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<div style="font-size: 270%"> Historical Timeline for Canary Islands- A chronology of key events</div>
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==History==
The conquest of the Canary Islands was the process by which this archipelago, inhabited by aboriginal peoples, was incorporated by military occupation to the Crown of Castile throughout the 15th century.


Two stages can be distinguished in this process: the stately conquest, carried out by the nobility in exchange for a vassalage pact, and the royal conquest, carried out directly by the Crown during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs.


The islands are known from antiquity, when they were inhabited by the Canarian Aborigines. From the 16th century on, Europeans became interested in the archipelago again, the conquest of which began in 1402 (with the expedition of the Normans Jean de Bethencourt and Gadifer de la Salle). A second stage of the conquest, the conquest of realengo, was initiated by the Crown of Castile in 1477.


After the Spanish conquest, human and cultural miscegenation gave rise to modern Canarian society. The beginning of the 18th century is characterized by a series of pirate attacks, which did not invade any island.


Currently the Canary Islands are an Autonomous Community of Spain, divided into two provinces, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.


{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Event
|-
|500 a.C.
|Arrival of the first settlers from North Africa.
|-
|25 a.C.
|Euforbio, a scholar at the head of the expedition of Juba II, king of  Mauritania, gives an account of the existence of Tenerife, which he calls  Nivaria.
|-
|1312
|First documented European trip to the Canary Islands, starring Lancelotto  Mallocello.
|-
|1392
|According to tradition, some Guanche shepherds find the Virgin of  Candelaria on the coast of the Güimar valley, 104 years before the conquest  of Tenerife.
|-
|1434
|Pope Eugene IV establishes a bull in which he expresses the absolute  prohibition of the slave trade with natives of the Canary Islands.
|-
|1458
|The Franciscan Fray Alonso de Bolaños created the first nucleus of  missionary activity in Güimar.
|-
|1464
|Diego de Herrera, lord of the Canary Islands, establishes agreements with  the Guanches and draws up a certificate of possession.
|-
|1477
|Tenerife acquires the status of a royal island when the Crown of Castile  acquires the rights, upon payment to the family of Hernán Peraza.
|-
|1492
|Francisco Maldonado, governor of Gran Canaria, tries unsuccessfully to  conquer Tenerife.
|-
|1494
|The advance Alonso Fernández de Lugo begins the conquest; he recorded a  major defeat at Acentejo. The city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is founded.
|-
|1495
|Second attempt by Fernández de Lugo. The Castilians win in La Laguna and,  a month later, in Acentejo.
|-
|1496
|Alonso Fernández de Lugo completes the conquest of Tenerife.
|-
|1501
|The advance appears before the Royal Council in relation to the demands  made by Guanche slaves who allege that, despite belonging to the peace groups  and being of Christian confession, they are, on a regular basis, sold as  slaves, mistreated and abused.
|-
|1502
|The advance establishes that the owners of lands with waters are obliged  to put them under cultivation by planting sugar cane.
|-
|1511
|The release of the captive Guanches is ordered.
|-
|1519
|Fernando de Magallanes leaves Tenerife on the important journey that  allows him to discover the strait that bears his name.
|-
|1536
|Pedro Fernández de Lugo, second advance of the Canary Islands, leaves  with 1,500 men to conquer South America. He founded the city of Tenerife, on  the banks of the La Magdalena river (Colombia).
|-
|1657
|Santa Cruz records the attack of the English admiral Robert Blake, who  tried to take over the cargo of the New Spain fleet. He was repulsed by the  Island's troops.
|-
|1666
|In Garachico the riot known as the wine spill occurs, which ends the  English monopoly of the trade in this product.
|-
|1704
|Eruptions of the Siete Fuentes, Fasnia and Arafo volcanoes.
|-
|1705
|Eruptions of the Siete Fuentes, Fasnia and Arafo volcanoes.
|-
|1706
|The Trevejo volcano erupts in Garachico. The eruption lasted 40 days and  buried the port, part of the town and the cultivation areas. Rear Admiral  John Jennings, with a squad of 13 ships, tries unsuccessfully to seize the  port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
|-
|1726
|The 20 island families that founded Montevideo (Uruguay) depart from  Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
|-
|1730
|The 20 families that the following year will found San Antonio (Texas)  leave Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
|-
|1751
|The first printing press in the Canary Islands begins to operate in Santa  Cruz de Tenerife.
|-
|1778
|Santa Cruz de Tenerife says goodbye to the first canaries who move to  Louisiana. Among the towns they founded, San Bernardo stands out.
|-
|1792
|The Chamber of Castilla publishes the royal decree by which Carlos IV  orders the creation of a Literary University in La Laguna. Before, in 1744,  the Ecclesiastical University of San Agustín had been created, as a  transformation of a center for higher studies for Augustinian religious,  established in the same city in 1701.
|-
|1797
|General Gutiérrez rejects the attack by the Royal Navy, led by Rear  Admiral Horacio Nelson.
|-
|1798
|Eruption on the western slope of the Pico Viejo volcano.
|-
|1819
