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1474 – Juan Ponce de Leon was born to a noble family in Spain. In his teens he fought against the Moors in Grenada. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

20 Sept 1519 – Today in History. 20 Sept 2014. Richmond Times Dispatch. Portugese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and crew went from Spain on five ships to find spice islands.

1543 – Simancas. A European archives repositry was set up by Charles I of Spain. (Managing archives. Caoline Williams (c)2006 UK).

10 March 1624 – England declared war on Spain. (HistoryOrb.com).

17^th century – Archeologists.The body of Miguel de Cerventes was found, at the convent of the barefoot Trinstarens in Madrid Spain, lost since the 17th century. (Christian science monitor 18 March 2015).

1711 – The National library of Spain was founded. (A history of info storage and retrieval. Foster Stockwell ©2001 US).

1713-1770 – In 1770 Charles II died heirless and the Spanish empire passed to Philip Anjo, grandson of Louis XIV of France, plunging Europe into 13 years of war. Thousands of people died on the battlefields of Europe. Philip V of Spain, by the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713. Charles II was the last Spanish King of pure Habsburg descent. (Royal babylon. Karl Shaw ©1999 US).

1724-1746 – In Jan 1724 the King of Spain abdicated to his 17 year old son Louis I. After 8 months Louis died of smallpox. King Philip II. On 9 July 1746 the Catholic majesty had a massive stroke and died. (Royal babylon. Karl Shaw ©1999 US).

1777 – Philip the Duke of Cabaria died of smallpox, after the King refuse to get him vaccinated. (Royal babylon. Karl Shaw ©1999 US).

Feb 1797 – Nelson, Spanish ships during the Battle of Capo St Vincent. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

18^th century – Irish emigrants living in Spain during the 18^th century. www.irishancestors.ie Irish society online. (Who do you think you are. May 2013 UK).

1874-1931 – In Spain a large socialist movement emerged. The trade union tried to gain power. There was not an honest election from 1874-1931. Socialism was lead by Caballero a Madrid plasterer. (The momentous years. Priestly and Betts ©1961).

1885-86 – The Spanish King Alphonse XII died in 1885, 28 years old. When he died his wife was pregnant. Baby King Alphonse XIII was born in May 1886 under the regency of the Queen mother. (Royal babylon. Karl Shaw ©1999 US).

1898 – From 1898 after the loss of Spanish colonies, strikes, executions and assassinations increased. Socialism was a problem. (The momentous years ©1961 Priestly and Betts).

29 Sept 1898 – About Spanish funeral ceremonies. Otago Witness NZ. Papers past.

1914-19 – Pinterest. Spain gypsy dance by Kurt Hielscher. Flikr.

19 April 1919 – Rioting in Madrid. NZ Herald. Papers Past NZ.

Sept 1923 – Spain’s military regime was led by General Primo de Rivera who seized power. (M16 SIS Keith Jeffery ©crown 2010 UK).

25 Feb 1926 – Francisco Franco became the youngest General in Spain. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 25 Feb 2015).

1930s – Gustavo Duran, of Spanish descent, anti Franco forces in Spain in the 1930s. A Socialist agent of the Soviet Communists in the Spanish civil war. By 1946 he was an official in the Latin America section at the US State dept. (Blacklisted by history. Joe McCarthy. M Stanton Evans. (c)2007 US).

1936-39 – Spanish civil war. July 1936, Francisco Franco, 3,000 American volunteers went to Spain to battle the Fascists. 450 men formed the Abraham Lincoln brigade, which suffered 120 dead and 175 wounded. Fighting continued for three years. Spring 1939, killing 100,000 troops and 5,000 foreign volunteers. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

13 May 1936 – The Quiroga government took office in Spain. (HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

July 1936 – The Spanish civil war began. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

18 July 1936-1939 – The Spanish civil war. The military coup of July 1936, led to open violence. Conflict erupted on 18 July 1936. (History Today. April 2013 UK)

1937-39 – Spain in June 1937 the resistance of the Basques collapsed, things tipped towards the government. In 1938 the government of Spain was hungry, starving. Refugees flooded into France. They were gunned down by Italian airplanes. 1939 Franco entered Madrid. Half a million people in concentation camps. (The Observer years. George Orwell (c)2003 UK).

17 May 1937 – Juan Neprin suceeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier. (HistoryOrb.com).

1952 – Pinterest. Jacques Leonard and Rosario Amaya. Gypsy culture in Barcelona.

