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Prior to 17th century
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Prehistory
Prehistoric Iberia
Early history
Pre-Roman peoples
Carthaginian Spain (575–206 BCE)
Roman Hispania
Roman Conquest (206–27 BCE)
Hispania (218 BCE–472 CE)
Romanization
Diocese of Hispania
Early Middle Ages
Kingdom of the Suebi (409–585)
Kingdom of the Visigoths (418–721)
Byzantine Spania (552–624)
Middle Ages
Muslim conquest (711–716)
Al-Andalus (711–1492)
Reconquista(711–1492)
Christian kingdoms (718–1479)
Early modern period
Catholic Monarchs (1479–1516)
Granada War (1482–1492)
Colonisation of the Americas (1492–1898)
Habsburgs (1516–1700)
Golden Age (1556–1659)
Iberian Union (1580–1640)
Bourbons (1700–1808)
War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)
Nueva Planta Decrees (1707–1716)
Peninsular War
Abdications of Bayonne (1808)
Napoleonic Spain (1808–1813)
Cortes of Cádiz (1810–1814)
Constitution of Cádiz (1812)
Treaty of Valençay (1813)
Absolutist restoration
Sexenio Absolutista(1814–1820)
Trienio Liberal(1820–1823)
Ominous Decade (1823–1833)
Reign of Isabella II
Regency of María Cristina (1833–1840)
First Carlist War (1833–1840)
Regency of Espartero (1840–1843)
Década moderada(1844–1854)
Second Carlist War (1846–1849)
Bienio progresista(1854–1856)
Glorious Revolution (1868)
Sexenio Democrático
Provisional Government (1868–1871)
Reign of Amadeo I (1870–1873)
Third Carlist War (1872–1876)
First Republic (1873–1874)
Restoration Spain
Reign of Alfonso XII (1874–1885)
Regency of María Cristina (1885–1902)
Reign of Alfonso XIII (1886–1931)
Spanish–American War (1898)
Spain during World War I (1914–1918)
Rif War (–1927)
Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923–1930)
Dictablanda of Dámaso Berenguer (1930–1931)
Second Republic
Provisional Government (1931)
First Biennium (1931–1933)
Second Biennium (1933–1936)
Revolution and Asturian miners' strike (1934)
1936 general election (1936)
1936 coup d'état (1936)
1936 Revolution (1936)
Civil War (1936–1939)
Nationalist victory (1939)
Francoist Spain
Spain during World War II (1939–1945)
Blue Division (1941–1944)
Spanish Maquis (1939–1965)
Republican exile (1939–1977)
Basque conflict (1959–2011)
Contemporary history
Transition to democracy (1975–1978)
Current constitution (1978)
1981 coup d'état attempt
Madrid train bombings (2004)
2008–2014 financial crisis
2017 Barcelona attacks
Catalan declaration of independence (2017)
COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2022)
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Prehistory: Quaternary period or Lower Paleolithic – First archaeological signs of human occupation
Roman period: mansion or staging-post (Miacum) established
5th century AD – archaeological remains reported in 2007 indicate Visigoth occupation
9th century – Muhammad I of Córdoba ordered the construction of an Alcazar
1085 – Alfonso VI of León and Castile takes the city in the Reconquista.[1]
1339 – Treaty of Madrid secures collaboration between Aragon and Castile
1499 –
Cardinal Cisneros founded the Complutense University.
Fernando de Rojas publishes La Celestina in Madrid
^Stephen Rose (2005). "Chronology". In Tim Carter and John Butt (ed.). Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79273-8.
^ abcdeDavid H. Stam, ed. (2001). International Dictionary of Library Histories. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. ISBN 1579582443.
^Mark Kurlansky (1999), The Basque History of the World, Walker & Company, ISBN 9780802713490
^United States. Commission to the Madrid exposition, 1892 (1895), Report of the United States commission to the Columbian historical exposition at Madrid, 1892-93, Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Office, OL 23368503M{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ abBBC News. "Timeline". Spain Profile. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
^Museo del Traje. Centro de Investigación del Patrimonio Etnológico. "Historia" (in Spanish). Madrid: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. Retrieved August 11, 2012.
^Angel Smith (2009). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Spain (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6267-8.
Thomas Nugent (1749), "Madrid", The Grand Tour, vol. 4, London: S. Birt, hdl:2027/mdp.39015030762580
Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Madrid", New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven, Connecticut: S. Converse
David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Madrid". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
"Madrid", Cabinet Cyclopædia, vol. VII: Cities and Principal Towns of the World, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1830, OCLC 2665202
Arthur de Capell Brooke (1831), "Madrid", Sketches in Spain and Morocco, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, OCLC 13783280
Richard Ford (1855), "Madrid", A Handbook for Travellers in Spain (3rd ed.), London: John Murray, OCLC 2145740
Samuel Sullivan Cox (1870), "Madrid", Search for Winter Sunbeams in the Riviera, Corsica, Algiers and Spain, New York: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 1022285
John Lomas, ed. (1889), "Madrid", O'Shea's Guide to Spain and Portugal (8th ed.), Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black
Published in the 20th century
"Madrid", Spain and Portugal: Handbook for Travellers (3rd ed.), Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1908, OCLC 1581249
Albert Frederick Calvert (1909), Madrid, London: J. Lane, OCLC 1598573, OL 7014970M
Herbermann, Charles George (1910). "Madrid-Alcala". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Nathaniel Newnham Davis (1911), "Madrid", Gourmet's Guide to Europe (3rd ed.), London: Grant Richards
Francis Whiting Halsey, ed. (1914). "Madrid". Spain and Portugal. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors. Vol. 9. Funk & Wagnalls Company. hdl:2027/nyp.33433006214559 – via Hathi Trust.
Beatrice Erskine (1922), Madrid: Past and Present, London: John Lane, OL 7028442M
Trudy Ring, ed. (1996). "Madrid". Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Vol. 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. OCLC 31045650.
Michael Ugarte (1996), Madrid 1900, USA: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN 0271015594
Published in the 21st century
J. Maldonado (2005). "Madrid". In Anton Kreukels; et al. (eds.). Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning: Comparative Case Studies of European City-Regions. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-49606-8.
David Gilmour (2012). "Madrid". Cities of Spain. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4481-3833-3.
in other languages
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"Madrid". Castilla la Nueva. Recuerdos y bellezas de España [es] (in Spanish). Vol. 1. 1853. hdl:2027/ucm.5325879622.
Eusebio Blasco (1873), Madrid por dentro y por fuera: Guia de forasteros incautos [Madrid inside and out: stranger's guide] (in Spanish), Julian Peña, OCLC 34689580, OL 23446308M
Madame d'Aulnoy (1874), Mme B. Carey (ed.), La cour et la ville de Madrid vers la fin du XVIIe siècle [The court and the city of Madrid in the late seventeenth century] (in French), Paris: E. Plon et cie, OL 24403114M
Timoteo Domingo Palacio, ed. (1888), Documentos del Archivo General de la villa de Madrid [Documents from the Archives of the City of Madrid] (in Spanish), Madrid: Impr. y Lit. Municipal v.4
"Madrid". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1908.