* 1738 – Real Academia de la Historia (" Royal Academy of History ") is founded in Madrid.

Barcelona (,, ) is the capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, after Madrid, with a population of 1, 621, 537 within its administrative limits on a land area of.

To, the Toledo codex now kept in the National Library in Madrid, is the earliest collection and contains 129 songs.

It is the fourth largest stadium in Europe after Nou Camp in Barcelona, Wembley Stadium in London and Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid.

* 2006 – Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed.

* 1973 – The Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid.

He formed a close friendship with Martin Zapater at this time, and their correspondence from the 1770s to the 1790s is a valuable source for understanding Goya's early career at the court of Madrid.

Hagi is one of the few footballers to have played for both the Spanish rival clubs Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.

The earliest document mentioning a Barnabas gospel which is generally agreed to correspond with the one found in the two known manuscripts is reported to be contained in Morisco manuscript BNM MS 9653 in Madrid, written about 1634 by Ibrahim al-Taybili in Tunisia.

Similarly, standard Spanish is not based on the speech of Madrid, but on the one of educated speakers from more northerly areas like Castile and León.

A mosaic of tiles which depicts in puzzle form Picasso's great work Guernica, the original of which is currently on display at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.

Brundtland is also a member of the Club de Madrid, an independent organization of former leaders of democratic states, which works to strengthen democratic governance and leadership.

She is also a member of the Club of Madrid, an independent non-profit organization composed of 81 democratic former Presidents and Prime Ministers from 57 different countries.

There is special force in the " Death and the Maiden " panel of 1517 ( Basel ), in the " Weather Witches " ( Frankfurt ), in the monumental panels of " Adam " and " Eve " ( Madrid ), and in his many powerful portraits.

* 1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha ( Book One of Don Quixote ) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.

The only known original is held in the library of the monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial near Madrid in Spain.

A 1334 copy is held in the library of the Historical Academy of Madrid.

* 1879 – The Spanish Socialist Worker's Party is founded in Casa Labra Pub ( city of Madrid ) by the historical Spanish workers ' leader Pablo Iglesias.

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ( MNCARS ) is the official name of Spain's national museum of 20th-century art, located in Madrid ( informally shortened to the Museo Reina Sofía, Queen Sofia Museum.

The club is currently ranked third in the Deloitte Football Money League ( behind Real Madrid and Barcelona ).

* 1921 – Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.

Melilla is connected to the Spanish cities of Málaga, Madrid, Granada and Almería by air as well as to Málaga, Almería and Motril by ferry.

It is by far the busiest airport in Puerto Rico, with direct connections to most major cities in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Madrid, Spain.

On pages 190 and 191 of Owen Gingerich's monograph on Copernicus The Book Nobody Read, reference is made to an astronomical fresco in the main gallery of the Escorial Library, near Madrid, Spain, built 1567-84, which shows Dionysius the Areopagite observing an eclipse at the time of Christ's crucifixion.

* Ceilings, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ( New Residenz ) Würzburg, ( Royal Palace ) Madrid, ( Villa Pisani ) Stra, and others ; Wall scenes ( Villa Valmarana and Palazzo Labia )

Roman statue of Terpsichore from Hadrian's Villa, nowadays at the Prado Museum ( Madrid ).

Roman statue of Thalia from Hadrian's Villa, nowadays at the Prado Museum ( Madrid )

* Trofeo Villa de Madrid: 1

Other prominent public projects include the National Theatre of Catalonia in Barcelona, Madrid Congress Centre, the Arsenal Concert Hall in Metz, the Shepherd School of Music for Rice University in Houston, the Villa Cultural del Prado in Valladolid, and the Convention and Exhibition Centre in A Coruña.

He ransomed Leon VI, the last reigning king of Armenia, from the Mamluks and out of pity granted him the lifetime lordship of Madrid, Villa Real and Andújar in 1383.

It was later imitated by the Prix Abd-el-Tif and the Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algiers, 1907-1961, and later Prix d ' Indochine including a bursary to visit the École des Beaux-Arts de l ' Indochine in Hanoi, 1920-1939, and bursary for residence at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, 1929-present.

Besides numerous paintings in the Madrid gallery, the Ascension and St Joseph at Dresden, Perseus and Andromeda at Saint Petersburg, and the ceiling of the Villa Albani must be mentioned among his chief works.

The second marriage is of Lorenzo is to Virginia de Villa Franca, who is, " The Idol of her Parents, the admiration of Madrid, endowed by nature and education with every perfection of person and mind ".

Morientes ranks fourth on the Spanish all-time topscorer's list with 27 goals in 47 appearances, behind former Real Madrid teammate Raúl, former Valencia teammate Villa, and former Madrid captain Fernando Hierro ( who took the majority of Spain's free kicks and penalties ), although his goals-to-games ratio is higher than Raúl and Hierro.

In 1992, the band were finalists in the Villa de Madrid contest.

In 1992 the band was the finalist in the festival, " Concurso Villa de Madrid ".

Neighborhoods: El Rosal, Colorados, Café Madrid, Las Hamacas, Altos del Kennedy, Kennedy, Balcones del Kennedy, Las Olas, Villa Rosa ( sectores I, II y III ), Omagá ( sectores I y II ), Minuto de Dios, Tejar Norte ( sectores I y II ), Miramar, Miradores del Kennedy, El Pablón ( Villa Lina, La Torre, Villa Patricia, Sector Don Juan, Pablón Alto y Bajo ).

Vallecas is a neighborhood of Madrid composed of two districts: Puente de Vallecas ( population 240, 917 ) and Villa de Vallecas ( population 65, 162 ).

In the last years, the district of Vallecas Villa experienced an important enhancement with about 25. 000 new flats and houses called " PAU de Vallecas " or " Ensanche de Vallecas ", one of the biggest new areas in Madrid.

Artillery combat occurred only between the Covadonga and the Spanish ships Villa de Madrid and Blanca, as the other allied ships were unused due to a lack of coal and the rocky estuary.

He assisted his father in Würzburg 1751-3, decorating the famous stairwell fresco, in Vicenza at the Villa Valmarana in 1757, and in Madrid at the palace of Charles III from 1762-70.

Under the plaza along with the Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid ( Madrid City Cultural Centre ) lies a stop for a special shuttle that takes passengers to Barajas Airport.

For his administration see William Coxe, Memoirs of the Kings of Spain of the House of Bourbon ( London, 1815 ), but the only complete account of Ensenada is by Don Antonio Rodríguez Villa, Don Cenón de Somodevilla, Marqués de la Ensenada ( Madrid, 1878 ).