19 April 1956 – 12 people died and 20 people were injured in Granada. Timeline of earthquakes.

1960-62 – Trafficking of 300,000 babies from Spain by the Catholic church. Monsignor Bryan Walsh. False documents, orphanages and ruling elites.

1960-1989 – 30,000 babies were stolen from their parents, trafficked by Catholics in Spain. Malaga hospital in 1971, official documents were forged birth certificates. Victims were label crazy. San Ramos clinic in Madrid. DNA tests. (Mail online UK. Polly Dunbar. 16 Oct 2011).

1961 – Hugh Thomas. The Spanish civil war. New York Harper.

Aug 1962 – One of Kim Philby’s friends, Tomas Harris the art dealer recently died in a mysterious car accident in Spain. Flora Solomon Russian émigré to the UK. (Spycatcher. Peter Wright. ©1987 UK).

1969 – Doctors and Catholic priests trafficked stolen babies. Mike Elkan in Madrid and Barcelona Spain. Juan Moreno's son Juan Luis who was purchasef in 1969. DNA tests showed Juan Luis birth certificate was that of his adopted parents, but it was fake. Pinterest.

1971 – Pinterest. Joseph Koudelka. Gypsies in Spain. Rice cracker.

1973 – PM Carreo Blanco of Spain was assassinated.

1976 – The Spanish west. Time life books. New York. Worldcat database.

1976 – Ninos Robados. A scandal in the 1980's. Stolen babies during Franco's rule, lasted up to 1976. The Catholic church, hospitals and stolen babies from unwed mothers were sold. Zone-tele. Pinterest.

6 Aug 1977 – Fulgencio Batista went from Portugal to Spain . 14 years after leaving Cuba he died of a heart attack in the town of Mirabel aged 72. (The Havana mob. TJ English ©2007 UK)

29 July 1979 – Madrid baggage area explosion, 1 killed and 9 wounded.

Dec 1980 – bar in Zarauz Spain attack 4 killed.

May 1981 – Banco central Barcelona 200 hostages 1 wounded.

1983 – BCCI acquired Spain’s Banco de Descuento and renames it Bank of Credit and Commerce SA Espanola.

1984 - Cali cartel. Gilberto Rodriguez and Jorge Ochoa went to Spain in 1984. Ranch in Badajoz. Colombian trafficking in Europe. To launder money between Spanish and Panama banks and real estate. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

12 April 1984 – A restaurant near US Air force base at Torrejon was bombed. 18 US servicemen were killed and 83 wounded.

2 August 1984 – Madras suitcase explosion 40 killed 19 wounded.

31 March 1985 – Vladimir Alexandrov, Soviet scientist nuclear winter conference Madrid Spain disappeared. (The anals of unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US)

6 Feb 1986 – Adm Christobal Colon Spain assassination MG Gren 2 killed.

May 1987 – Bob Trimbole died in Spain. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd ©2010 Australia).

May 1987 – Bob Trimbole died of a heart attack aged 55. His body returned to Sydney Australia. (Smack express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).

26 Dec 1987 – A US servicemen’s bar was attacked by Catalan separatists. They bombed a Barcelona bar frequented by US servicemen, resulting in the death of one US citizen.

July 1996-2014 – Adolfo Suarez, PM of Spain, died on 23 March 2014 aged 81. He was appointed in July 1976 aged 43. (The Economist. March April 2014).

20 July 1996 – ETA bombing. A bomb exploded at Tarragona international airport in Reus Spain wounding 35 people including British and Irish tourists. The Basque fatherland and liberty ETA group was suspected.

Sept 1997 – Child sex tourism. In Czech, an Austrian man was jailed for abusing 8 gypsy boys aged 11 to 13 years. Boys from eastern Europe. In Sept 1997 Spanish police arrested two men from Czech. Trafficking dozens of young Czech girls for sex into Madrid nightclubs. 100 girls to these clubs. (The Guardian UK. 17 Dec 1997).

1 Oct 1998 – Spanish Socialist leader, Basques, Joaquin Almunia.

20 Nov 1998 – Spanish Socialist party. BBC London UK. Spanish Socialist workers party. PSOE. Spanish Socialist party.

21 Nov 1998 – Spanish police arrest paedophiles in Valencia. BBC UK.

25 Nov 1998 – Spain government budget policy. Socialist party, Borrell. AFX news London UK. Socialist party Partido Soclista.

12 March 1999 – Spanish Socialist leader, Lafontaine. BBC London UK. Leader of Spain’s Socialist party Josep Borrell European Socialists.

