrien (Latin: IMPERATOR•CAESAR•TRAIANVS•HADRIANVS•AVGVSTVS) is an Roman Emperor, born on January 24th, 76 in Italica in Bétique (Spain), and died on July 10th, 138 in its residence. It succeeds his Trajan adoptive father into 117, while having reinforced its bond with the imperial family thanks to the marriage with Vibia Sabina, a niece of Trajan.
• 166 : The plague devastates Hispanie whereas bands of natives of North Africa attack the cities of the south of the Peninsula.
• 258 : Francs and of Alamans invade the Peninsula, they remain there during 10 years.
• 286 : Division of Hispanie in Gallaecia, Tarraconensis, Carthaginensis, Baetica and Lusitania.
• 306 : Council of Elvira, first synod of the Hispanic Church.
• 379 : Théodose Ier (Flavius Theodosius), born on January 11th, 347 in Cauca, today Coke, a small town in the North-West of the Spanish province of Gallaecia (346- January 17th, 395) was Roman Emperor and Byzantine from 379 to 395. He was the last emperor to reign on a reunified empire.
• 380 : The council of Caesaraugusta (Saragossa) decides against the priscillianism, although it is only into 384, with the council of Bordeaux, that he is recognized like heresy.
• 409 : Germanic tribes (Suèves, Visigoths and Vandals) arrive in Hispanie.
• 411 : Creation of the Suève kingdom in Gallaecia.
• 416 : The Visigoths and their king Wallia continue their invasion of Spain, where they are sent to the pay of Rome to fight other Barbarians.
• 429 : The Vandals leave Hispanie.
• 441 : Rekhila, king suève, conquer Seville while Bagaudes devastate the valley of Ebre.
• 456 : Defeat of Suèves with Orbigo vis-a-vis the Visigoths.
• 475 : Euric breaks the foedus with the Roman Empire and begins the occupation wisigothe from the Peninsula.
• 476 : September 4th, 476 is a date symbolic system selected as the fall of the Roman Occident: king Odoacre, chief German of Hérules, occupies Rome putting an end to the Roman Empire Occident. With the catch of Ravenne, it deposits the last emperor of Occident, Romulus Augustule, which is exiled in Campania, and returns the imperial badges to Byzance, so that Zénon recognizes it like Patrice. Zénon returns it to the legitimate emperor of Occident, Julius Nepos, then taken refuge in Dalmatie. Odoacre refuses and the things remain about it there. Seemingly, Odoacre controls in the name of the only emperor, that of the East. In fact, the Western Empire ceased existing.

Middle Ages

• 506 : Breviary of Alaric, it is a collection of Roman law promulgated by the king Visigoth Alaric II, into 506. This denomination appears only at the 16th century to replace lex romana wisigothorum. It is mainly of a compilation and an interpretation of the Code of Théodose (438), intended for the Gallo-Roman and romano-Hispanic subjects of the Visigoths.

• 507 : Defeat wisigothe in Vouillé and died of Alaric II on the battle field.
• 522 : The Byzantine emperor Justinien, sends military forces in Hispanie in support of Athanagild; formation of the Byzantine province of peninsular south-east.
• 542 : Great epidemic of bubonic plague, with the catastrophic effects in Tarraconaise.
• 575 : Léovigild strikes the first gold currencies (tremis), symbol of royal sovereignty.
• 575 : Rebellion of Herménégild with his/her father Léovigild, it will last until 585.

• 585 : End of the Suève kingdom.

