Spain

Country article in printed Atlas

Chronology
1802 First volumes of the Diccionario geográfico-histórico de España
1839 Chair in diplomatic palaeography at the Real Sociedad Económica Matritense (Royal Economic Society of Madrid)
1842 The Real Academia de la Historia (RAH, Royal Academy of History, founded in 1738 in Madrid) starts the Colección de Documentos Inéditos para la Historia de España
1849 First chair in general history at the University of Madrid
1856 Escuela de Diplomática (School of Diplomatics) on RAH premises
1857 Chairs in universal history and Spanish history at the six arts faculties of the Spanish universities
1858 Archivo General Central (General Central Archive) in Alcalá de Henares
1866 Archivo Histórico Nacional (National Historical Archive) in Madrid
1867 Museo Arqueológico Nacional (National Archaeological Museum) and provincial museums
1876 Associació Catalanista d’Excursions Cientifiques (Catalan Association of Scientific Excursions) in Barcelona
1877 Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia (Bulletin of the Royal Academy of History) first national historical journal
1880 Revista de Ciencias Históricas (Review of Historical Sciences) in Barcelona
1884 Section on Historical Sciences at the University of Madrid
1893 Sociedad Española de Excursiones (Spanish Excursions Society) in Madrid
1895 The Revista Crítica de Historia y Literatura (Critical Review of History and Literature) first Spanish journal on historical criticism
1900 History Sections at the Universities of Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia and Zaragoza
1907 Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC, Institute for Catalan Studies) in Barcelona
1910 Centro de Estudios Históricos (CEH, Centre for Historical Studies) within the Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios e Investigación (JAE) in Madrid
1939–40 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, National Research Council) and its journal Hispania (Spain)
1946 Societat Catalana d’Estudis Històrics (Catalan Society for Historical Studies), subsidiary of the IEC, in Barcelona
1952 Asociación Española de Ciencias Históricas (Spanish Association of Historical Sciences), Spanish committee of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS) on RAH premises
1965 First woman appointed to a university chair in history
1976 Museo do Pobo Galego (Museum of the Galician People) in Santiago de Compostela
1979 Specific section of the Archivo Histórico Nacional devoted to the Civil War in Salamanca
1990 Arxiu Nacional of Catalonia (National Archive of Catalonia) in Barcelona
1991 Museo de Historia de Euskal Herría (Euskal Herría History Museum) in Guernica
1996 Museu d’Història de Catalunya (History Museum of Catalonia) in Barcelona
2005 First Catalan documents from the Archivo General de la Guerra Civil Española (General Archive of the Spanish Civil War) transferred to the National archive of Catalonia
2005 Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica (Documentary Centre of Historical Memory) in Salamanca

 

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