Timeline of Gijón
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Gijón, Spain.
Prior to 20th century
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- 844 – Gijón successfully resisted a Norman raid.[1]
- 1395 – Gijón was burned down.[1]
- 1560 – Gijón city archives active (approximate date).[2][3]
- 1721 – Palacio de Revillagigedo built.
- 1797 – Real Instituto Jovellanos founded.[1]
- 1842 – Population: 16,558.[4]
- 1865 – Casa consistorial de Gijón (city hall) built.[5]
- 1876 – Ceares Cemetery opens.[6]
- 1878 – El Comercio newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1888 – El Bibio bullring opens.
- 1884 – Establishment of railway communications.[1]
- 1890 – Tramways begin to operate in the city. They would continue to do so until 1964.[8]
- 1892 – El Musel port opens.[9]
- 1899 – Jovellanos Theater opens (from 1899 to 1942 it was called Dindurra Theater).[10]
- 1900 – Population: 47,544.[11]
20th century
[edit]- 1905 – Sporting de Gijón is founded.
- 1913 – 22 people die and many more are injured while they were watching a controlled blast at the seaport of El Musel. Due to technical errors, a shower of stones fell on the 300 people who were watching the event.[12]
- 1917 – El Molinón stadium opens (it is the oldest association football stadium in Spain still in use as of 2025).[13]
- 1924 – Cavalcade of Magi is celebrated in Gijón for the first time.[14]
- 1930 – Population: 78,239.[4]
- 1934 – Fighting takes place in the city, in the context of the Spanish 1934 revolution.[15]
- 1936 – Siege of Gijón takes place, during Spanish Civil War.
- 1940 – Population: 101,341.[4]
- 1941
- 1947 – Jove Hospital begins operation in its current location. With different names and in different locations, it has been operating in Gijón from 1804 to the present.[18]
- 1953 – Municipal bus service begins operation.[19]
- 1955 – The construction of the Universidad Laboral is finished.[20]
- 1960 – Las Mil Quinientas (meaning "the one thousand five hundred"), a 1,500-unit housing complex that shaped Pumarín neighbourhood, is inaugurated.[21]
- 1968
- Museum of the Asturian People opens.[22]
- Cabueñes Hospital, Gijón's main hospital, begins operation.[23]
- 1971 – UNINSA steel factory opens. It would be later integrated into Spanish state-owned ENSIDESA steel company. As of 2025, the factory belongs to ArcelorMittal group.[24]
- 1978
- Gijón's school of engineering opens, as part of the University of Oviedo. In 1982, it would move to a new university campus in Viesques neighbourhood, where it continues operating as the Gijón Polytechnic School of Engineering.[25]
- Seven children die after drowning at sea in San Lorenzo beach. [26]
- 1979 – José Manuel Palacio becomes the first mayor of Gijón elected after the restoration of democracy in Spain. [27]
- 1980 – A shooting incident in Ceares neighbourhood leaves 3 dead and 1 injured. [28]
- 1981
- Population: 255,969.[4]
- Carnival is celebrated in Gijón for the first time since Spanish Civil War.[29]
- 1982 – Part of 1982 FIFA World Cup football contest held in Gijón, including the controversial match between West Germany and Austria.
- 1984 – Student Raúl Losa is killed in a demonstration against shipyard reconversion, when a man used his gun to try to prevent his car from being used as a barricade.[30]
- 1985 – Las Mestas athletics track opens.[31]
- 1986 – Castillo de Salas ship sinks in Gijón while carrying nearly 100,000 tons of coal. People watched the ship for days as it was in the process of sinking. San Lorenzo beach suffered from oil and coal spills afterwards.[32]
- 1987 – Vicente Álvarez Areces becomes mayor.
- 1988 – Gijón's Semana Negra ("black week") literary festival is held for the first time.[33]
- 1989 – 2 Civil Guard agents are murdered by GRAPO terrorist group at Gijón tax office.[34]
- 1990
- Elogio del Horizonte, monument by Eduardo Chillida and symbol of the city, is inaugurated.[35]
- Slums are eradicated from El Llano neighbourhood. About 400 people from 60 families needed to be rehoused. A big avenue and a shopping mall were created in the area, along with residential buildings. The operation would be complete by 1993.[36]
- 1992 – Palacio de Deportes opens.
- 1993 – Local television channel TLG (Televisión Local Gijón) opens. It would close down in 2009.[37]
- 1995
- El Comercio newspaper becomes the first one in Spain to be available on the Internet.[38]
- Poniente Beach, an artificial beach, is inaugurated.[39]
- Elías Méndez Menéndez, a wine distributor, dies while trying to prevent a bank robbery. A park in the city was named after him 3 years later.[40]
- 1996 – Gijón's Carnival includes the entierro de la sardina (burial of the sardine) parade for the first time. Since then, a different name and characterization are given to the Gijón Carnival's sardine each year. The 1996 sardine was called Lorenza.[41]
- 1997 – 2 young people die when their car falls into the sea at Gijón marina. 2 other young women survived, one of them very seriously injured. [42]
- 1998 – Gijón Railway Museum opens, occupying the building of former Gijón's Renfe station, in operation until 1990.[43]
- 1999
- Paz Fernández Felgueroso becomes mayor.
- Deva Cemetery opens.[6]
- 2000 – 3 people from the same family die, and another 3 are injured, after being run over by a car (whose driver tested positive for alcohol) on a sidewalk during the fireworks night on August 15, one of the main festivities in Gijón.[44]
21st century
[edit]- 2002 – The roof of Gijón bus station falls down, leaving 11 people injured.[45]
- 2003 – Jardín Botánico Atlántico (botanical garden) founded.[46]
- 2006
- 2011
- Carmen Moriyón becomes mayor.
- Population: 276,969.[4]
- 2014 – Metrópoli music and entertainment media festival is celebrated for the first time.[50]
- 2019 – Ana González becomes mayor.[51]
- 2023 – Carmen Moriyón becomes mayor again.[52]
Evolution of the Gijón map
[edit]19th century
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1870
20th century
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1999 (East)
21st century
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2011 (West) -
2011 (East)
See also
[edit]Other cities in the autonomous community of Asturias:(es)
References
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This article incorporates information from the Asturian Wikipedia and Spanish Wikipedia.
Bibliography
[edit]- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 6.
- "Gijon", Spain and Portugal (4th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913, hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t5q81nw29 – via HathiTrust
- Trudy Ring, ed. (1995). "Gijon". Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Vol. 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 1884964028.
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