Catherine was born at the Archbishop's Palace in Alcalá de Henares near Madrid, on the night of 16 December 1485.

* 1769 – Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá.

It was first cultivated at Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1769 or later around 1795.

asociación española para el estudio del cuaternario ( aequa ), Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Alcalá Madrid, Spain.

* Don Gil de Alcalá

* July 16 – Father Junípero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the 21 California missions.

In Spain the three branches of the Armed Forces have paratrooper units, being the biggest in number the Army's Paratrooper Brigade in Alcalá de Henares.

Born at Zaragoza, he studied at Alcalá de Henares under the Hellenist Hernan Nufiez.

Captain ( OF-2 ) | Captain Fernando Rivera y Moncada violated ecclesiastical Right of asylum | asylum at Mission San Diego de Alcalá on March 26, 1776 when he forcibly removed a ' neophyte ' in direct defiance of the padres.

An illustration depicts the death of Father Luís Jayme by angry natives at Mission San Diego de Alcalá, November 4, 1775.

Olives ( first cultivated at Mission San Diego de Alcalá ) were grown, cured, and pressed under large stone wheels to extract their oil, both for use at the mission and to trade for other goods.

Natives utilize a primitive plough | plow to prepare a field for planting near Mission San Diego de Alcalá.

In September, 1821 Father Mariano Payeras, " Comisario Prefecto " of the California missions, visited Cañada de Santa Ysabel east of Mission San Diego de Alcalá as part of a plan to establish an entire chain of inland missions.

* Four of the missions ( San Diego de Alcalá, San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, San Francisco de Asís, and San Juan Capistrano ) have been designated minor basilicas by the Holy See due to their cultural, historic, architectural, and religious importance.

The popularity of the missions also stemmed largely from Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona and the subsequent efforts of Charles Fletcher Lummis, William Randolph Hearst, and other members of the " Landmarks Club of Southern California " to restore three of the southern missions in the early 20th century ( San Juan Capistrano, San Diego de Alcalá, and San Fernando ; the Pala Asistencia was also restored by this effort ).

* Mission San Diego de Alcalá founded in 1769

* Mission San Diego de Alcalá, in San Diego

* Mission San Diego de Alcalá ( 1769 – 1771 )

In early 1775, Don Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa, Viceroy of New Spain, authorized the establishment of two additional mission sites, one of these to be placed at a logical halfway point between Mission San Diego de Alcalá and Mission San Gabriel Arcángel.

Following the establishment of Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1769, he went to Northern California in 1773.

Nonetheless, several proposals have been made to make other towns the capital of the community like Alcalá de Henares, in the 1980s, and more recently, Getafe, without any relevance.

The city of Complutum ( today Alcalá de Henares ) became an important metropolis, whereas Titulcia and Miaccum were important crossroad communities.

Alcalá de Henares was designated the bishopric seat in the 5th century by orders of Asturio, archbishop of Toledo, but this event was not enough to bring back the lost splendor of the city.

It soon became the most strategic fortress in defense of the city of Toledo above the fortresses of Talamanca de Jarama and Qal '- at '- Abd-Al-Salam ( Alcalá de Henares ).

Alcalá de Henares fell in 1118 in a new period of Castilian annexation.

On the other hand, the town of Buitrago de Lozoya, Alcalá de Henares and Talamanca de Jarama, which were rapidly repopulated until that century, were under the dominion of the feudal or ecclesiastical lords.

Specifically, Alcalá de Henares was under the hands of the archbishopric of Toledo and remained so until the 19th century.

Besides its growing political importance, it also became a cultural center with the foundation of the University of Alcalá de Henares on 1508.

* De Causa Matrimonii ... Henrici VIII cum Catharina Aragonensi ( Alcalá de Henares, 1530 );

Alcalá de Henares (), meaning Citadel on the river Henares, is a Spanish city whose historical centre is one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, and one of the first bishoprics founded in Spain.

The city is generally known simply as " Alcalá ", but " de Henares " is often appended to differentiate it from a dozen cities sharing the name Alcalá ( from the Arabic word al-qal ' a القلعة for fortification or citadel ).

