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c. 500BC Foundation by the Carthaginians under Amilcar Barca

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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