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Timeline of Barcelona

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

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Prior 19th century

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  • 218 BCE – Barcino established by Hamilcar Barca a Carthaginian general and statesman.{{sfn|Phillips|1995}}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 133 BCE – Romans in power.{{sfn|Phillips|1995}}
  • 343 CE – Bishopric established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 414 – Visigoth Ataulphus headquartered in Barcelona.
  • 713 – Arabs in power.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 801 – Siege of Barcelona, Franks in power;{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} County of Barcelona established.
  • 874 – The counts of Barcelona ruled as independent monarchs.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 897 – Guifré el Pilós, Count of Barcelona, dies with his sons inheriting his possessions instead of an appointment of the Frank's king, making the end of Franks effective rule
  • 1164 – Dynastic union of Barcelona with Aragon (composite monarchy).{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
  • 1243 – Arsenals built (approximate date).{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1258 – Consolat de Mar (maritime legal code) issued.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}{{citation |author=Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. |chapter= Merchant Guilds |title= Encyclopedia of World Trade |editor= Cynthia Clark Northrup |publisher= Routledge |year= 2013 |orig-year=2005 |isbn=9780765682680 }}
  • 1298 – Barcelona Cathedral construction begins.{{sfn|Phillips|1995}}
  • 1359 – June: Battle of Barcelona (1359).
  • 1378 – Casa Consistorial built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1383 – Llotja del Mar (exchange) built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1391 – Santa Maria del Pi church built.
  • 1392 – Public clock installed (approximate date).{{cite book|author= Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum|author-link= :de:Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum|title=History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders |year= 1996|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-15510-4 |chapter=From Prestige Object to Urban Accessory |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=9Za4jdBEVB4C&pg=PA129 }}
  • 1400 – Medical college established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1401
  • Taula de canvi de Barcelona (public bank) established.{{cite web |url= http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/amser/chrono.html |title=Comparative Chronology of Money |author1= Glyn Davies |author-link= Glyn Davies (economist) |author2= Roy Davies |year=2002 |via=University of Exeter }}
  • General hospital active.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1448 – Barcelona Cathedral construction completed.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1450 – University of Barcelona founded.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1473 – Printing press in use.{{cite book|author=F. J. Norton |title=Printing in Spain 1501-1520|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vOY-btAmNokC&pg=PA158 |year= 1966 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-13118-6}}
  • 1474 – Moll de la Santa Creu (wharf) construction begins.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1493 – Columbus' published description of his trans-Atlantic trip becomes a "bestseller" in Barcelona.{{cite book |title=Famous First Facts |title-link=Famous First Facts |year=2000 |publisher= H.W. Wilson Co. |editor=Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell |isbn= 0824209583 }}
  • 1529 – Charles V and Clement VII sign treaty in Barcelona.{{sfn|Woodward|1872}}
  • 1609 – Bank of Barcelona established.
  • 1640 – Reapers' War: Corpus de Sang events.
  • 1641 – January: Battle of Montjuïc.
  • 1651 – July: Siege of Barcelona begins.
  • 1697 – August: Siege of Barcelona (1697).
  • 1705 – September–October: Siege of Barcelona (1705).
  • 1706 – April: Siege of Barcelona (1706).{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
  • 1708 – Premiere of Caldara's opera {{Interlanguage link multi|Il più bel nome|ca}}.(ca)
  • 1713 – July: Siege of Barcelona (1713–14) begins.
  • 1715 – Citadel built to suppress Catalan revolts (Ciutadella de Barcelona).{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1792 – Custom house built.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}