The author Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares, and baptized in the Church of Santa Maria in 1547, although his family moved from the city when he was still young.

During this ceremony the citizens of Alcalá can be heard singing the city's song, entitled " Alcalá de Henares.

" In addition, some buildings at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, were modeled after the architecture of Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

A new university was founded in the old buildings as the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares in 1977.

Alcalá de Henares, as the birthplace of Catherine of Aragon, is twinned with the English city of Peterborough in England, her final resting-place.

* Complutenses, authors of the courses of Scholastic philosophy, theology and moral theology who were lecturers of the philosophical college of the Discalced Carmelites at Alcalá de Henares

* Tourist Guide Alcalá de Henares PDF

* Google Maps: The Plaza de Cervantes in Alcalá de Henares

The city is capital of its namesake region, Comarca de Alcalá.

Alcalá is well known for its population of white storks.

A Papal Bull of 7 March 1885, united Alcalá with ( effectively merging it into ) the diocese of Madrid which includes the civil province of Madrid, suffragan of the archbishopric of Toledo, which was formally speaking not canonically erected before while its foundation dated from the Spanish Concordat of 1851.

The University of San Diego is largely based on the Spanish University ; its campus and address take the name " Alcalá Park.

It was not until 1991 that the Diocese of Alcalá was finally restored, being separated from the Archdiocese of Madrid, at which time the building was granted its present status of Cathedral-Magistral.

In the 1700s the valley in which San Diego Country Estates is located received its name when Father Mariner of Mission San Diego de Alcalá discovered the location, proclaiming it a constant and beautiful valley, and named it in honor of Saint Vincent.

The stadium is located immediately northwest of the interchange of Interstate 8 and Interstate 15 ; the neighborhood surrounding the stadium is known as Mission Valley, in reference to the Mission San Diego de Alcalá, which is located to the east, and its placement in the valley of the San Diego River.

Scotism appears to have attained its greatest popularity at the beginning of the seventeenth century ; during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries we even find special Scotist chairs, e. g. at Paris, Rome, Coimbra, Salamanca, Alcalá, Padua, and Pavia.

On December 13, 2004, the Cervantes Institute formed its Centro de Formación de Profesores in its Head Office, located in Alcalá de Henares, where Cervantes was born.

In the 16th century, Pedro de Alcalá produced his Arabic primers for Spanish speakers, and several histories were written about the previous century's reconquest of the Kingdom of Granada with its aftermath of Moorish uprisings.

River Júcar flows first southward and then eastward through the towns of Cuenca, Alcalá del Júcar, Cofrentes, Alzira, Sueca and Cullera, a town located near its mouth into the Gulf of Valencia, Mediterranean Sea.

The University of Alcalá is especially renowned in the Spanish-speaking world for its annual presentation of the highly prestigious Cervantes Prize.

Today's University of Alcalá preserves its traditional humanities faculties, a testimony to the university's special efforts, past and present, to promote and diffuse the Spanish language through both its studies and the Cervantes Prize, which is awarded annually by the King and Queen of Spain in the Paraninfo ( Great Hall ).

The University has added to its time-honoured education in the humanities and social sciences new degree subjects in scientific fields such as health sciences or engineering, spread out across its different sites ( the Alcalá Campus, El Encín, and Guadalajara ), all of which, together with the Science and Technology Park, are a key factor in its projection abroad, while also acting as a dynamo for activities in its local region.

Because of its rich tradition in the humanities, the University of Alcalá offers several programs in Spanish language and literature.

The University of Alcalá boasts an extensive network of 14 libraries spread across its three campuses.

Later, Fernando VII would approve the construction of a commemorative pyramid in Alcalá in honor of the victory, only to order its destruction in 1823, deriding it as a symbol of a " liberal ".

Tobarra was inhabited before the Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, as shown by the fact that the Via Romana which connected Complutum ( Alcalá de Henares ) with Carthago Nova ( Cartagena ) was diverted several kilometres to pass through Tobarra, and afterward continued on its way to Illunum ( Minateda ).