Barcelona History
27BC-AD14 Roman occupation of Barcino (Barcelona)
3rd C Barcino replaces Tarraco (Tarragona) as the most important Roman outpost in the Hispanic Citerior
415 Occupation by the Visigoths who rename the city Barcinona
8th C Moors conquer the city
9th C Franks conquer the city
Late 9th C Barcelona is ruled by Count Wilfred the Hairy, who establishes hereditary succession and unifies the county of Barcelona with other Carolingian territories
988 Count Borrell II achieves independence for the county of Barcelona
1000-1200 Barcelona becomes one of the most important Mediterranean ports
13th C Construction of Cathedral de la Seu begins
14th C Barcelona conquers foreign ports. War between Barcelona and Genoa
1327 Death of Jaume II
1336-1387 Reign of Pere III. Building boom in the city
1391 Pogrom – massacre of Barcelona’s Jewish community
1479-1516 Influence shifts to Castile
1640 Catalan revolt against Spanish monarchy begins in Barcelona; Catalonia allied to Louis XIII of France
1652 Siege of Barcelona by Don Juan José of Austria ends the Catalan rebellion
1680 War against France
1690 War against France
1705-1714 War of Independence against Spain; alliance with England and Genoa
11 Sep 1714 Philip V of Spain conquers Catalonia and abolishes the region’s constitution
18th C Beginning of cotton trade with the Americas and the start of the textile industry
18th C Napoleonic Wars
1821 Yellow fever epidemic
1848 First Spanish railway is constructed between Barcelona and Mataró
1868 Spanish revolution – Bourbons removed from power
1888 World Exhibition held in Barcelona
1901 and 1902 General strikes in the city
1909 Riots in the city; buildings destroyed by anarchists
1931 Left-wing coalition forcibly exiles King Alfonso XIII
1936 Beginning of Spanish Civil War
1960 Massive influx of workers from the impoverished countryside
1977 Catalonia recovers some self-government under the Estatut de Autonomia
1992 Olympic Games held in Barcelona
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