• 589 : III Council of Tolède.Le Catholicism becomes the official religion of the kingdom Visigoth, in the past disciples of the arianism. The councils are transformed into pillars of the political organization.
• 589 : Sisebuth orders the conversion of the Jews to Christianity.
• 620 : Isidore saint of Seville dedication in Sisebuth its Etymologies.
• 625 : Expulsion of the last Romans.
• 654 : Receswinthe promulgates the Judiciorum Liber.
• 679 : Fallen through unloading of the Moslems in Hispanie.
• 711 : Internal conflicts between Gift Rodrigue and the clan of Witiza. Countryside of the king against let us vascons. Conquest of wisigothic Spain by the army Moor of Tariq ibn Ziyad come to help Witiza.
• 718 : Victoire de Pélage on Moslem troops with Covadonga. Beginning of Reconquista.
• 730 : Birth of Beatus de Liébana, author of the Comments of the Apocalypse.
• 745 : Great famine in the Peninsula. Rebellion of Berber in the Iberian peninsula against the Arab capacity what allows to the Christians north to reconquer Galicia. It is at that time that the strategic desert of Duero is set up. Because Alphonse I of Asturies did not have enough men nor of sufficient means to take possession of these recovered grounds.
• 754 : Alphonse I of Asturies reconquers Leon.
• 755 : Abd Al-Rahman Ier last survivor of the omeyades unloads in the pénisule in order to assert its rights.
• 757 : Abd Al-Rahman Ier seizes the Al-Andalus capacity, it proclaims Emir.
• 778 : Battle of Roncevaux between the troops of Charlemagne, come to in vain take Saragossa and those of Vascons.
• 785 : The Carolingians occupy Gérone.

• 807 : The discovery of the tomb of the Saint-Jacob apostle in Compostelle starts to be diffused in the world.

• 810 : The clans let us vascons meet after having elected for chief Eneko Arista (810-851): beginning of the kingdom of Pampelune.
• 844 : attacks Normans against Gijon, Lisbon, Cadiz…
• 880: The Christian converted with the islmam Omar Ben Hafsun enters in rebellion.
• 917 : Victoire of the armies of Navarre and the Leon with San Esteban de Gormaz. Repopulation of the grounds of Douro.
• 929 : Abd Al-Rahman III proclaims Caliph de Cordoue.
• 939 : Battle of Simancas. Defeat of Abd Al-Rahman III.
• 979 : Ibn “Âmir Al-Mansûr says Almanzor, Prime Minister for the caliphate of Cordoue seizes the capacity.
• 1000 : Sancho III Bitchy girls (v. 990 - October 18th, 1035), known as the Large one (Spanish: el Mayor or el Grande), is King d' Aragon and King de Navarre of 1000 or 1004 until its death and Count de Castille of 1029 with its death.
• 1002 : Demolished of Almanzor with Calatañazor, he dies of his wounds.
• 1008 : Civil war between Moslems.
• 1012 : Total decomposition of the Caliphate of Cordoue. Small independent Moslem kingdoms are born, Taifas.
• 1037 : First Union of the kingdoms of Galicia of the Leon and castille (1037-1065) under Ferdinand Ier the Large one.
• 1072 : Second Union of the kingdoms of Galicia of the Leon and castille (1072-1157)
• 1085: Alphonse VI of Castille conquers Toléde, the old capital of the Visigoths.
• 1086 : The almoravides come to help the Al-Andalus Moslems.
• 1118 : Alphonse I of Aragon and Navarre conquers Saragossa.
• 1139 : Alphonse Henriques proclaims Alphonse Ier of Portugal.
• 1151 : Treaty of Tudilén between Alphonse VII king de Galice of Leon and Castille and Raimond-Berenger IV of Barcelona in order to be distributed the zones of influence and the conquest of the south and of raising.
• 1160 : General Enciclopédie of Medicine of Averroès.
• 1171 : the caliph almohade Abu Yaqub Yusuf unloads in Spain and settles in Seville.
• 1188 : Convocation with Leon of an extraordinary royal curia where the delegates of the cities are represented, it is the origin of the Cortes.
• 1195 : Defeat of Alphonse VIII in Alarcos by the army almohade.
• 1212 : Victoire of the Christian armies against the Moslem army with the Battle of Mow Navas de Tolosa.
• 1213 : Died of Pierre II of Aragon to the battle of Low wall, vis-a-vis the army of Simon IV of Montfort. From now on the crown of Aragon will carry its glances towards the Mediterranean and either beyond the Pyrenees.
• 1230 : Ferdinand III of Castille joins together the crown of Castille and the Leon.
• 1236 : Ferdinand III of Castille conquers Cordoue, the old capital omeyade.
• 1248 : The conquète of Seville by the Castilians is an significant event of Reconquista. The Moslems keep only Grenade.
• 1282 : Pierre III of Aragon becomes king de Sicile after Sicilian Vespers.
• 1340 : The Christian troops overcome the Moslems with the battle del Salado. It represents the final expulsion of African and the Christian domination on the Straits of Gibraltar.
• 1348 : Black Death.
• 1349 : Catch of Algeciras.
• 1350 : Died of Alphonse XI of Castille, after having been the ally of England during the One hundred Year old War, for economic motives, it signs 3 final pacts with France. From now on the fleet Castilian will collaborate with French in their fight against English. Reign of Pierre I the Cruel one of Castille. War between Pierre and his brother-in-law Henri de Trastamare. Pierre avaiyt for allied English while Henri was helped by French.
• 1358 : Charles I of Navarre is named Gouverneur of Paris by the partisans of Etienne Marcel in fight against the dolphin, future Charles V the Wise one.
• 1361 : Peace of Terrer in the war of both Pierre
• 1369: Assassination of Pierre I of Castille with Montiel. New dynasty of Henri II of Castille: Trastamares.
• 1381 : Great Plague. Economic crisis.
• 1390 : Died of Jean I of Castille, minority of Henri III, anarchy in the kingdom.
• 1391 : Pogroms antijuifs in Castille and Aragon.
• 1406 : Untimely death of Henri III, minority of Jean II of Castille, regency of his/her uncle Ferdinand, later king d' Aragon (Ferdinand I). With its majority Jean II left the capacity to its favorite Alvaro de Luna.
• 1419 : The fleet Castilian destroys the anglo-Hanseatic fleet vis-a-vis the port of the La Rochelle.
• 1443 : Naples falls to the hands from the troops from Alphonse V from Aragon.
• 1454 : Reign of Henri IV, rebellion of the nobility.