29 March 1999 – Spanish police smash drugs ring, arrest 25. BBC London.

7 July 1999 – Spanish police arrest 54 as drug rings smashed. BBC London. Cocaine and heroin.

29 Sept 1999 – Basque city protests Socialist party offices. BBC London UK. Socialist member party office damaged.

27 Jan 2000 – Unidentified people set fire to a citroen car dealership in Iturreta causing damage to the building and destroying 12 vehicles. The attack bore the hallmark of Basque fatherland and liberty ETA.

9 March 2001 – ETA bombing, two police were killed by the explosion of a car bomb in Hernani Spain.

10 July 2001 – Mohamed Atta met Ramzi bin al-Shibh in Spain along with a number of other Arab men. Bin al-Shibh may also have been at the January 2000 Malaysian meeting.

13 April 2002 – Spanish police arrest Ahmed Brahim who is believed to be the chief financial officer of al-Qaeda network.

23 Aug 2002 – Spain poised to seek the graves of Franco’s dead. Giles Trenlett. The Guardian UK.

2004 – Madrid train bombings by al Qaeda, killing 191 people. Lots of people protested. (Putin’s labyrinth. Steve Levine ©2008 2009 US)

11 March 2004 – Terrorists exploded simultaneous bombs on Madrid’s rail network. Ripping trains and rocking the stations. 190 people were killed. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 11 March 2015).

11 March 2004 – 11 bombs explode on commuter trains at Madrid’s Atolaha station and two sub stations. Death toll of 191 people, about a third of those killed were migrants from 11 different countries. (The 9/11 war. Jason Burke ©2011).

11 March 2004 – A coordinated series of 10 explosions aboard four packed commuter trains in Madrid killed 191 people and injured more than 1,500 others. The attacks were carried out by terrorists boarding the system at outlying stations, deploying their device laden packages in trains and exiting before the predetermined time of detonation.

19 Oct 2004 – Arrests foil Spain court attack, police arrested 7 suspected Islamic militants in raids across Spain, to foil a planned bomb attack on the high court. More terror arrests in Spain but still no evidence presented.

27 May 2005 – Police smash a paedophile ring. The Independent UK. Madrid police broke up a paedophile ring, which was abusing children.

18 Oct 2006 – Passports stolen from the Pakistani mission in Spain, concern they may go to extremists.

7 Nov 2006 – Operation Suez, on 7 Nov 2006 agents from the Spanish national police in Madrid arrested 4 men because of their involvement in a document falsification ring, providing document cover to either Spain and other European countries. The ring had been operating for at least 2 years. One of the detainees, Nasreddive Bousbaa, an Algerian, had been jailed for having contact with the organisers of the terrorism attacks in Madrid, but was later released in Feb 2005. (Jamestown vol 3 issue 45, 21 Nov 2006, Kathryn Haahs).

Feb 2007 – 29 Islamists involved in the 11 March 2003 terror attacks in Madrid, trials began in Feb 2007. (Jamestown vol 3 issue 45. 21 Nov 2006 Kathryn Haahr).

10 Feb 2007 – CNN The national court in Spain convicted 5 Algerians on Islamic terrorism charges and sentenced them to 13 years each according to a sentence. The 3 judge panel acquitted a 6^th Algerian man. The court convicted the 5 men for membership in a terrorist organisation and for document forgery for terrorist purposes. The court acquitted the 5 men on charges of conspiracy to carry out a terrorist attack and possession of explosives. One of the men, Mohamed Tahraoui aged 24 had been charged in an alleged plot on the military base Rotz where US and Spanish troops are based. Near the strait of Gibraltar, that charge was not proven in court. 16 Islamists were arrested in Jan 2003 near Barcelona and rearrested in 2004.

15 Feb 2007 – CNN 10 Feb 2007. The presiding judge Javer Gomez Bermudez will be the judge in the Madrid train bombing trail with 29 defendants, due to start 15 Feb.

15 Jan 2008 – Spanish paedophile links to Madeleine McCann. Daily Record Glasgow Scotland. Madeleine McCann was abducted to order by a paedophile ring in a tourist area in Spain.

15 May 2009 – The cocaine in Spain falls freely in Madrid. Paul Bibby AFP Sydney Morning Herald NSW.

2010 – Mafias in sex trafficking run 4,000 brothels in Spain earning 18 billion Euros a year. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

March 2010 – Spanish police arrested three men over a botnet called Mariposa, Spanish for butterfly. (We are Anonymous. Parmy Olson ©2012 UK).

