Kingdom of Galicia

historical state on the Iberian Peninsula (910–1126)

31 dated entries naming Kingdom of Galicia, drawn from 29 separate years between 463 CE and 1188 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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5th century

463The Suebi live under a diarchy, and fight a civil war over the kingship in Galicia (Northern Spain).source
464The Suevic nation in Galicia (Northern Spain) is unified under King Remismund.source
465King Remismund establishes a policy of friendship with the Visigoths, and promotes the conversion of the Suebi into Arianism in Galicia (Northern Spain).source

6th century

584King Eboric is deposed by his mother (second husband Andeca) who becomes the new ruler of the Kingdom of Galicia (Northern Spain) and the Suevi.source

7th century

640King 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).source

8th century

750King Alfonso I of Asturias establishes the Kingdom of Galicia, in roughly the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. The exact time this happened is contested.source

9th century

873Ordoño II, king of Galicia and León (d. 924)source
895Sancho Ordóñez, king of Galicia (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
914January 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.source
921Elvira Menéndez, queen of Galicia and Leónsource
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
925August — In Spain, Fruela II, King of León and King of Galicia, dies and is temporarily succeeded by his son, Alfonso Fróilaz.source
929Before August 16 – Sancho Ordóñez, king of Galicia (Spain)source
933Alfonso IV, king of León and Galicia (Spain)source
951January 1 – Ramiro II, king of León and Galiciasource
953Bermudo II, king of León and Galiciasource
984King 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).source

11th century

1065December 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.source
1079April – Urraca, queen regnant of León, Castile and Galicia (d. 1126)source
1090March 22 – García II, king of Galicia and Portugal (b. 1042)source

12th century

1107Autumn – 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.source
1107May 24 – Raymond of Burgundy, count of Galiciasource
1109July 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.source
1120The 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.source
1126March 8 – Urraca, queen regnant of León and Galicia (b. 1079)source
1137Ferdinand II, king of León and Galicia (d. 1188)source
1158August 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).source
1171August 15 – Alfonso IX, king of León and Galicia (d. 1230)source
1188January 22 – Ferdinand II, king of León and Galicia (b. 1137)source
1188January 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.source