Timeline of Valencia

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Valencia, Spain.

Prior to 20th century

 * 137 BCE – Foundation of Valentia Edetanorum es by the Romans.
 * 413 – Taken by the Visigoths.
 * 714 – Taken by Moors.
 * 1010 CE – City becomes capital of the Taifa of Valencia.
 * 1021 – Independent Moorish kingdom of Valencia was established
 * 1064 CE – Al-Mamun of Toledo in power.
 * 1094 – Castilian Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar in power.
 * 1109 – Almoravid Masdali in power.
 * 1238 – City becomes capital of the Aragonese Kingdom of Valencia.
 * 1261 – Furs of Valencia (law) promulgated.
 * 1262 – Valencia Cathedral construction begins.
 * 1283 – Consulate of the Sea established.
 * 1349 – Torres de Serranos (gate) built.
 * 1380 – Public clock installed (approximate date).
 * 1444 – Torres de Cuarto es (gate) built.
 * 1459 – Valencia Cathedral lengthened in its original Gothic style.
 * 1473 – Printing press in use.
 * 1474 – "Poetical contest" held.
 * 1483 – Llotja de la Seda construction begins.
 * 1499 – University of Valencia founded.
 * 1568 – Juan de Ribera becomes Archbishop of Valencia.
 * 1707 – Bourbons in power.
 * 1776 – established.
 * 1812 – 9 January: City taken by French forces es and the library robbed of its 60,000 volumes.
 * 1840 – Domingo Mascarós es becomes mayor.
 * 1858 – Plaza de Toros de Valencia opens.
 * 1887 – Population: 170,763.
 * 1897 – Population: 204,768.

20th century

 * 1913 – Museu de Belles Arts de València established.
 * 1915 – Teatro Olympia es opens.
 * 1917 – Estació del Nord (railway station) opens.
 * 1930 – Population: 320,195.
 * 1933
 * December: "Anarchist uprising es."
 * Valencia Airport built.
 * 1937 – The city becomes the capital of the Republican controlled Spain.
 * 1940 – Population: 450,756.
 * 1946 – Cine Majestic (cinema) opens.
 * 1957 – October: 1957 Valencia flood.
 * 1958 – Adolfo Rincón de Arellano Garcia becomes mayor.
 * 1970 – Population: 653,690.
 * 1984 – Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant commissioned in region of city of Valencia.
 * 1988 – Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (railway) begins operating.
 * 1989 – Institut Valencià d'Art Modern opens.
 * 1991 – Rita Barberá Nolla becomes mayor.
 * 1995
 * Metrovalencia in operation.
 * Eduardo Zaplana becomes president of the regional Generalitat Valenciana government.

21st century

 * 2006 – 3 July: Valencia Metro derailment (43 dead)
 * 2013 – Population: 792,303.
 * 2015 – Valencia City Council election, 2015 held; Joan Ribó elected mayor.