Contents
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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
Timeline
1402
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1479
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1492
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1494
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1496
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1497
La Laguna (founded ~1497):
1494
La Matanza de Acentejo, Village whose name ("the massacre") commemorates the Spanish…