Basque people

7 dated entries naming Basque people, drawn from 7 separate years between 778 CE and 2011 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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8th century

  • 778August 15 – Battle of Roncevaux Pass (Pyrenees): Charlemagne is defeated by the Basques. Among those killed is Roland, governor of the Breton March, who will be immortalized in the 11th century epic The Song of Roland. This marks the beginning of medieval French literature.source

9th century

  • 824Battle of Roncevaux Pass: The Basques and Banu Qasi defeat a Frankish expedition, led by Counts Aznar and Ebles, in the Pyrenees.source

10th century

  • 905Sancho I succeeds Fortún I as King of Pamplona, and creates a Basque kingdom centered in Navarre (modern-day Spain).source

16th century

  • 1561March 23 – Lope de Aguirre, a Basque Spanish conquistador, begins a rebellion against the Spanish Crown in an attempt to take over most of Spanish South America.source

20th century

  • 1933November 5 – Spanish Basque people vote for autonomy.source
  • 1970December 3 – Burgos Trial: In Burgos, Spain, the trial of 16 Basque terrorism suspects begins.source

21st century

  • 2011October 20 – Basque separatist militant organisation ETA declares an end to its 43-year campaign of political violence, which has killed over 800 people since 1968.source

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