Timeline of Spanish history

__NOTOC__This is a timeline of Spanish history. To read about the background to these events, see History of Spain.

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15th - 16th - 17th - 18th - 19th - 20th - 21st

15th century

:"See also Spanish Empire, Spanish Golden Age"
* 1469
** 19 October - marriage of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon lays the foundation of the unification of Castile and Aragon into Spain.
* 1475–1479 - War of the Castilian Succession
* 1478
** Spanish Inquisition founded.
* 1479
** 4 September - By the Treaty of Alcáçovas, Portugal recognises Spanish control of the Canary Islands.
* 1492
** Christopher Columbus discovers the New World.
** Reconquista completed.
** History of the Jews in Spain: Jews are expelled from Spain by the Alhambra Decree.
* 1499
** Ferdinand II of Aragon allies with Louis XII of France in the Italian War of 1499-1504

16th century

: "See also Habsburg Spain"
* 1561 - Philip II moves his court to Madrid.
* 1568–1648 - Dutch Revolt against Habsburg control of the Netherlands.
* 1580 - Iberian Union of the crowns of Aragon, Castile and Portugal until 1640.
* 1585–1604 - Anglo–Spanish War.
* 1588
** 8 August - Spanish Armada defeated in the English Channel.

17th century

* 1618–1648 - Thirty Years' War

18th century

: "See also Enlightenment Spain"
* 1701–1714 - War of the Spanish Succession
* 1761 - Spain declares war on Great Britain in the Seven Years' War.
* 1778 - Spain supports the United States in the American Revolutionary War.

19th century

: "See also Mid-nineteenth century Spain, Spain under the Restoration"
* 1808–1814 - Peninsular War.
* 1806–1807 - British invasions of the Río de la Plata
* 1808
** 2 May - Dos de Mayo Uprising in Madrid against the French occupation of the city.
* 1809–1824 - Bolivian Independence War
* 1811–1823 - Venezuelan War of Independence
* 1812 - Spanish Constitution of 1812
* 1815–1816 - Spanish reconquest of New Granada
* 1820–1823 - Spanish Civil War, 1820-1823
* 1833–1839 - First Carlist War
* 1846–1849 - Second Carlist War
* 1864–1866 - Chincha Islands War
* 1868–1878 - Ten Years' War with Cuba
* 1872–1876 - Third Carlist War
* 1873–1874 - First Spanish Republic
* 1898
** 25 April–12 August - Spanish-American War

20th century

: "See also Spain under the Restoration, Spain under Franco, Spanish transition to democracy, Spanish society after the democratic transition, History of Spain (1975–present)"
* 1914–1918 - Spain remains neutral in World War I
* 1920–1926 - Rif War
* 1931–1939 - Second Spanish Republic
* 1936–1939 - Spanish Civil War
* 1937
** 26 April - Bombing of Guernica
* 1939–1945 - Spain remains neutral in World War II
* 1957–1958 - Ifni War
* 1959–1973 - Period of economic growth known as the Spanish miracle.
* 1975
** The Green March forces Spain to hand over its last remaining colonial possession, Western Sahara, to Morocco
** 19 November - death of Francisco Franco, the monarchy is restored with Juan Carlos I of Spain.
* 1978 - Spanish Constitution of 1978
* 1981
** 23 February - attempted coup known as 23-F.
* 1986
** Spain joins the European Union.
* 1992
** Summer Olympics held in Barcelona

21st century

* 2002
** 1 January - Spain adopts the Euro currency.
* 2004
** 11 March - Madrid train bombings kill 191 and injure 2,050.