User:Alcides Pinto/Timeline of Spanish history (Barbarian Kingdoms)

This section of the timeline of Spanish history concerns events from the Barbarian settlements (409) to before the Moorish conquest (710).

5th Century

 * 409
 * General Gerontius mutiny after refusign the resignation of his command in Hispania and install his son Maximus in the throne. Beginning of a civil war.
 * The Germanic Suevi (Quadi and Marcomanni tribes), under king Hermeric, cross the Pyrenees accompanied by the Buri tribe and pass through the Basque country to the Roman province of Gallaecia.
 * The Germanic Vandals (Silingi and Hasdingi tribes) and the Sarmatian Alans cross the Pyrenees and enter in the Iberic Peninsula.
 * 411
 * Roman emperor Honorius divide most of Iberia sorte (by lot) between the barbarian peoples, who become foederati, permitting to settle under their own autonomous governance in exchange of warriors to the Roman armies.
 * The east of the province of Gallaecia fall to the Suevi, while the west of the province goes to the populous Hasdingi.
 * The Silingi receive land from the Romans in Hispania Baetica (South), while the Alans get lands in Lusitania (West) and the region around Carthago Nova (Cartagena).
 * Gerontius dies during the Battle of Arles, where he is defeated by Constantius. Maximus forfeit his claims and enter a monastery.
 * 418 - The Alan king Attaces is killed in battle against the Visigoths, and this branch of the Alans subsequently appeal to the Vandal king Gunderic to accept the Alan crown.
 * 419 - The Hasdingi Vandals attack the Suevi, but they resist with Roman aid, eventually expelling the Hasdingi from Gallaecia. King Gunderic joins the Silingi, becoming king of all Vandals.


 * 429
 * The Roman General Flavius Aëtius convinces Galla Placidia, mother of the boy emperor Valentinian III, that her General Bonifacius was plotting to kill her and her son to claim the throne for himself. At the same time Aëtius convinces Bonifacius that they were plotting to kill him. Thus, Bonifacius enlist the help of the Vandal King Genseric, promising land in North Africa.
 * Genseric cross the strait of Gibraltar with the entire tribe (including the Alans), leaving the Iberic lands to the Romans.
 * 430 - King Hermeric begin to attack the Hispano-Roman population of Gallaecia.
 * 432 - The Roman army commanded by Censorius, who came in help of the Roman Gallaecians, defeat the Suebi, forcing them to release the Gallaecian families they had taken captive.
 * 435 - King Hermeric ratify the peace with the Hispano-Roman local population.
 * 438 - King Hermeric abdicates in favor of his son Rechila.
 * 439 - King Rechila take Emerita Augusta (Mérida), capital of the Roman province of Lusitania.
 * 441 - King Rechila take Hispalis (Seville), capital of the Roman province of Baetica.
 * 448 - King Rechila dies leaving a state in expansion to his son Rechiar who tries to impose his Catholic faith on the Suevi population.
 * 449
 * February - King Rechiar attempt to conquest Vasconia.
 * Rechiar allies with Basilius, leader of one of the local peasant rebels group known as Bagaudae, and raid the Ebro valley, attacking Caesaraugusta (Zaragoza) and even entering Ilerda (Lérida). He takes many prisoners, but fails to take the region and thus complete the Suevic conquest of Spain.
 * 455
 * King Rechiar attacks the province of Tarraconensis, the only province of Spain still under Roman control, but did not conquer it.
 * Vandals conquer the Balearic Islands.
 * 456
 * The emperor Avitus calls the help of the Visigoths against the Suebi. Theodoric II invades Spain with an army of Goths, Franks, Burgundes under their kings Chilperic I and Gundioch, and perhaps even Romans.
 * October 5th: Theodoric defeat Rechiar in a battle at the Campus Paramus, twelve miles from Astorga on the Urbicus (Órbigo). Rechiar is wounded during the battle, but manage to escape.
 * October 28th: Braga, capital of the Suebi kingdom, fall and is brutally sacked by the Visigoths before moving on to conquer Andalusia.
 * December: King Rechiar is captured in Oporto and executed. The Suevic monarchy collapse and rapidly disintegrate into rival factions.
 * 464 - Remismund becomes king of a unified Suebi nation.
 * 466
 * Remismund requests an Arian missionary from the Visigothic court and receive Ajax, who converts the Suevic nobility and establishes an Arian church in the kingdom.
 * Theodoric II is murdered by his younger brother Euric, who succeedes him to the throne.
 * 470 - Euric conquers southern Gallaecia and Lusitania to the Suevi.
 * 472 - Euric captures Hispania Tarraconensis, the last bastion of Roman rule in Spain.
 * 475 - Euric (who unified the various quarreling factions of the Visigoths) forces the Roman government to grant the Visigothic kingdom full independence.

