{"slug": "kingdom-of-galicia", "label": "Kingdom of Galicia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Galicia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303421", "qid": "Q303421", "description": "historical state on the Iberian Peninsula (910–1126)", "entries": 31, "years": 29, "span": [463, 1188], "span_label": ["463 CE", "1188 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 16}, {"title": "Births", "count": 6}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}], "related": [{"slug": "kingdom-of-leon", "label": "Kingdom of León", "shared": 18}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 8}, {"slug": "suebi", "label": "Suebi", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-castile", "label": "Kingdom of Castile", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "leon-spain", "label": "León, Spain", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-asturias", "label": "Kingdom of Asturias", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "alfonso-vi-of-leon-and-castile", "label": "Alfonso VI of León and Castile", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-england", "label": "Kingdom of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "france-in-the-middle-ages", "label": "France in the Middle Ages", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palestine-region", "label": "Palestine (region)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "holy-land", "label": "Holy Land", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "levant", "label": "Levant", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 463, "year_label": "463 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Suebi live under a diarchy, and fight a civil war over the kingship in Galicia (Northern Spain).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367480401#Europe", "title": "463", "revid": 1367480401, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 464, "year_label": "464 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Suevic nation in Galicia (Northern Spain) is unified under King Remismund.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1288493894#Europe", "title": "464", "revid": 1288493894, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 465, "year_label": "465 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Remismund establishes a policy of friendship with the Visigoths, and promotes the conversion of the Suebi into Arianism in Galicia (Northern Spain).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739674#Europe", "title": "465", "revid": 1364739674, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 584, "year_label": "584 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Eboric is deposed by his mother (second husband Andeca) who becomes the new ruler of the Kingdom of Galicia (Northern Spain) and the Suevi.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754048#Europe", "title": "584", "revid": 1364754048, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 640, "year_label": "640 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Chintila dies of natural causes after a 3-year reign, in which he permitted the bishops wide authority in Hispania, Septimania and Galicia. He is succeeded by his son Tulga, who becomes ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364750340#Europe", "title": "640", "revid": 1364750340, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 750, "year_label": "750 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Alfonso I of Asturias establishes the Kingdom of Galicia, in roughly the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. The exact time this happened is contested.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358128937#Europe", "title": "750", "revid": 1358128937, "section": "Events › Europe"}}, {"year": 873, "year_label": "873 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Ordoño II, king of Galicia and León (d. 924)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267072669#Births", "title": "873", "revid": 1267072669, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 895, "year_label": "895 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Sancho Ordóñez, king of Galicia (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346093921#Births", "title": "895", "revid": 1346093921, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 910, "year_label": "910 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Summer – King Alfonso III of Asturias is forced to abdicate the throne and partitions the kingdom among his three sons. The eldest son, García I, becomes king of León. The second son, Ordoño II, reigns in Galicia, while the third, Fruela II, receives Asturias with Oviedo as his capital.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130820#Europe", "title": "910", "revid": 1341130820, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 914, "year_label": "914 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 19", "text": "January 19 – King García I dies at Zamora (Spain) after a 4-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Ordoño II, who becomes king of Galicia and León. Ordoño continues his expansion and settles his court in León.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355643516#Europe", "title": "914", "revid": 1355643516, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 921, "year_label": "921 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Elvira Menéndez, queen of Galicia and León", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509617#Deaths", "title": "921", "revid": 1341509617, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 924, "year_label": "924 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June", "text": "June – Fruela II, King of Asturias in what is now Portugal, becomes the new ruler of the Kingdom of León and the Kingdom of Galicia in Spain upon the death of his younger brother, King Ordoño II, who dies after a 14-year reign. The ascent of Fruela reunites Asturias, Galicia and Leon. Fruela, who is not popular with the nobles, orders the assassination of the sons of Olmundo.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360748864#April—June", "title": "924", "revid": 1360748864, "section": "Events › April—June"}}, {"year": 925, "year_label": "925 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August", "text": "August — In Spain, Fruela II, King of León and King of Galicia, dies and is temporarily succeeded by his son, Alfonso Fróilaz.