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Ancient Context
Islands known to the Romans: Insulae Fortunatae (Fortunate Islands)
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Chronology of the Conquest
1402
Jean de Béthencourt (Norman) conquers Lanzarote for Castile
1479
Islands awarded to the Catholic Monarchs
1492
Christopher Columbus makes a stopover in La Gomera before crossing the Atlantic
1494
Bencomo inflicts humiliating defeat at Acentejo → "La Matanza"
1496
Tenerife falls — last island, after 94 years of cumulative resistance
Chronologie
1497
La Laguna (founded ~):
1494
La Matanza de Acentejo — Village whose name ("the massacre") commemorates the Spanish defe
2026
Museo de Historia y Antropología (La Laguna) — History of the Guanche people and colonizat