6th Century

 * 507 - Alaric II is killed in the battle of Vouillé, been succeeded by his illegitimate son, Gesalic, because his legitimate son Amalaric is still a child.
 * 511
 * Gesalic is driven from the throne by Ibbas and escapes to Africa. He attempts to get aid from the Vandals and the Ostrogoths, but fails. Eventually he launches an invasion of Iberia from Gallia Aquitania but is defeated by Ibbas's army and killed at the end of the year.
 * Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, acts as regent for Gesalic's half-brother, Amalaric, until Amalaric being old enough to take the throne.
 * Although Theodoric rules from Ravenna, the center of Visigothic rule shifts to Barcelona.
 * 531
 * Chrotilda, wife of Amalaric and sister of Childebert I, Frankish king of Paris, claims her Arian husband didn't respect her Catholic beliefs. Childebert goes down with an army and defeats the Gothic king. Amalaric retreats to Barcelona, where he is assassinated by his own troops.
 * The strongman Theudis, a former commander of Theodoric the Great, is elected king and transfers the capital from Narbonne to Barcelona.
 * 541 - Theudis confronts the Franks under Chlothar I and Childebert I, who had penetrated as far as Pamplona and Zaragoza, which they besiege for forty-nine days. After successfully defending it he drives them out of the country.


 * 548 - Theudis is assassinated by the pretender Theudigisel, who becomes king of the Visigoths.
 * 549 - Agila becomes king of the Visigoths.
 * 550
 * Chararic becomes King of the Suevi.
 * The citizens of Córdoba rebel against Arian rule and Agila is roundly defeated, his son killed, and the royal treasure lost. He himself retreats to Mérida.
 * 551 - A nobleman named Athanagild takes Seville and rules as king in opposition to Agila.
 * 552
 * Athanagild claims the Byzantine emperor Justinian for help against the king Agila.
 * In June or July the byzantine army lands in Spain, probably near Málaga, and joins with Athanagild to defeat Agila as he marches south from Mérida towards Seville in August or September.
 * Seville and the surrounding area are conquered by the Byzantines, beginning the formation of the province of Spania.
 * 554
 * Justinian's armies take Andalusia and Granada, leading to much rejoicing by the local people, who are mostly Hispano-Romans.
 * The supporters of Agila, in fear of the recent Byzantine successes, turn and assassinate him, raising Athanagild as sole king of the Goths in opposition to the Byzantines, who are now a direct threat to the kingdom.
 * 566 - Athanagild takes Seville to the Byzantines.
 * 567 - Leovigild is declared co-king with his brother Liuva I after a short period of anarchy which followed the death of King Athanagild, who was a brother of them both. Liuva, favored by the Visigoth nobles, comes to rule the Visigothic lands north of the Pyrenees, while Leovigild rules in Hispania.
 * 572 - Miro conducts an expedition against the Ruccones (Runcones) of Cantabria. This attack on a people within the Visigothic kingdom serves an excuse for Gothic reprisals against the Sueves.


 * 573
 * Liuva dies, Leovigild becomes sole ruler of the Visigothic kingdom.
 * Leovigild subdues the Suevi region of Sabaria.
 * 574 - Leovigild restores the province of Cantabria to his dominion.
 * 575 - Leovigild invades the Aregensian Mountains, bringing the region under his power.
 * 576 - Leovigild marches to the southern frontier of Galicia (the Douro river) and menaces the small kingdom, even founding the city of Villa Gothorum (modern Toro). Miro sues for peace, and obtains it for a short time.
 * 580 - Hermenegild revolts against his father Leovigild, proclaiming king in Seville, supported by the orthodox bishops.
 * 581 - Leovigild founds the city of Victoriacum (Vitoria-Gasteiz), in order to control the territory of Vasconia.
 * 582 - Leovigild takes the rebel Mérida, Itálica, Seville and Córdoba, banishing Hermenegild to Valencia.
 * 585
 * The deposition of the legitimate king Eboric gives Leovigild an excuse to invade the Suevic kingdom. Leovigild deprives the captured King Andeca of his rule, and brings the territory of the Suevi under his own power, making Galicia a province of the Visigothic kingdom.
 * Malaric rises in rebellion, claiming the Suevi throne, but is defeated by King Leovigild's generals and captured.
 * April 13: Hermenegild, son of the king Leovigild, is murdered by his agents.
 * 586 - April 21: Leovigild dies, being succeeded by his son Reccared.
 * 587
 * In January, Reccared renounces Arianism for Catholicism. Most Arian nobles and ecclesiastics follow his example, but there are Arian uprisings, notably in Septimania, his northernmost province, where the leader of opposition is the Arian bishop Athaloc. Reccared's army defeated the Arian insurgents and their Catholic allies with great slaughter.
 * The next Arian conspiracy brakes out in the west, Lusitania, headed by Sunna, the Arian bishop of Mérida, and count Segga. Claudius, Reccared's dux Lusitaniae, put down the rising, Sunna being banished to Mauritania and Segga retiring to Gallaecia.

7th Century

 * 603 - Witteric, commander of a Visigothic army against the Byzantines, uses his troops to strike at the king Liuva II, deposing him and have him condemned and executed.
 * 610 - A faction of Catholic nobles assassinate Witteric and proclaim Gundemar, duke of Narbonne, king of the Visigoths.
 * 619 - After a massive expedition against the Byzantines, Sisebut conquers Málaga.
 * 621 - After the death of Sisebut, his young son Reccared II succeed him, but his premature death allows his maternal half-uncle the strongman and general Suintila to accede to the throne.
 * 624 - The entire province of Spania is in Visigothic hands save the Balearic Islands.