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367671300#July_–_December", "title": "925", "revid": 1367671300, "section": "Events › By date › July – December"}}, {"year": 929, "year_label": "929 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Before August 16 – Sancho Ordóñez, king of Galicia (Spain)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367671440#Deaths", "title": "929", "revid": 1367671440, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 933, "year_label": "933 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Alfonso IV, king of León and Galicia (Spain)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364917339#Deaths", "title": "933", "revid": 1364917339, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 951, "year_label": "951 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – Ramiro II, king of León and Galicia", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341512694#Deaths", "title": "951", "revid": 1341512694, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 953, "year_label": "953 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Bermudo II, king of León and Galicia", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341512708#Births", "title": "953", "revid": 1341512708, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 984, "year_label": "984 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Ramiro III of León loses his throne to Bermudo II (the rival king of Galicia), who also becomes ruler of the entire Kingdom of León (modern-day Spain).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341908618#Europe", "title": "984", "revid": 1341908618, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1065, "year_label": "1065 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 24", "text": "December 24 – King Ferdinand I of León (\"the Great\") dies in León, Spain, after an 11-year reign as Emperor of All Spain. His kingdom is divided among his three sons: the eldest Sancho II, the second Alfonso VI and the youngest García II. The kingdoms of Galicia and Portugal become independent under the rule of García.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365271706#Europe", "title": "1065", "revid": 1365271706, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1079, "year_label": "1079 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "April", "text": "April – Urraca, queen regnant of León, Castile and Galicia (d. 1126)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267068328#Births", "title": "1079", "revid": 1267068328, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1090, "year_label": "1090 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 22", "text": "March 22 – García II, king of Galicia and Portugal (b. 1042)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362154341#Deaths", "title": "1090", "revid": 1362154341, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1107, "year_label": "1107 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – King Sigurd I sails for the Holy Land with 60 ships (with some 5,000 men) on the first stage of the Norwegian Crusade to Palestine. Now 17, he is the first European king to support the Crusaders in the Levant. Sigurd leaves his older brother Eystein I to rule the kingdom in his absence – and visits England, France, Galicia and Sicily en route.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365266728#Europe", "title": "1107", "revid": 1365266728, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1107, "year_label": "1107 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 24", "text": "May 24 – Raymond of Burgundy, count of Galicia", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365266728#Deaths", "title": "1107", "revid": 1365266728, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1109, "year_label": "1109 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – Urraca of León becomes queen of León, Castile and Galicia after the death of her father, King Alfonso VI, making her the first European queen regnant. She marries Alfonso I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367315946#Europe", "title": "1109", "revid": 1367315946, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1120, "year_label": "1120 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Almoravid fleet under Admirals Abu Abd Allah ibn Maymum of Almería and Isa ibn Maymum of Sevilla attacks the coastline of the Christian Kingdom of Galicia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1298169999#Europe", "title": "1120", "revid": 1298169999, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1126, "year_label": "1126 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 8", "text": "March 8 – Urraca, queen regnant of León and Galicia (b. 1079)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368526441#Deaths", "title": "1126", "revid": 1368526441, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1137, "year_label": "1137 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Ferdinand II, king of León and Galicia (d. 1188)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362157430#Births", "title": "1137", "revid": 1362157430, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1158, "year_label": "1158 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 31", "text": "August 31 – King Sancho III (\"the Desired\") dies after a 1-year reign. He is succeeded as ruler of Castile by his 2-year-old son Alfonso VIII (\"the Noble\"). The noble houses of Lara and Castro claim the regency, as the boy's uncle, Ferdinand II (ruler of León and Galicia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1301998061#Europe", "title": "1158", "revid": 1301998061, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1171, "year_label": "1171 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "August 15", "text": "August 15 – Alfonso IX, king of León and Galicia (d. 1230)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362165802#Births", "title": "1171", "revid": 1362165802, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1188, "year_label": "1188 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 22", "text": "January 22 – Ferdinand II, king of León and Galicia (b. 1137)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325547787#Deaths", "title": "1188", "revid": 1325547787, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1188, "year_label": "1188 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 22", "text": "January 22 – King Ferdinand II dies after returning from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. He is succeeded by his 16-year-old son Alfonso IX, who becomes ruler of León and Galicia. He convenes representatives of the nobility, clergy and towns at the Basilica of San Isidoro the Cortes of León. These Corteses are considered to be the first parliament in Europe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325547787#Europe", "title": "1188", "revid": 1325547787, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}