Modern period

• 1474 : Isabelle queen of Castille.

• 1476 : Defeat portuguaise, in favor of Juana the beltraneja, in Toro. End of the civil war in Castille.
• 1479 : Treated of Alcaçovas between Portugal and Castille, which ratifies the Portuguese domination on the African coasts and the Atlantiques islands, except the Canaries.
• 1492 : Conquest of Grenade, end of the reconquest. Discovered New World by Christophe Colomb. Expulsion of the Hispanic Jews.
• 1494 : The treaty of Tordesillas, signed with Tordesillas (Valladolid) in Castille on June 7th, 1494, establishes the division of the New World only between the two emergent colonial powers Spain and Portugal with for dividing line a North-South meridian line localized to 370 miles (1770 km) in the west of the islands of Cape Verde.
• 1497 : Conquest of Melilla.
• 1503 : Gonzalve de Cordoue ensures the preponderance Castilian on Naples, victory with Cérignoles, in Italy. Annexation of the kingdom of Naples to that of Sicily.
• 1504 : Truce of Blois, Louis XII gives up the kingdom of Naples to Ferdinand d' Aragon.
• 1505 : Conquest of Mazalquivir.
• 1506 : Died of king d' Espagne Philippe I. Regency of Ferdinand the Catholic.
• 1507 : Charles (future Charles Quint) becomes duke of Burgundy and count de Flandres.
• 1509 : Conquest of Oran by the troops Castilians.
• 1510 : Conquest of Béjaïa.
• 1511 : Sermon of the Dominican Antonio de Montesinos in defense of the Indians. Conquest of Tripoli.
• 1512 : Promulgation of the Laws of Burgos, which constitute the first legislative code concerning the Indians. Navarre becomes possession of Castille.
• 1513 : The Spanish explorer Juan Sandpapers of Leon, takes possession of Florida in the name of Castille. French is beaten in Novare, leave the Milanese. Amendments with the Laws of Burgos. Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean. End of the war of Italy, by the reconciliation of Louis XII and of the pope Leon X.
• 1514: A royal promise to pay authorizes the interethnic marriages. Juan de Aroya addressing itself to cacic Catarapa, reads for the first time the text of Requerimiento which forces the Indians to submit themselves to Europeans.
• 1515 : Proclamation of the majority of Charles (future Charles Quint), it is 15 years old. Victoire of François I in Marignan, it occupies the Milanese.
• 1516 : Ferdinand the catholic names his grandson Charles of Ghent, future Charles V, heir to his possessions, the Cisneros cardinal is named provisional governor until the arrival of Charles.Juan Diaz de Solis takes possession of the coasts of Uruguay in the name of Charles I of Spain (future Charles Quint). Charles I of Spain east elected Emperor of Crowned Empire Romain, he becomes Charles V of Germany. The news is badly perceived in Castille because Charles thinks of being based on the richness of Castille in order to provide for his expenses with election of the Empire. Peace of Boundary-line.
• 1520 : After the departure of Charles the rebellion begins from " mow Comunidades" and of the " Germanias".
• 1521 : Defeat of the " Comuneros" with Villalar and of the French having benefitted from the insurrection to invade Navarre
• 1521: Conquest of the Aztec empire by Hernan the Cortes. First free-imperial war 1521-1526.
• 1525 : French defeat in Pavia. François I is captured by the troops of Charles Quint.
• 1526 : Treaty of Madrid.
• 1527 : 2nd free-imperial war 1527-1529.
• 1529 : Cambric peace, known as peace of the Ladies.
• 1535 : Pizarro captures the emperor INCA Atahualpa in Cajamarca. Conquest of Tunis.
• 1536 : 3rd free-imperial war 1535-1538, allianco official free-Othoman.
• 1538 : Truce of Nice: interview of Acute-Dead.
• 1542 : 4th free-imperial 1542-1546.
• 1543 : Naval countryside free-Othoman against Nice.
• 1544 : Peace of Crépy-in-Laonnois.
• 1547 : Victoire de Mühlberg.
• 1551 : Treaty of lochau-Chambord.
• 1552 : 5th free-imperial war 1552-1556.
• 1555 : Chales Quint abdicates with the profit of his/her son Philippe II.
• 1556 : Truce of Vaucelles.
• 1557 : 6th free-imperial war 1557-1559. French defeat in Saint-Quentin.
• 1558 : Died of Charles Quint.
• 1559 : Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis.
• 1560 : Madrid, capital of Philippe II.
• 1571 : Victoire de Lepante on the Turkish fleet.
• 1581 : Portugal as its possessions form part of the Spanish empire.
• 1588 : Disaster of Invincible Armada.
• 1598 : Died of Philippe II and reigns of Philippe III.
• 1601 : Capital Valladolid of Spain.
• 1610 : Expulsion D “Spain of the descendants Moors, the morisques ones.
• 1620 : Victoire with the White Mountain close to Prague. Spain controls with an iron hand the European policy.
• 1621 : Died of Philippe III and reigns of Philippe IV.
• 1625 : Catch of Breda by the Spanish troops.
• 1626 : the Union of the Weapons, decided by Philippe IV of Spain.
• 1634 : Spanish Victoire of Nördlingen. Puts an end to Swedish hegemony in Germany.
• 1640 : Rising of Catalonia.
• 1643 : defeat of Rocroi.
• 1665 : Died of Philippe IV and beginning of the regency of Marie Anne of Austria.
• 1659 : Treated of the Pyrenees, between France and Spain.
• 1675 : Reign of Charles II.
• 1700 : Died of Charles II last monarch of the dynasty of Habsbourgs, in his will it names Philippe of Anjou (future Philippe V) for heir.
• 1702 : War of succession to the Throne of Spain until 1714.
• 1704: Great Britain occupies Gibraltar.
• 1714 : Peace of Utrecht.
• 1724 : Short reign of Louis I. His father Philippe V returns to the capacity.
• 1734 : First Pact of Family with France of the Bourbons.
• 1746 : Reign of Ferdinand VI.
• 1750 : Treaty of Madrid (Spain and Portugal)
• 1759: Reign of Charles III.
• 1763 : Second Pact of Family.
• 1766 : Rising against the reforms of the Esquilache minister.
• 1783 : Recovery of Ménorque and Florida.

Contemporary period

• 1790 : Rupture of the Pact of Family.

