Timeline of Historical Events c. 40,000 b.c. Modern humans appear in the Iberian Peninsula. 36,000–9000 b.c. Evidence of prehistoric cave art. c. 1600 b.c. Iberian immigration into Spain. c. 1100 b.c. Phoenicians trade and begin colonies. c. 750–500 b.c. Tartassian culture. c. 750 b.c. Celts appear. c. 500–206 b.c. Carthaginian dominion in south. 217–219 b.c. Roman conquest. 19 b.c.– c. a.d. 450 Roman Spain Judaism and Christianity appear. a.d. 409 Germanic invasions begin. c. 480–711 Visigothic kingdom of Spain. 711–718 Moorish conquest Muslim al-Andalus (Andalusia) develops. 718 Pelayo stops Moors at Covadonga becomes king of Asturias. 751–763 Galicia joins Asturias.
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