13 May 2010 – 200 mass graves unearthed in Spain. Global Info Network. New York.

18 Oct 2011 – BBC. Spain’s stolen babies and the families who lived a lie.

7 April 2012 – Catholic babies adoption scandal. Lara Trace. 28 March 2012 Spain.

17 Oct 2012 – Spanish operation Interpol. Money laundering. Madrid 80 people arrested. 10 million Euros seized and a network of Chinese organised money laundering and fraud “Operation Emperader”.120 raids.

26 Jan 2013 – Russian money laundering in Spain. Euronews. A Russian gang 56 million Euros laundering, a mafia network.

11 Sept 2013 – A Spanish forensic team finds eight Saharawi bodies in mass graves. Sandblast. Two of them children.

15 Sept 2013 – Spain arrests 4 Hells angels in a large cocaine bust. NZ Herald Madrid AP. Sailed from Colombia with cocaine.

7 June 2014 – Catholic mass graves of 350,000 missing chldren found in Ireland, Spain and Canada. Judy Byington. Child mass graves linked to the Catholic church. 32 child mass graves in Canada, Catholic residenial schools. Paedophiles.

8 July 2014 – Pope Francis was being prosecuted by the International common law court of justice ICLCJ in Bruseels Belgium, for allegedly trafficking 30,000 children of political prisoners through Vatican Catholic charities from Argentina’s dirty war. Orphans found in mass graves in Spain.

8 July 2014 – Catholic mass grave sites with 350,800 missing children. Above Top Secret. Ireland, Spain and Canada. The 1980’s Franklin cover up scandal, child sex ring in the US, was just the tip of the iceberg. Satanist elites mass murder and abuse of children. The 34^th child mass grave site liked to the Catholic church.

29 July 2014 – Shell company business Fraud. Lionel Messi shell companies to avoid paying tax in Spain.

4 Aug 2014 – Interpol. Stolen vehicle trafficking. Algeciras. Trafficking of stolen vehicles in Spain.

23 Sept 2014 – Spanish lawmaker. Russian mafia case. RAPOSI. Moscow. Catalonia. Andrei Petrov.

3 Oct 2014 – Madeleine McCann disappearance. Might be in Spain. Express UK. Former solder and prison worker David Fullman contacted UK detectives about a sighting in Spain.

8 Oct 2014 – Spanish police detain 54 in paedophile ring. Euro Weekly news. Arrested members of a paedophile ring, child porn file shares on P2P.

27 Oct 2014 – Spain has arrested 51 top figures in an anti corruption swoop. The Guardian UK. A network of corruption.

27 Oct 2014 – Ten corruption cases in Spain. The local.es. Corruption. Spain arrested 51 top figures in an anti corruption swoop. The network of corruption.

28 Oct 2014 – Poverty and education, a lost decade for Spain’s children. The Guardian blog. PorCamsa 2.7 million Spanish children live in poverty and social exclusion.

28 Oct 2014 – Spain police arrest mafia trafficking cocaine. RIA Novosti. 420 kilograms of cocaine from Latin America into Europe.

3 Nov 2014 – Spain police arrested 19 people trafficking women. BBC news. Smuggling Russian, Ukrainian and Belarussian women into Spain.

4 Nov 2014 – Corrupt Spanish politics. The Guardian UK. 2,000 Politicians investigated for corruption, including the mayor of Lore.

7 Nov 2014 – Socialist who earns $45k pounds a year. Mirror UK. Spain, a new left political party is first in the polls, huge problems for the EU.

12 Nov 2014 – 26 arrests in corruption crackdown. The local. Spanish judge Mercedes Alayo. $185 million in public funds by Andalusivo Socialist group.

25 Jan 2015 – Ceuta, police arrest suspected Jihadists in Spain’s north African area. The Guardian UK. Interior minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz.

27 Jan 2015 – Greek fighter jet crashes in Spain killing 10 people. BBC UK. 8 French people were among the 10 killed. A Greek fighter jet crashed during take off. The F16 jet lost power at Los Llanos air base in Albaceta Spain.

6 Feb 2015 – Justice for Fairy. A dog stolen from her owner, viciously raped and left paralysed, dumped in the street to die in Spain. Care2 petitions.

27 Feb 2015 – Poachers beheaded 100 deer and scattered their heads across Spanish woodlands, after the animals were tapped and hungry. Care2 news.

12 June 2015 – Spain changes laws for citizenship and descendants of expelled Jews. The Guardian UK.

29 July 2015 – Dimitni Galanis. Podemos mayor saved 70 families from eviction. Twitter.

30 July 2015 – Before its news. Twitter. Bionic exoskeletons for disabled children crowdfunded in Spain.