• 1792 : Godoy appointed president of the Council of State.
• 1796 : Alliance with the Directory.
• 1801 : Invasion of Portugal by Spain.
• 1808 : Inversion of the monarchical mode of the Bourbons by Napoleon. Beginning of a war of guerilla enters the Spanish people and the French invaders. The War of Spain announces the decline of Napoleon. French defeat with Bailen.
• 1810 : first meeting of the general and Extraordinary Cortes in the island of Leon. Beginning of the movements of emancipation in America.
• 1811 : the Cortes move in Cadiz. Sending of troops in America.
• 1813 : Jose I Bonaparte is expelled of Spain by the Spanish people. Napoleon gives up the Spanish throne.
• 1814 : Return of the Bourbons in Spain.
• 1815 : Departure of a task force (General Morillo) in America to try to slow down the movement of independence.
• 1820 : Rising of Raphael de Riego against the absolutist policy of Ferdinand VII, the constitution of 1812 is accepted by the king who had abolished it. Riego had been named with the head of an army which was about to turn over to reconquer the raised territories of America.
• 1823 : A hundred and Thousand Wire of Saint-Louis put an end to the constitucionelle period of the mode of Ferdinand VII.
• 1833 : Died of Ferdinand VII. First war carlist. Civil war (1833/1840) for the throne enters the partisans of Isabelle II, girl of Ferdinand VII, and Gift Carlos, uncle d' Isabelle II. Regency of Marie-Cristine until 1840.
• 1836: Religious Désamortissement, law of Mendizabal.
• 1837 : Constitution progressist.
• 1840 : A rising progressist leads the Espartero general to the capacity.
• 1841 : Espartero is named Régent. Rising of O'Donnell.
• 1843 : Successful Pronunciamento of Prim and Narvaez (coalition of moderated and progressists) against Espartero. Isabelle II reached the majority.
• 1844 : Creation of the Civil guard.
• 1845 : Constitution.
• 1846 : Second war carlist (1846/1849).
• 1851 : Legal settlement.
• 1854 : Successful Pronunciamento of the O'Donnell generals and Dulce with Vicalvaro, alliance between moderated and progressistes." Bienio progresista"
• 1855 : Civil Désarmortissement, law of Madoz.
• 1856 : Fall of Espartero. End of the " Bienio progresista"
• 1858 : Occupation of Fernando Poo.
• 1859 : The first military operations in Morocco.
• 1861 : Forwarding in Mexico.
• 1862 : Spain withdraws itself from Mexico.
• 1864 : War of the Pacific with Peru then Chile.
• 1865 : Final loss of Santo Domingo.
• 1868 : Beginning of the 10 year old War with Cuba. Revolution which expels Isabelle II of Spain.
• 1871 : Amédée I king d' Espagne.
• 1872 : Third war carlist (1872/1876).
• 1873 : Proclamation of the First Republic. Repression of the movements federalists.
• 1874 : Coup d'etat of the Pavia general who puts an end to the short First Republic. Operation soldiers in Guinea. Pronunciamiento of the General Martinez Campos in favor of the prince Alphonse, future Alphonse XII, wire of Isabelle II.
• 1878 : Peace of fine Zanjon putting at the Ten Year old war in Cuba.
• 1879 : Foundation in the clandestinity of the P.S.O.E
• 1881: Beginning of the political turno.
• 1883 : Pronunciamentos republicans.
• 1885 : Died of Alphonse XII and regency of Marie Christine. Conflict with Germany on the Carolines Islands.
• 1888 : Foundation of the General union of Workers (UGT)
• 1890: Law on the vote for all (men of more than 25 years)
• 1893: War of Mellila (Morocco)
• 1895: War of Cuba.
• 1896 : Insurrection in Philippines.
• 1897 : Assassination of Canovas del Castillo.
• 1898 : Incident of Maine. Disaster of Surges (Filipino) and Santiago (Cuba). Treaty of bets and loss of Cuba, Puerto Rico and Philippines.
• 1899 : Sale of the Carolines Islands in Germany.
• 1902 : Treaty on Morocco. Beginning of the reign of Alphonse XIII.
• 1906 : Conference of Algeciras, dividing Morocco into zones of influence.
• 1909 : Tragic week in Barcelona, seriously repressed popular rising. War in Morocco.
• 1910 : Foundation of the CNT.
• 1912 : Spain receives mandate for the zone of Rif.
