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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2014

Ralph Penny
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Queen Mary University of London
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  1. 218 bc Roman troops enter northeastern Spain.

  2. 206 bc Defeat of the Carthaginians and capture of Cádiz, their Peninsular capital.

  3. 19 bc Conquest of the remaining parts of the Peninsula (now Galicia, Asturias, Santander and part of the Basque Country), hitherto outside Roman control.

  4. ad 76 Hadrian (Roman emperor 117–38) born, probably in Italica, near Seville.

  5. 410 The Visigoths establish (as foederati) a semi-autonomous kingdom in southwestern Gaul, with their capital at Toulouse.

  6. early 6th c. Visigoths expelled from Gaul by the Franks.

  7. c. 560–636 Lifetime of St Isidore, archbishop of Seville and author of Origines sive etymologiae.

  8. 585 Swabian kingdom of the northwest absorbed into Visigothic Spain.

  9. 711 The Islamic invasion of Spain.

  10. 711–18 Muslims establish control over approximately three quarters of the Peninsula.

  11. 884 Reconquest of Burgos.

  12. 1035 Creation of the kingdom of Castile.

  13. 1080 Council of Burgos.

  14. 1085 Reconquest of Toledo.

  15. 1086 First Almoravid invasion.

  16. 1137 Merger of Aragon with Catalonia.

  17. 1154 Almohads gain control of Islamic Spain.

  18. 1212 Christian victory in the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa.

  19. 1236 Reconquest of Córdoba, followed by that of Jaén (1246), Seville (1248) and Cádiz (1250).

  20. 1244 Castile gains control of the kingdom of Murcia.

  21. 1252–84 Alfonso X the Learned, king of Castile and León.

  22. 1479 Union of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon.

  23. 1492 Granada captured by the Catholic Monarchs.

  24. 1492 Expulsion of Jews from Spain.

  25. 1492 Publication of Antonio de Nebrija's Gramática de la lengua castellana.

  26. 1492 Discovery of America.

  27. 1519–21 Conquest of Mexico.

  28. 1532–5 Conquest of the Inca empire.

  29. c. 1535 Juan de Valdés Valdés, Juan de completes his Diálogo de la lengua Diálogo de la lengua.

  30. […]

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Print publication year: 2002

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  • Introduction
  • Ralph Penny, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: A History of the Spanish Language
  • Online publication: 05 June 2014
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511992827.003
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  • Introduction
  • Ralph Penny, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: A History of the Spanish Language
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  • Introduction
  • Ralph Penny, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: A History of the Spanish Language
  • Online publication: 05 June 2014
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511992827.003
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