History of Spain
by Tamás Ádám
Prehistory
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Inhabited from the Old Stone Age
Paintings in the Altamira cave
Discovered by Marcellino de Sautola in 1879
Ancient times
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Target of conquests
800 BC Iberians fused with Celts
10th century BC Phoenicians founded Malága, Cádiz
7th century BC Greeks founded trading colonies
Carthaginians briefly took control of much of the
Mediterranean coast
3rd century BC Romans defeated Carthaginians and
Hispania was divided into two provinces: Hispania
Citerior and Hispania Ulterior
Malága
Seneca
Hadrianus
Middle Ages
Gothic Kingdom
 409. Germanic tribes attacked Hispania
 419. Visigothic Kingdom
 Until 711 Hispania was under visigothic rule, last
king was Roderik
 711-718. Iberian Peninsula was conquered by
Muslim armies
The Reconquista
 At the end of the 13th century the two strongest
kingdoms were Castile and Aragon
 In 1469 the crowns united by the marriage of
Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon
 Spanish Inquisition
Ferdinand II and Isabella I
Inquisition
Modern Age
The Spanish Golden Age
 1492 voyages of Christopher Columbus
 Colonies in the New World
 One of the biggest nation
 Wage war against England, France and Netherland
Spanish colonization
 1519 Hernán Cortés - aztec
 1523. Pedro de Alvarando - maya
 1531. Francisco Pizarro - Inca Empire
The ruins of Palenque
A view of Machu Picchu,
"the Lost City of the Incas".
Christopher Columbus
The Decline of the Spanish Empire
 1808 Napoleon’s campaign
 1814 the return of King Ferdinand VII
 1898 Spanish–American War, the fall of the
Spanish Empire
 1923-1930. period of authoritarian rule under
General Miguel Primo de Rivera
 1931 establishment of the Second Spanish
Republic
Ferdinand VII
Miguel Primo de Rivera
20th century
The Spanish Civil War and Franco’s regime
 1936 republican police killed José Calvo Sotelo
 1936-39 Spanish Civil War
Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco
and supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy
 Republican side was supported by the Soviet Union,
Mexico and International Brigades
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Francisco Franco
Juan Carlos I (2003)
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1939 Nationalist forces won
After World War II, Spain was politically and economically
isolated
From 1950 economic development
1975 Franco’s death, Juan Carlos assumed the position of
King of Spain and head of state
1978 new Spanish Constitution and the arrival of democracy
On 30 May 1982 Spain joined the NATO
1986 Spain joined the European Union
1996 Partido Popular, led by José María Aznar
Spanish Socialist Workers Party, led by José Luis Rodríguez
Zapatero
José María Aznar
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Thank you for your attention!