Maniu publicly protested, and attempted to organize a peasants ' march on Bucharest as a public show of support modeled on the Alba Iulia assembly.

Thereafter, Alba attempted to conquer Alkmaar in the north, but the city withstood the Spanish attack.

The Mormaerdom or Kingdom of Moray was ruled by the family of Macbeth ( Mac Bethad mac Findláich ) and Lulach ( Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin ); not overmighty subjects, but a family who had ruled Alba within little more than a lifetime.

They later established paint manufacturer Alba ( 1925 ), chemical and fertilizer maker Compañía Química, and textile maker Grafa ( 1932 ), among others ; by the late 1920s, the company's annual export receipts alone reached US $ 300 million.

Among those noted by the Irish annals, the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are Ívarr — Ímar in Irish sources — who was active from East Anglia to Ireland, Halfdán — Albdann in Irish, Healfdene in Old English — and Amlaíb or Óláfr.

According to the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba he was killed by Causantín either in 871 or 872 when he returned to Pictland to collect further tribute.

Constantine, son of Áed ( Medieval Gaelic: Constantín mac Áeda ; Modern Gaelic: Còiseam mac Aoidh, known in most modern regnal lists as Constantine II ; before 879 – 952 ) was an early King of Scotland, known then by the Gaelic name Alba.

The earliest event recorded in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba in Constantine's reign is an attack by Vikings and the plundering of Dunkeld " and all Albania " in his third year.

This is the first use of the word Albania, the Latin form of the Old Irish Alba, in the Chronicle which until then describes the lands ruled by the descendants of Cináed as Pictavia.

The next event reported by the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba is dated to 906.

This was thought to record the election of a brother of Constantine named Domnall to the kingship of the Britons of Strathclyde and was seen as early evidence of the domination of Strathclyde by the kings of Alba.

For the re-reading by Benjamin Hudson, see Woolf, Pictland to Alba, pp. 127 – 129 and 152 – 157 ; Dumville, " Chronicle of the Kings of Alba ", p. 77.

In this the " hoary " Constantine, by now around 60 years of age, is said to have lost a son in the battle, a claim which the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba confirms.

The Céli Dé were subsequently to be entrusted with many monasteries throughout the kingdom of Alba until replaced in the 12th century by new orders imported from France.

The first one is supposed to have been near Alba Longa before the town was destroyed by the Romans.

Aside from Eugene Onegin, Hofstadter has translated many other poems ( always respecting their formal constraints ), and two other novels ( in prose ): La Chamade ( That Mad Ache ) by French writer Françoise Sagan, and La Scoperta dell ' Alba ( The Discovery of Dawn ) by Walter Veltroni, the then head of the Partito Democratico in Italy.

In 1512 under Ferdinand the Catholic as King of the first political unit referred to as Spain, joint Spanish troops from both the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon commanded by Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, second Duke of Alba, first invaded partially the Kingdom of Navarre.

Around 105, however, there appears to have been a serious setback at the hands of the tribes of the Picts of Alba: several Roman forts were destroyed by fire, with human remains and damaged armour at Trimontium ( at modern Newstead, in SE Scotland ) indicating hostilities at least at that site.

In 945, Máel Coluim I annexed Strathclyde as part of a deal with King Edmund of England, where the kings of Alba had probably exercised some authority since the later ninth century, an event offset somewhat by loss of control in Moray.

The larger islands have been continuously inhabited since Neolithic times, were influenced by the emergence of the kingdom of Dál Riata from 500 AD and then absorbed into the emerging Kingdom of Alba under Kenneth MacAlpin.

Islands close to the shores of modern Ayrshire would have remained part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde during this period, whilst the main islands became part of the emerging Kingdom of Alba founded by Kenneth MacAlpin ( Cináed mac Ailpín ).

The origin myth of the kingdom of Alba traced its foundation to the supposed destruction of Pictland by Kenneth MacAlpin, and its kings were chosen from the male line descendants of Kenneth, with the possible exception of the shadowy Eochaid, said to be Kenneth's daughter's son.

During the century in which the lists correspond well with the annals, the succession to the kingship of Alba was held in an alternating fashion by two branches of the descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin, one descended from Kenneth's son Constantín, Clann Constantín mac Cináeda, and one from Constantín's brother Áed, Clann Áeda mac Cináeda.

* 1771 – Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15.

Alba expanded, absorbing the Brythonic kingdom of Strathclyde and Bernician Lothian, and by the 11th century the Pictish identity had been subsumed into the " Scots " amalgamation of peoples.

Alba went against the States General by imposing sales taxes by decree on 31 July 1571.

In 1809, French dragoons scored notable successes against Spanish armies at the Battle of Ocana and the Battle of Alba de Tormes.

* 1989 – Jordi Alba, Spanish footballer

Anguissola traveled to Rome, where she was introduced to Michelangelo who immediately recognized her talent, Milan, where she painted the Duke of Alba, Madrid, which was a turning point in her career serving as a court painter and painting many official portraits for the Spanish court, and Palermo, Pisa, and Genoa, where she was the leading portrait painter.

In 1558, already established as a painter, Anguissola went to Milan, where she painted the Duke of Alba, who in turn recommended her to the Spanish king, Philip II.

* December 11 – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, Spanish general ( b. 1507 )

** Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba, Spanish military leader ( d. 1583 )

* The Duke of Alba arrives in the Netherlands with Spanish forces to suppress unrest there.

The Spanish, led by Don Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens since Philip replaced Alba in 1573, also had their successes.

The works were commissioned by the Duke of Alba Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó, who had met Lutyens while he was the Spanish ambassador to Great Britain.

While touring with La Barraca, García Lorca wrote his now best-known plays, the Rural Trilogy of Bodas de Sangre ( Blood Wedding ), Yerma and La Casa de Bernarda Alba ( The House of Bernarda Alba ), which all rebelled against the norms of bourgeois Spanish society.

Following this, Bodas de Sangre ( Blood Wedding ), Yerma and La casa de Bernarda Alba ( The House of Bernarda Alba ) were successfully played on the main Spanish stages.

In 1573 the city successfully withstood a siege by Spanish forces under the leadership of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba.

The city was pillaged again in 1568 by Spanish troops under the ' Iron ' Duke of Alba, fighting for Charles's successor, Philip II of Spain.

During the Eighty Years ' War between the Netherlands and Spain, the Capture of Brielle on April 1, 1572, by Protestant rebels, the Watergeuzen, marked a turning point in the conflict, as many towns in Holland then began to support William of Orange against the Spanish Duke Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba who was sent to pacify The Netherlands.

In 1556, Anagni became a battlefield in the conflict between Pope Paul IV and King Philip II of Spain, when it was besieged by the Spanish army under the Duke of Alba.

Wellington, believing that the Alba de Tormes crossing was blocked by a Spanish battalion in a fortified castle, directed his pursuit along a different road.

The victory was flawed by the failure of Spanish troops to guard a crucial escape route over the bridge at Alba de Tormes, possibly by a misunderstanding between Spanish and British commanders.

The northern Spanish army was beaten a week later at the Battle of Alba de Tormes.

The sacking and looting of Mechelen by the Spanish troops led by the Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba | Duke of Alba, 2 October 1572.

His descendants were the French Ducs de Fitz-James and the Spanish Duques de Liria and later the Dukes of Alba.