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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; 1500 – Printing press in operation. [2] 1505 – San Jerónimo el Real built. 1526 – Treaty of Madrid signed. 1537 – Casa de Cisneros built.
The siege of Madrid was a two-and-a-half-year siege of the Republican-controlled Spanish capital city of Madrid by the Nationalist armies, under General Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The city, besieged from October 1936, fell to the Nationalist armies on 28 March 1939.
Euzko Gudarostea besieged the town of Villarreal. Although Nationalist forces repelled their offensive, they secured some land in the nearby mountains. [66] Inconclusive Siege of Madrid: November 8, 1936 – March 28, 1939 Nationalist forces besieged the city of Madrid. After a few years of fighting the city fell to the rebels. [67] [68 ...
Ruins of Madrid's Muslim wall, built in the 9th century. The primitive urban nucleus of Madrid (Majriṭ) was founded in the late 9th century (from 852 to 886) as a citadel erected on behalf of Muhammad I, the Cordobese emir, on the relatively steep left bank of the Manzanares. [1]
This is a timeline of Spanish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Spain and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Spain .
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Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and the American President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Madrid in 1959.. The Pact of Madrid, signed on 23 September 1953 by Francoist Spain and the United States, was a significant effort to break the international isolation of Spain after World War II, together with the Concordat of 1953.
On 7 March, the royal palace in Madrid was surrounded by soldiers under the command of General Francisco Ballesteros, and three days later, on 10 March, the besieged Ferdinand VII, now a virtual prisoner, agreed to restore the Constitution. [75] Riego's Revolt had two significant effects on the war in the Americas.