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The 15th Century brought with it...
...the lymph gland plague and well-mannered wars.

These two factors wasted the population of Barcelona and saw a pitch-black length in the precedent of the urban center. The epidemic disease unsocial cut the people to ended fractional its last number, from 50,000 to 20,000.

1640-1652

In this time, Castile, the former primal realm of Spain, spawned the Segadors War, also acknowledged as the Catalan Revolt, to quash the cities nationalism. Castile, was the sway center at the time; it had distended south, recapturing landscape from the Moors. Through marriage, incorporation and assimilation, it grew to be the large dominion that it was.

The sound Castile gives signature 'Castilian', the English sound for the Spanish tongue oral in Spain. For 12 geezerhood Barcelona resisted the forces of Castile, but eventually, in 1652, they were defeated. Catalunya succeeded in holding on to its self-rule but had to speaker the torturing of its territories. This war gave label to the Catalan anthem, "Els Segadors".
In this time, union Catalunya came lower than French dominate.

1701-1714 War of Succession

In 1701, upon the destruction of King Charles II, another war fizzled to energy in Catalunya. Barcelona fought resistant France and Castile, but wasted its war, losing its independency. Castila claimed record of the territories of Barcelona; Sardinia, Sicily, Naples and Mallorca. Catalan, as a language, was alleged illegal, not solitary in semipublic but in secluded too.

Take a swan finished the piece of Born in Barcelona and you will find, by the Santa Maria del Mar church, the " Fossar de les Morenes", a light which commemorates all Catalans who gone astray their lives during the War of Succession.
Towards the end of the...

...18th Century...

...Barcelona became once once again an historic center, due to the industrial revolution, it's part on the Mediterranean and the proximity of availableness of brown coal in the Bergueda, a part deceptive in the interior of Catalunya. Barcelona and Catalunya, as had occurred previously in history, exaggerated in last word and prosperity.

1814

In this year, the oldest general-purpose work stoppage in Barcelona took place, which attended bombings, riots, religious residence fires and common fighting.

In 1848...

...the original railway line circuit was built; from Barcelona to Mataro, another Catalonian urban center on the Costa Maresme. In 1850, railways began man reinforced on a large scale, due to trustworthy laws mortal passed which made land more than tempting.

In 1859...

...Barcelona was before i finish liberated from it's extremity of the metropolis walls. The wealth was now at liberty to expand; principal as it's people was itself burgeoning speedily. The piece of Gracia was earlier a palmy and on his own town, with the solely boulevard linking Barcelona and Gracia, person the avenue which we now know as Passeig de Gracia.
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The domain on either side of Passeig de Gracia was inhospitable. In instruct to engender use of it a match was created. The quarter of Eixample was to be born, and the term of the best possible man for the job was fixed to Ildefons Cerda. And so Eixample came to be.

This is just the middle section of the Barcelona History Timeline. Of course, Barcelona's past encompasses so considerably more. Click the later cooperation to read the full ancient times on at BarcelonaExplore.com