• 1917 : The revolutionary strike fails.
• 1920: Foundation of the Foreign legion.
• 1921 : Disaster of Annual.
• 1923 : Coup d'etat of the Primo de Rivera general. Alphonse XIII remains king d' Espagne.
• 1925 : Victoire d' Alhucemas on the Moroccan rebels, Franco plays a great part there.
• 1927 : Foundation of the FAI.
• 1928 : Creation of the Military General Academy chaired by Free until its dissolution.
• 1930 : Primo de Rivera gives up the capacity. Coup attempt of republican state in Jaca.
• 1931 : Victoire of the republicans to the municipal elections. Proclamation of the Republic. Removal of the military general Academy of Saragossa.
• 1932 : The pronunciamento of the Sanjurjo general fails. Statute of autonomy of Catalonia.
• 1933 : Victoire of the right-hand side (YIELDED) to the general elections.
• 1934 : Common revolutionist to Asturies. Free assessor of the Minister for the War, organizes the repression of the revolution asturienne.
• 1935 : Free chief of the general staff. Re-establishment of the Military academy.
• 1936 : (February 16th) Victoire of the Popular front to the legislative elections.
• 1936 (July 17th): Coup d'etat of Free and beginning of the war of Spain.
• 1936 (July 24th): Créacion in Burgos of the Junta of Nacionale Defense, chaired by the Cabanellas general, controlled by the Mola general.
• 1936 (October 10th): Elected official a few days before like Généralissime, is proclaimed in Burgos chief of the government of raised Spain.
• 1937 : Free becomes the chief of the sole party.
• 1938 : Battle of Ebre. Departure of the International Brigades.
• 1939 : Catch of Barcelona. (April 1st): official end of the engagements.
• 1946 : Judgment of UNO which excludes pro-Franco Spain from all the international organizations.
• 1948 : End of the actions of guerilla in Spain. Reopening of the Franco-Spanish border. Free meets Don Juan de Bourbon in order to envisage education in Spain of Juan Carlos.
• 1950 : The United States approaches Spain.
• 1953 : Free two diplomatic successes obtain: legal settlement with the Vatican and bilateral agreements with the United States.
• 1955 : Spain is allowed with UNO.
• 1957 : Free chooses 12 new ministers who inaugurate a new economic policy.
• 1956 : Icy February in Spain, loss of harvests and economic crisis, strong inflation, serious attack in the universities, strikes many.
• 1959 : Appearance of the E.T.A. (Euskadi your Askatasuna)
• 1960: " Economic miracle espagnol" until 1970. Economic strong growth.
• 1966 : Creation of the working commissions.
• 1968 : First assassination perpetrated by ETA.
• 1969: (July 22nd) Juan Carlos is proclaimed prince d' Espagne.
• 1972 : Many attacks of ETA.
• 1973 : Carrero Blanco chair government is assassinated by ETA.
• 1974 : Formation of the government of " fermeture" of Carlos Arias. Execution of Puig Antic.
• 1975 : Execution of five militants of the armed struggle.
• 1975 : (November 20th): Died of Free.
• 1975 : (November 22nd): Juan Carlos is proclaimed king d' Espagne.
• 1975 : (December 15th): Juan Carlos confirms in her station, Carlos Arias Navarro, the last president of the council (Prime Minister) of Free.
• 1976 : With the beginning of the year the first two political organizations appear: the Democratic Platform of Coordination representing the democracy-Christian woman and the Socialists on the one hand, on the other hand Democratic Junta directed by the Communist party of Spain (PCE).
• 1976 : (March 3rd): 5 workmen are killed and a hundred people wounded during serious confrontations with Vitoria (Basque Country, Euskadi) between the Police force (called " los grises" by the color of their uniform) and the participants in a working meeting. From this event will be born Democratic Coordination or " Platajunta" , union of Plataforma de Coordinación Democrática and of Junta Democrática.
• 1976 : (May 9th): two militants Carlistes (monarchists of a dissenting branch) are killed in Montejurra (Navarre) by radicals resulting from the same formation.

