Timeline of Seville
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Seville, Andalusia, Spain.
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Prior to 18th century
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- 600 CE - Isidore of Seville becomes bishop.
- 630 - Isidore of Seville compiles encyclopedia Etymologiae (approximate date).
- 713 - Musa bin Nusayr in power.[1]
- 829 - Mosque built.[1]
- 1023 - Abbadid Taifa of Seville established.
- 1181 - Alcázar (fort) construction begins.[2]
- 1198 - Minaret built.
- 1247 - Siege of Seville begins.
- 1248 - Seville incorporated into the Christian Kingdom of Castile under Ferdinand III.
- 1477 - Printing press in use.[3]
- 1503 - Casa de Contratación (trade agency) established.[4]
- 1519
- Magellan embarks on circumnavigation expedition.
- Seville Cathedral built.[2]
- 1521 - Via Crucis to the Cruz del Campo laid out.
- 1543 - Consulado de Cargadores a Indias established.[5]
- 1563 - Court of Philip II relocated from Seville to Madrid.[6]
- 1598 - Merchants exchange built.
- 1627 - Flood.[7]
- 1630 - Artist Zurbarán settles in Seville.[8]
- 1647 - Great Plague of Seville begins.[7]
- 1670 - Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla (guild) established.
- 1682 - University of Navigators building construction begins.
- 1683 - Flood.[7]
18th-19th centuries
- 1717 - Casa de Contratación relocated from Seville to Cádiz.[7]
- 1729
- Court of Philip V relocated to Seville.[9]
- Peace treaty signed in Seville.[6]
- 1758 - Royal Tobacco Factory begins operating.
- 1785 - General Archive of the Indies established.[7]
- 1810 - February: French occupation begins.[6]
- 1812 - French occupation ends.[9]
- 1842 - Population: 100,498.
- 1843 - City besieged by forces of Espartero.[6]
- 1847 - Seville Fair begins.
- 1852 - Triana Bridge built.
- 1869 - City wall dismantled.[1]
- 1881 - Plaza de toros de la Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla (bullring) built.
- 1890 - Sevilla FC (football club) formed.
- 1893 - Maria Luisa Park established.
- 1896 - 28 October: Cyclone.[6]
- 1897 - Population: 146,205.[10]
- 1900 - Population: 148,315.[2]
20th century
- 1902 - Burial site of Christopher Columbus relocated to Seville from Cuba.[6]
- 1907 - Real Betis football club formed.
- 1920 - Population: 205,529.[10]
- 1926 - Puente de Alfonso XIII (bridge) built.
- 1928 - Plaza de España built.
- 1929
- Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 held.
- Estadio Benito Villamarín (stadium) and Lope de Vega Theatre open.
- 1931 - Puente de San Telmo (bridge) built.
- 1936 - July 1936 military uprising in Seville.[11]
- 1950 - Population: 376,627.[10]
- 1959 - Seville Public Library established.
- 1979 - Luis Uruñuela becomes mayor.
- 1981
- Regional Government of Andalusia headquartered in Seville.
- Population: 653,833.[10]
- 1983
- 21 December: Football match (Spain 12–1 Malta) held in Seville.
- Manuel del Valle Arévalo becomes mayor.
- 1987 - UNESCO World Heritage Site in Seville established.
- 1990
- Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra formed.
- Puente de las Delicias (bridge) built.
- 1991
- Teatro de la Maestranza (opera house) opens.
- Puente Reina Sofía (bridge) built.
- Alejandro Rojas-Marcos becomes mayor.
- 1992
- Alamillo Bridge and Puente de la Barqueta (bridge) built.
- Seville Expo '92 held.
- Institución Colombina established.
- 1995 - Soledad Becerril becomes mayor.
- 1999 - Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín becomes mayor.
21st century
- 2009 - Seville Metro begins operating.
- 2011
- Metropol Parasol erected.
- Juan Ignacio Zoido becomes mayor.[12]
- Population: 703,021.
See also
- History of Seville
- List of mayors of Seville
- Timeline of the Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula, circa 8th-15th century CE
Other cities in the autonomous community of Andalusia:(es)
- Timeline of Almería
- Timeline of Cádiz
- Timeline of Córdoba, Andalusia
- Timeline of Granada
- Timeline of Jaén, Spain
- Timeline of Jerez de la Frontera
- Timeline of Málaga
- List of municipalities in Andalusia
References
- 1 2 3 Bosworth 2007.
- 1 2 3 Britannica 1910.
- ↑ F. J. Norton (1966). Printing in Spain 1501-1520. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-13118-6.
- ↑ Toyin Falola and Amanda Warnock, ed. (2007). "Chronology". Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33480-1.
- ↑ Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. (2013) [2005], "Merchant Guilds", in Cynthia Clark Northrup, Encyclopedia of World Trade, Routledge, ISBN 9780765682680
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Haydn 1910.
- 1 2 3 4 5 H. Micheal Tarver, ed. (2016). Spanish Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781610694223. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "Iberian Peninsula, 1600–1800 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- 1 2 Ring 1996.
- 1 2 3 4 "Alterations to the municipalities in the Population Censuses since 1842: Sevilla". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain). Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ↑ Francisco J. Romero Salvadó (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5784-1.
- ↑ "Spanish mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia and French Wikipedia.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- David Brewster, ed. (1832). "Seville". Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker.
- Richard Ford (1855), "Seville", A Handbook for Travellers in Spain (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray, OCLC 2145740
- Sevilla y Cádiz. Recuerdos y bellezas de España (in Spanish). Madrid. 1856.
- John Lomas, ed. (1889), "Seville", O'Shea's Guide to Spain and Portugal (8th ed.), Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black
- Published in the 20th century
- "Seville". Guide to the Western Mediterranean. London: Macmillan and Co. 1906.
- "Seville", Jewish Encyclopedia, 11, New York, 1907
- "Seville", Spain and Portugal (3rd ed.), Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1908, OCLC 1581249
- "Seville", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Seville", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- Nathaniel Newnham Davis (1911), "Seville", The Gourmet's Guide to Europe (3rd ed.), London: Grant Richards
- Ramon Ruiz Amado (1913). "Seville". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
- Somerset Maugham (1920). "Seville". Land of the Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia. New York: A.A. Knopf.
- "Seville, More Spanish Than Spain", National Geographic Magazine, Washington DC, 55, 1929
- R. Valencia (1992). "Islamic Seville - its political, social and cultural history". In Salma Khadra Jayyusi. The Legacy of Muslim Spain. EJ Brill. ISBN 90-04-09599-3.
- Trudy Ring, ed. (1996). "Seville". Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 639. OCLC 31045650.
- Published in the 21st century
- Josef W. Meri, ed. (2006). "Seville". Medieval Islamic Civilization. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96691-7.
- C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Seville". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. pp. 472+.
- Patrick O'Flanagan (2008). "Seville". Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c.1500-1900. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-6109-2.
- David Gilmour (2012). "Seville". Cities of Spain. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4481-3833-3.
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