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The Visigoths a Germanic people established a kingdom in Spain after the decline of the Western Roman Empire. Ruling much of the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries. -
In 711 the Moors led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad invaded the Iberian Peninsula making a Muslim kingdom known as al-Andalus. Which was a cultural and economic center before facing Christian reconquest that was in 1492.
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Was a series of military and cultural campaigns waged by Christian kingdoms against the Muslim kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula. Starting around 718 and reaching its peak in 1492. -
El Cid captured the city of Valencia from its Muslim rulers. Establishing an independent principality on the Mediterranean coast of Iberia. -
Sancho III of Navarre left to his third son, Ramiro I, the small Pyrenean county of Aragon and established it as an independent kingdom. -
The Kingdom of Portugal was first established on the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula in 1139, during the Reconquista Being proclaimed the first king after defeating the Moors at the Battle of Ourique. -
They married on October 19, 1469, in the city of Valladolid. Isabella was 18 years old and Ferdinand a year younger. -
The Spanish Inquisition began in 1478, and for more than 300 years it pushed aggressively to repress what the monarchy saw as heresy. The Inquisition pursued its mandate in Spain, Portugal and across the Spanish colonies, including Mexico. -
The marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile in 1469. While not forming a single kingdom immediately set the stage for the unification of Spain under their joint rule, eventually leading to the Kingdom of Spain.