19th century

  • 1809 – French in power.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1831 - Bonaplata Factory, El Vapor founded
  • 1833 – City becomes capital of newly created Province of Barcelona.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1834 – {{Interlanguage link multi|Sociedad Económica Barcelonesa de Amigos del País|es}} established.{{cite book |title=Diccionario de bibliografía agronómica |editor=Braulio Antón Ramírez |location=Madrid |publisher=Manuel Rivadeneyra |year=1865 |chapter=Sociedades economicas del reino |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/ucm.5309027638?urlappend=%3Bseq=412|via=HathiTrust |language=es |pages= 390–409 |hdl=2027/ucm.5309027638?urlappend=%3Bseq=412 }}
  • 1842 – Bombardment of Barcelona (1842).{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
  • 1847
  • Gran Teatre del Liceu opens.
  • Barcelona City Hall expanded.{{sfn|Phillips|1995}}
  • 1848
  • Mataró-Barcelona railway begins operating.{{cite web |url=http://www.bcn.cat/historia/pag/capitols_en.htm |title=History of Barcelona |publisher=Barcelona City Council |access-date=30 November 2014 }}
  • Institut Industrial de Catalunya founded.
  • {{Interlanguage link multi|Municipal Archives of Barcelona|ca|3=Arxiu Municipal de Barcelona}} moves into City Hall.
  • 1849 - La España Industrial el Vapor Nou begins operation in Sants
  • 1854
  • City walls dismantled (approximate date).{{sfn|Cordua|2010}}
  • Burning of the Monasteries
  • The Luddite Conflict of the selfactinas
  • 1855 - first general strike
  • 1857 – Population: 183,787.
  • 1859 – Floral Games begin.{{sfn|Woodward|1872}}
  • 1869 – 25 September: "Republican insurrection."{{sfn|Woodward|1872}}
  • 1877 – Parc de la Ciutadella established from the old citadel.
  • 1881
  • La Vanguardia newspaper begins publication.
  • Premiere of {{Interlanguage link multi|Joan Goula|ca|3=Joan Goula i Soley}}'s Catalan-language opera A la voreta del mar.{{cite book|author1= John Warrack|author-link= John Warrack|author2= Ewan West |title= Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera|year= 1996 |edition=3rd |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-280028-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxforddic00warr |url-access= registration |chapter=Barcelona }}
  • 1882 – Gaudi's Sagrada Família cathedral construction begins.
  • 1887 – Population: 272,481.{{sfn|Haydn|1910}}
  • 1888 – 1888 Barcelona Universal Exposition held;{{sfn|Phillips|1995}} Arc de Triomf and Castle of the Three Dragons built.
  • 1891 – Orfeó Català chorus formed.
  • 1897
  • Eixample district laid out.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}
  • Els Quatre Gats cafe in business.{{cite web |url= http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=10®ion=eus#/Key-Events |title= Southern Europe, 1800–1900 A.D.: Key Events |work= Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |location=New York |access-date=30 November 2014 }}
  • 1899 – Futbol Club Barcelona formed.
  • 1900
  • Picasso's first solo art exhibit held.{{cite web |publisher=Barcelona City Council |author=Museu Picasso of Barcelona |url=http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/picasso/crono-flash.html |title=Pablo Picasso's Timeline |access-date=30 November 2014 }}
  • Population: 533,000.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}

20th century

21st century

See also

Other cities in the autonomous community of Catalonia:(ca)

References

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This article incorporates information from the Catalan Wikipedia and Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

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;Published in the 19th century

  • {{Citation |publisher = Kirk and Mercein |location = New-York |title = Travels in England, France, Spain, and the Barbary States |author = M.M. Noah |author-link = Mordecai Manuel Noah |date = 1819 |oclc = 1338665 |chapter=(Barcelona) |hdl = 2027/nyp.33433081557641?urlappend=%3Bseq=199 |chapter-url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081557641?urlappend=%3Bseq=199 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = J.Duncan |location = London |title = The Modern Traveller |chapter-url =https://archive.org/stream/moderntraveller18condiala#page/n85/mode/2up |chapter=Barcelona |author = Josiah Conder |author-link=Josiah Conder (editor and author) |date =1830 }}
  • {{Cite book |publisher =William Blackwood |date = 1830 |location = Edinburgh |title = Edinburgh Encyclopædia |title-link = Edinburgh Encyclopædia |editor=David Brewster |chapter=Barcelona |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/edinburghencyclo03edinuoft#page/275/mode/1up }}
  • {{cite book

|author1= Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward

|author-link= Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward

|author2=William Leist Readwin Cates

|author2-link=William Leist Readwin Cates

|title=Encyclopedia of Chronology

|year=1872

|publisher=Longmans, Green and Company |chapter=Barcelona |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ZeI0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA156

| ref = {{harvid|Woodward|1872}}

}}

  • {{Citation

|title = A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation

|author=John Ramsay McCulloch

|author-link=John Ramsay McCulloch

|editor=Hugh G. Reid

|date = 1880 |publisher = Longmans, Green, and Co. |location=London

|chapter= Barcelona

|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryprac00mccu#page/136/mode/2up