• 1976 : (July 1st): Navarro arias, in dissension with the political line reformist whom the King wants to follow, is constrained with the resignation.
• 1976 : (July 3rd): Adolfo Suarez, right-hand man of Juan Carlos Ier and the line " aperturiste" who represented the sole party within the government of Arias-Navarro, is thus named at the position of president of the government.
• 1976 : (July): the political parties are legalized except for those which preach a totalitarian state and at the end of the month, on July 31st, 1976 the general amnesty is declared for all the political prisoners or of conscience (except for condammés by terrorist act).
• 1976 : (December 5th, 1976) the PSOE organizes the first free assembly of a left party in Spain since the end of IIe République, 37 years front.
• 1976 : (November 16th): it makes approve by the pro-Franco Cortes their own dissolution (requirement formulated by Franco itself) with the law of political reform (the " Hara-kiri" of the pro-Franco Cortes), validated on December 15th by referendum.
• 1976 : (December 23rd): Santiago Carrillo, General secretary of the PCE, are stopped causing one week after the Public dissolution of the Court of the Order, body of repression of the pro-Franco system.
• 1977 : The beginning of the year is marked by serious terrorist attacks which put in danger the acquired reforms.
• 1977 : (January 24th): a commando neofascist assassinates 5 lawyers and wounds 4 seriously of them (Massacre of Atocha).
• 1977 : (March 30th): trade-union freedom is legalized.
• 1977 : (April 1st): Movimiento Nacional (the old sole party) directed by Suarez accepts its dissolution, act by decree. By the same decree, the censure is repealed.
• 1977 : (April 28th): during the Holy Week, the Communist party of Spain (PCE) is legalized, which will allow the return to the countries of many old exiled republican of which other historic leaders of Spanish Communism like Dolores Ibárruri " Pasionaria". Parliamentary Monarchy and its symbols will be accepted by the PCE. The central trade-unions are legalized (General union of Workers UGT, Socialist and the CCOO, commissions working, communist, will become most important on national level)
• 1977: (May): president Adolfo Suarez created his political own training, the Union of the democratic center (UCD).
• 1977 : (June 15th): After 41 years of abstinence Spanish can again choose their representatives

