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Kingdom of Asturias

former kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula

32 dated entries naming Kingdom of Asturias, drawn from 26 separate years between 685 CE and 924 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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7th century

  • 685Pelagius, king of Asturias (approximate date)source
  • 693Alfonso I, king of Asturias (approximate date; d. 757)source

8th century

  • 718Summer – Battle of Covadonga: Pelagius (Don Pelayo) is proclaimed king (caudillo), and defeats the Umayyad forces under Munuza, provincial governor of Asturias, at Picos de Europa (near Covadonga). This marks the beginning of the Reconquista, the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula. He founds the Kingdom of Asturias, and establishes a military base at Cangas de Onís (northwest of Spain) (or 722).source
  • 720The Umayyad Caliphate reaches its greatest extent in Spain, controlling all of it except a small region in the north controlled by the Kingdom of Asturias.source
  • 722Summer – Battle of Covadonga: Visigothic nobleman Pelagius (Don Pelayo) defeats the Umayyad forces under Munuza, provincial governor of Asturias, at Picos de Europa (near Covadonga). This marks the beginning of the Reconquista, the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula. He founds the Kingdom of Asturias, and establishes a military base at Cangas de Onís (northwest of Spain) (or 718).source
  • 722Fruela I, king of Asturias (approximate date)source
  • 737Pelagius, king of Asturias (Spain) (b. 685)source
  • 739Favila, king of Asturias (Spain)source
  • 740Aurelius, king of Asturias (approximate date)source
  • 750Bermudo I, king of Asturias (approximate date)source
  • 757King Alfonso I ("the Catholic") dies at Cangas (modern Spain), after an 18-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Fruela I as ruler of Asturias.source
  • 759Alfonso II, king of Asturias (d. 842)source
  • 774King Aurelius dies after a 6-year reign, and is succeeded by his cousin-in-law Silo, as ruler of Asturias (Northern Spain).source
  • 774Aurelius, king of Asturias (Spain)source
  • 783Silo, king of Asturias (Spain)source
  • 788King Mauregatus of Asturias dies after a 5-year reign, and is succeeded by Bermudo I as ruler of Asturias (modern Spain).source
  • 788Mauregatus, king of Asturias (or 789)source
  • 789Mauregatus, king of Asturias (or 788)source
  • 790Ramiro I, king of Asturias (approximate date)source
  • 791September 14 – Alfonso II, the son of former king Fruela I, becomes ruler of Asturias (Northern Spain). He moves the capital to Oviedo, the commercial centre of the region.source
  • 793Emir Hisham I of Córdoba calls for a jihad ("Holy War") against the Christian Franks. He assembles an army of 70,000 men, half of which attacks the Kingdom of Asturias, destroying its capital, Oviedo, while the other half invades Languedoc, penetrating as far as Narbonne. After capturing the city, the contingent moves towards Carcassonne and conquers it too. Both armies return to Córdoba enriched with the spoils of war.source
  • 797Bermudo I, king of Asturias (approximate date)source

9th century

  • 821Ordoño I, king of Asturias (approximate date)source
  • 848Alfonso III, king of Asturias (approximate date)source
  • 850February 1 – Ramiro I, king of Asturiassource
  • 850February 1 – King Ramiro I dies in his palace at Santa María del Naranco (near Oviedo), after an 8-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Ordoño I, as ruler of Asturias.source
  • 866May 27 – Ordoño I, king of Asturiassource
  • 866May 27 – King Ordoño I, ruler of the Kingdom of Asturias, dies after a 16-year reign. He is succeeded by his son, Alfonso III, who later is referred to as "Alfonso the Great".source
  • 875Fruela II, king of Asturias and León (approximate date)source

10th century

  • 910Summer – 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.source
  • 910December 20 – Alfonso III, king of Asturiassource
  • 924June – 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.source

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