|King Fernando VII confirms the creation of the bishopric of Tenerife,  based in La Laguna.
|-
|1821
|The Cortes Generales grant Santa Cruz de Tenerife the title of capital of  the province of the Canary Islands, a rank that it will maintain until 1927.
|-
|1852
|The Islands begin to exercise their status as free ports.
|-
|1853
|The royal order authorizing freedom of emigration is published; Thus  begins the legal exodus of the Canaries to America.
|-
|1883
|Santa Cruz receives the first telegram to reach the Canary Islands on  December 6. The cable was broadcast in Cádiz. 1893 The Italian ship El Remo  introduces a new epidemic of morbid cholera in Tenerife, the fourth to be  recorded in the 19th century, and which on that occasion caused hundreds of  deaths.
|-
|1906
|King Alfonso XIII, accompanied by several ministers, visits the  Archipelago. His first stopover was Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
|-
|1909
|Chinyero volcano erupts, the last eruption recorded in Tenerife. The lava  flowed for ten days.
|-
|1912
|The Island Councils Law enters into force. Eduardo Domínguez, president  of the Tenerife corporation.
|-
|1927
|The Military Directory of Primo de Rivera agrees the provincial division  of the Canary region, with which Santa Cruz de Tenerife loses its capital.
|-
|1935
|The capital of Tenerife hosts the II Universal Exposition of Surrealism.  André Bretón signs the manifesto of this cultural movement, officially  declaring Tenerife a surrealist island.
|-
|1936
|The newly appointed captain general of the Canary Islands, Francisco  Franco, who had arrived in Tenerife in March, revolted in July against the  Government of the Republic, unleashing the Civil War.
|-
|1941
|The Los Rodeos (La Laguna) airport is inaugurated, which maintains its  exclusive character in the Island's area communication until the Reina Sofía  de Tenerife South airport begins its activity in 1978.
|-
|1946
|The activities of the Canary Islands Economic Command, an organization  that emerged in 1941 with the intention of preventing the isolation of the  Archipelago from the eventual entry of Spain into World War II, ceased.
|-
|1948
|The Galician sailboat Emilio transfers 51 Canarian passengers to  Venezuela, who embark without authorization in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.  Clandestine emigration will continue until the 1960s; In this way, some 2,000  people from Tenerife leave their land.
|-
|1950
|The Canal del Sur de Tenerife comes into service, an important hydraulic  engineering work that made it possible to transform large areas into  irrigation.
|-
|1954
|The Teide National Park is created by decree, which is among the first  three to achieve this recognition within the nine parks of the national  network, of which four are in the Canary Islands.
|-
|1964
|The Government approves the Canary Islands Economic Development Plan,  Laureano López Rodó will be its commissioner.
|-
|1972
|The Canary Islands Economic and Fiscal Regime Law (REF) is hereby  established, by which the Inter-provincial Board of Insular Taxes is created.
|-
|1974
|Santa Cruz celebrates the I International Exhibition of Sculptures in the  Street. The city transforms its appearance by incorporating an important  heritage into works of art.
|-
|1978
|The Junta de Canarias, a pre-autonomous body, is constituted in Las  Cañadas del Teide. In 1873 and 1936 two draft statutes had been drawn up,  aborted by the Republican Courts themselves, the first, and by the coup, the  second.
|-
|1978
|The Reina Sofía-Tenerife South airport begins its activity.
|-
|1982
|The Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands is approved, which  establishes that the Archipelago will have two capitals, Santa Cruz de  Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
|-
|1983
|The Parliament of the Canary Islands is established, based in Santa Cruz  de Tenerife.
|-
|1985
|The Kings of Spain inaugurate the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias  (IAC) and the Teide observatory. Three other monarchs and two European heads  of state attend.
|-
|1990
|The Parliament of the Canary Islands requests full integration into the  European Community.
|-
|1992
|The EC approves the POSEICAN (Program of Specific Options for the  Remoteness and Insularity of the Canary Islands), which addresses the  differential fact of the islands and establishes measures to achieve full  development. The Archaeological Museum of Tenerife announces the finding of a  stone with Tifinagh-Zanata characters, which according to those responsible  for the center confirms the theories of the settlement of the Canary Islands  by peoples of the northern Atlas (Africa).
|-
|1994
|Santa Cruz de Tenerife celebrates with an extensive program of activities  the V centenary of its foundation.
|-
|1996
|The construction of the International Center for Fairs and Congresses,  designed by Santiago Calatrava, ends in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
|-
|2002
|Pedro de Betancur (Hermano Pedro) (Vilaflor, 1626-Guatemala, 1667) was  canonized on July 30, 2002 by Pope John Paul II, being the first Canarian and  Guatemalan saint.
|-
|2003
|Inauguration in September of this year of the Tenerife Auditorium, the  work of Santiago Calatrava.
|-
|2007
|On June 1, the Tenerife Tram enters service, linking the cities of Santa  Cruz de Tenerife and La Laguna.
|}

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==Sources==
* https://www.isladetenerifevivela.com/2017/08/historia-cronologica-de-las-islas.html

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