• 1978 : New Spanish constitution.
• 1981 : (January 29th): Adolfo Suarez weakened on the political plan within its own government presents its resignation.
• 1981 : (February 23rd) coup d'etat fallen through of colonel Tejero.
• 1981 : (February 25th): The successor within the UCD of Adolfo Suarez is Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, which is invested second president of the government of the Spanish democracy.
• 1981 : (April): The divorce is legalized in spite of the opposition of the hierarchy of the Catholic church.
• 1982 : (October 28th): Victoire of the PSOE to the elections.
• 1986 : (January 1st): Entry in the EEC.
• 1986 : (March 12th): Référundum on the entry of Spain in NATO, 52.2% of favorable results.
• 1986 : (June 22nd): The PSOE gains the general elections, 52% of the seats to the House of Commons.
• 1991 : (January 12th): Alfonso Guerra resigns of its post of vice-president of the government.
• 1991 : (April 16th): Law of Safety Citizen, very polemical because the police force can carry out searchings without grant of representation. The law will be approved on November 14th.
• 1992 : (July 25th): XXV Olympic Games of Barcelona.
• 1993 : (April 1st): Died of Don Juan de Bourbon, father of Juan Carlos I.
• 1994: (June 12th): The P.P. (Partido Popular) gains the European elections clearly.
• 1995 : (May 28th): The P.P. obtains an important triumph with the municipal elections and regional.
• 1996 : (May 3rd): After 13 years of socialist capacity, the P.P. reaches the government after its success with the general elections of March 3rd.
• 2000 : (March 12th): The P.P. gains a victory with the legislative elections, it obtains 183 seats out of 350 with the House of Commons, as well as the absolute majority with the Senate.
• 2002 : (November 19th): Oil slick of Prestige.
• 2003 : (March 17th): The marked supreme court the dissolution of Batasuna, inscription on behalf of the U.S.A. and of the European Union of this organization on their lists of the terrorist organizations.
• 2004 : (March 11th): Attacks of Madrid: 191 dead and of very many casualties.
• 2004 : (March 14th): Severe defeat of the P.P. to the elections. The PSOE records its best score since 1989 with 42.6% of the voices.