The economy of Gibraltar is managed and controlled by the Government of Gibraltar.

In recent years, Gibraltar has seen major structural change from a public to a private sector economy, but changes in government spending still have a major impact on the level of employment.

The Gibraltar Government state that economy grew in 2004 / 2005 by 7 % to a GDP of £ 599, 180, 000.

It demonstrated that Gibraltar's economy has a significant and very positive economic impact on the Campo de Gibraltar.

However, his hopes of military support foundered as Philip III of Spain wanted to maintain the recent 1604 peace treaty with James I of England, the Spanish economy had gone bankrupt in 1596 and its European fleet had been destroyed some months earlier by the Dutch Republic at the Battle of Gibraltar.

It was again unsuccessful, mainly due to the arrival of the Black Death, which decimated the besiegers, causing the death of the king ( Fifth Siege of Gibraltar ).

In 711, Muslim Moors, mainly North African Berber soldiers with some Arabs, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and began their conquest of the Christian Visigothic Kingdom of Hispania.

From 16 June to 28 August 2011, the ' Greatest Hits +' tour visited European countries: the UK, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland, Gibraltar & Serbia mainly at summer festival venues.

After graduating with a second-class honours degree, Johnson performed his national service in the Army, joining the King's Royal Rifle Corps and then the Royal Army Educational Corps, where he was commissioned as a Captain ( acting ) based mainly in Gibraltar.

The party political stands were mainly two: the parity of wages between the labour force in Gibraltar and that in the United Kingdom and the achievement of the integration with the United Kingdom.

Current RAF stations are mainly in the United Kingdom ; however RAF Akrotiri is in the UK Sovereign Base Area of Cyprus, RAF Gibraltar is in Gibraltar, and RAF Mount Pleasant is in the Falkland Islands.

* 1470 20 December – A new charter was granted to the town of Gibraltar, now a nobiliary town, based in the Antequera charter.

* 1940 4 July – French bombers, based in French Morocco, carried out a retaliatory air raid over Gibraltar as a reprisal for the destruction of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, by the Force H ( about 1, 300 French sailors were killed and about 350 were wounded in the action against the French fleet ).

* 1940 – World War II: the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers el Kébir, is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne.

The company is based in Gibraltar and the British Virgin Islands in order to avoid French taxes.

The British Forces Cyprus are stationed there to defend them, and they contain a British defence radio listening post, and the only full-fledged Royal Air Force air base in the Mediterranean region ( since Gibraltar does not have any aircraft permanently based there ), called RAF Akrotiri.

They based groups in Michigan at Fort Gratiot ( present Port Huron ), Mount Clemens, Detroit, and Gibraltar.

* Gibraltar ( operating system ), a Linux based Firewall

Force H was based at Gibraltar, and there was already a flag officer at the base, Flag Officer Commanding, North Atlantic.

He implemented the plan – codenamed " Operation Catapult " – for a British fleet, coded " Force H " and based in Gibraltar, to sail to the harbor of Mers-el-Kébir, near Oran in Algeria, where four capital ships and other vessels were stationed, in order to persuade Admiral Marcel-Bruno Gensoul to disobey orders from Vichy and have his vessels sail either to British waters or else to those of French colonies in the Far East or even to the ( still neutral ) USA with a view to preventing them from being used against the Allies.

The battalion was based in various parts of the country for nearly a decade until 1938, when it became part of the Gibraltar garrison.

Gibraltar Firewall is an operating system based on Debian.

Gibraltar Linux is based on free Software, which was enhanced by a web based administration tool.

British Admiral James Somerville of Force H, based in Gibraltar, was ordered to deliver an ultimatum to the French, stating:

Modern Water plc has deployed forward osmosis based desalination plants in Gibraltar and Oman.

After a year ashore in the Admiralty, Boyle was back to sea as commander on the armoured cruiser HMS Good Hope, based with the Atlantic Fleet at Gibraltar, commanded by Sir John Jellicoe.

The see is based in the City of Gibraltar where the bishop's seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity.

If only continental Europe is of interest and outlying islands like Iceland, Franz Josef Land and the Azores are being disregarded, thus having the extreme points in Northern Norway, Gibraltar and again in Crete and the Caucasus region, and again based on distances, the centre of Europe would actually be in Poland, somewhere near somewhat North of the city of Poznań.

Until 1872, the currency situation in Gibraltar was complicated, with a system based on the real being employed which encompassed British, Spanish and Gibraltarian coins.

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His next major assignment was as naval commander, on, of the newly formed Force H based in Gibraltar.

In March 1885, he was removed from command and imprisoned at Gibraltar, when British forces suspected that he might have negotiated fealty to Ahmad, the " false prophet ", based on alleged correspondence between them.

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* Monte Hacho ( Abila Mons ), the southern of the Pillars of Hercules on the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta

It then sailed to Gibraltar, arriving on 18 October to the cheers of the garrison: Saumarez wrote that " We can never do justice to the warmth of their applause, and the praises they all bestowed on our squadron ".

Plato refers to Gibraltar as one of the Pillars of Hercules along with Jebel Musa or Monte Hacho on the other side of the Strait.

Henry IV restored the charter granted to Gibraltar in 1310 and took two additional measures: the lands previously belonging to Algeciras ( destroyed in 1369 ) were granted to Gibraltar ; and the status of collegiate church was solicited from the pope Pius II and granted to the parish church of Saint Mary the Crowned (), now the Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned, on the site of the old main Moorish Mosque.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux, whose feast falls on 20 August, became the Patron Saint of Gibraltar.

Many passed through Gibraltar on their way into exile in North Africa.

The Coat of arms of Gibraltar | arms granted to the city of Gibraltar by a Royal Warrant passed in Toledo, Spain | Toledo on 10 July 1502 by Isabella I of Castile

* 1502 10 July – By a Royal Warrant passed in Toledo by Isabella I of Castile, Gibraltar was granted its coat of arms: " An escutcheon on which the upper two thirds shall be a white field and on the said field set a red castle, and below the said castle, on the other third of the escutcheon, which must be a red field in which there must be a white line between the castle and the said red field, there shall be a golden key which hangs by a chain from the said castle, as are here figured ".

It was Gibraltar's first hospital, and remained on the same site serving the people of Gibraltar for almost four and a half centuries.

Many passed through Gibraltar on their way into exile in North Africa.

* 1621-Second battle of Gibraltar on which a Spanish squadron crushed the VOC at the strait of Gibraltar – Battle of Gibraltar ( 1621 )

* 1656-In a letter to Councillor General Montagu ( afterwards Earl of Sandwich ), General-at-sea and one of the Protector's personal friends, Cromwell mentioned the necessity of securing a permanent base at the entry of the Mediterranean, preferably Gibraltar ( the first suggestion for the occupation of Gibraltar as a naval base had been made at an English Council of War held at sea on 20 October 1625 ).

George Rooke, the commander of the Anglo-Dutch fleet that conquered Gibraltar on behalf of the Archduke Charles

This was the end of the Eleventh Siege of Gibraltar ( a map on the situation of attacking forces can be seen in )

The result was uncertain, with heavy losses on both sides, but the Spanish-French fleet was stopped and prevented from arriving at Gibraltar.

The Gibraltar wall was damaged, but French troops refused to go on until the arrival of de Tessé ( who arrived the day after ).

* 1705 2 August – The Archduke Charles stopped over in Gibraltar on his way to the territories of the Crown of Aragon.