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Iberian Timeline
BC / CE Number of Centuries From First Recorded Settlement Year Tribal Group Arrival Historical Events
21 1 2000BC Iberians Arrive in Iberia from south of Africa (Libya)
20 2 1900    
19 3 1800    
18 4 1700    
17 5 1600    
16 6 1500    
15 7 1400    
14 8 1300 Iberians  
13 9 1200    
12 10 1100    
11 11 1000    
10 12 970 Isreal Oldest Jewish traditions suggests that the first Jews arrived in Spain in one of King Solomon's fleets with Hiram's Phoenicians.
10 12 900 Celts An Aryan people from Western Europe arrive in Iberia
9 13 800BC    
8 14 700BC    
7 15 600BC Celts  
7 15 600BC Phoenicians / Greeks Arrive in Iberia from Lebanon / Greece
6 16 587 Isreal Jews arrive in Iberia from Isreal after the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezar
5 17 400    
4 18 300 Phoenicians / Greeks Arrive in Iberia
3 19 200 Carthage Arrive in Iberia from Lebanon / Hanibal The Great
3 19 238 Rome Rome Invades Iberia / Hispania
2 20 100    
1BC 21 19BC Rome Rome Controls Iberia
1CE 22 70CE Isreal Jerusalem destroyed by the Romans
2 23 100    
3 24 200    
4 25 300    
5 26 414 Visigoths One of the two principal branches of the Goths arrive in Iberia
6 27 500    
7 28 600    
8 29 700 Visigoths Control Iberia
8 29 711 Moors The Moors a mixture of Berbers and Arabs crossed into Spain from North Africa by the Straits of Gibraltar and occupied the peninsula - which they called al Andalus. They defeated the Visigoths.
9 30 800    
10 31 900    
11 32 1000    
12 33 1198   Rome Inquisition
13 34 1233   French Inquisition
13 34 1242   Talmud condemned & thousands of holy books burned
13 34 1255   Inquistion active Central and Western Europe
13 34 1288   First mass Inqusition burnings
14 35 1300    
15 36 1478   Inquisition Holy Office established in Spain
15 36 1481   Inquisition starts in Spain
15 36 1483   Torqemada becomes Inquisitor-General
15 36 1485   Toledo Inquisition
15 36 1486   Between 1486 and 1492 there are 25 Auto-de-fes
15 36 1492   Spain's Jewish expulsion
15 36 1492 Moors Last Moorish stronghold Granada defeated, Moorish expulsion
15 36 1492 Spanish Pure Bloods United Spain, Jewish expulsion
15 36 1492   Colombus discovers Americas
15 36 1495   Jews in Hispaniola (Santo Domingo & Haiti)
15 36 1495 Spanish New World Spanish Inquisition
16 37 1519 Spanish Cortes conquers Mexico
16 37 1599 Spanish Onate Expedition (Lucero de Godoys) to New Mexico
17 38 1680 Southwestern United States Native-Americans Pueblo Indian Rebellion Spaniards defeated in New Mexico and expelled
17 38 1692 Spanish de Vargas Expedition (Quintanas / de Riberas) for the reconquest of New Mexico
18 39 1700 Spanish New Mexico Spanish Period
19 40 1821 Mexicans Spain loses New Mexico, Mexicans claim it
19 40 1846 Anglo-Americans Mexico loses New Mexico, Americans claim it
20 41 1900 Americans Reach zenith as world power (only superpower)
21 42 2002 Americans Present day America represented by all tribes
 

Last Updated on 11/9/02
By Michael Steven Perez