}}

;Published in the 20th century

  • {{Citation |publisher = Karl Baedeker |location = Leipsic |title = Spain and Portugal |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/spainportugalhan00karlrich#page/n403/mode/2up |chapter=Barcelona |date = 1908 |oclc = 1581249 |edition=3rd }}
  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Barcelona (Spanish city) |volume= 3 | pages = 391–393 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
  • {{Citation

|publisher = Ward, Lock & Co. |location = London |title = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |author = Benjamin Vincent |title-link = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |edition = 25th

|date = 1910

|chapter=Barcelona |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/haydnsdictionary00hayd#page/132/mode/1up

| ref = {{harvid|Haydn|1910}}

}}

  • {{Citation |publisher = Grant Richards |location = London |author = Nathaniel Newnham Davis |title = The Gourmet's Guide to Europe |date = 1911 |edition=3rd |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/gourmetsguidetoe00daviuoft#page/276/mode/2up |chapter=Barcelona }}
  • {{cite book |title=Satchel Guide to Spain and Portugal |title-link=Satchel Guide |year=1930 |location=Boston |publisher= Houghton Mifflin |chapter=Barcelona |hdl=2027/mdp.39015024367917?urlappend=%3Bseq=175 |chapter-url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015024367917?urlappend=%3Bseq=175 }}
  • {{cite book |title=Homage to Catalonia |author=George Orwell |author-link=George Orwell |title-link=Homage to Catalonia |year=1938 }}
  • {{cite book|author=Robert Hughes|author-link=Robert Hughes (critic)|title=Barcelona|year=1992}}
  • {{cite book|author= Felipe Fernández-Armesto |title=Barcelona: A Thousand Years of the City's Past |year=1992|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-285273-1}}
  • {{cite book

|editor=Trudy Ring |title=Southern Europe |series=International Dictionary of Historic Places |volume=3

|year= 1995

|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |isbn=1884964028 |chapter=Barcelona |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fYH7AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA75 |author=Michael D. Phillips

| ref = {{harvid|Phillips|1995}}

}}

;Published in the 21st century

  • {{cite web |title=Barcelona |work=Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003 |url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/a-z.htm |publisher=United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London |year=2003 }}
  • {{cite book|editor=Anton Kreukels|title=Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning: Comparative Case Studies of European City-Regions |year= 2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-49606-8 |chapter=Barcelona |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=R3mBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA337 |display-editors=etal}}
  • {{cite book|author=Joan Ramon Resina|title=Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity: Rise and Decline of an Urban Image |year=2008|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-5832-1}}
  • {{cite book

|editor=Christian Hermansen Cordua|title=Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City

|year=2010

|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|isbn=978-0-7546-7948-6 |chapter=The eixample (ensanche) of Barcelona (1859 and after) |author= Albert Serratosa |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=_w5-AxJTf0EC&pg=PA211

| ref = {{harvid|Cordua|2010}}

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Aránzazu Ascunce Arenas

|title=Barcelona and Madrid: Social Networks of the Avant-Garde

|year=2012

|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-1-61148-424-3 |chapter=Chronology |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ldgvbBD82ssC&pg=PR13

| ref = {{harvid|Arenas|2012}}

}}

  • {{cite book|author= David Gilmour |title=Cities of Spain |year= 2012|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1-4481-3833-3 |chapter=Barcelona }}
  • {{cite book

|author=Montserrat Miller

|title=Feeding Barcelona, 1714-1975: Public Market Halls, Social Networks, and Consumer Culture

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BnWOAwAAQBAJ

|year= 2015

|publisher=Louisiana State University Press |location=USA|isbn=978-0-8071-5647-6

| ref = {{harvid|Miller|2015}}

}}

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External links

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  • [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/spain_city_plans/ Map of Barcelona], 1943
  • [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/spain.html Map of Barcelona], 1999
  • Europeana. [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=barcelona+spain&rows=96 Items related to Barcelona], various dates.
  • Digital Public Library of America. [http://dp.la/search?page_size=100&q=barcelona+spain&utf8=✓ Items related to Barcelona], various dates
  • {{cite web |url=http://bigtimebcn.300000kms.net/ |title=Big Time BCN |publisher= 300.000 km/s }} (map)

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