Canary Islands
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- Adopted 10 Aug 1982 Civil
Flag
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- Adopted 10 Aug 1982 State Flag
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Map
of Canary Islands
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Hear
National Anthem
"Marcha Real"
(Royal March)
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Hear
Local Anthem
"Himno de Canarias"
(Anthem of the Canary Islands)
Adopted 2 May 2003
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Constitution
(29 Dec 1978)
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Capitals (jointly):
Las Palmas
de Gran Canaria
& Santa Cruz de
Tenerife
(Santa Cruz de Tenerife
1822-1927; Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria 1480 - 1822;
Acatife 1448 - 1480;
Teguise 1425 - 1448;
Betancuria 1404 - 1425)
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Currency:
Euro (EUR);
to 1 Jan 2002: Spanish
Peseta (ESP)
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National
Holiday: 12 Oct (1492)
Fiesta Nacional de
España
(National Day)
(1958-87 Día de la Hispanidad)
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Local Holiday: 30
May (1983)
Día de Canarias
(Canary Islands Day)
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Population:
2,127,685 (2018)
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GDP: $54.73
billion (2010)
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Exports:
$N/A
Imports: $N/A
(included in Spain
figures)
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Ethnic
groups: 85.7%
Spaniards (including Canarian people
and Peninsulares), 14.3% foreign
nationals (mainly Germans,
British, and Moroccans) |
Total Police
Forces: N/A
Defense is the
Responsibility of Spain
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Religions:
majority Roman Catholic
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International
Organizations/Treaties: None |
Canary
Islands
Index
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Chronology
c.100 AD
Called the Fortunate Islands (insulis
Fortunatis) by
Romans, islands ruled by
native Guanches peoples.
14th
cent.
Frequently visited by Mallorcan ships.
Jul
1402
Juan de
Béthencourt conquers Fuerteventura,
Hierro,
and Lanzarote islands
and then proclaims
himself king, as a vassal of the
King of Castile.
15 Dec 1405
Canary Islands declared a protectorate
of Castile.
1406 -
1479
Islands claimed by Portugal (Ilhas
da Canárias).
1424
Failed Portuguese
invasion of Gran Canaria.
1434
Failed
Portuguese invasion of Gran Canaria.
15 Sep 1436
Papal Bull Romanus
pontifex awarded rights
over the
Canary Islands not already
colonized to Portugal.
6 Nov 1436
Papal Bull Romani
pontificis retracts
concession
granted to Portugal and
recognizes the claim of
Castile to the islands.
1448 -
1459
Lanzarote sold to
King of Portugal by Béthencourt
heirs.
15 Oct 1477
Ceded to rulers of Castile-Aragón by
Peraza's
heirs in the Treaty of
Sevilla.
4 Sep
1479
Sovereignty of Castile recognized by
Portugal in
the
Treaty of
Alcáçovas.
6 Mar
1480
Gran Canaria a colony of Castile (from
1556, of
the Spanish monarchy).
30 May
1481
Covenant of Calatayud between the
Kingdom of Castile
and
the Kingdom of the Canary Islands.
29 Apr 1483
Conquest of Gran Canaria
completed.
20 Nov
1488
Rebellion on La Gomera.
3 May
1493
Conquest of La Palma completed.
25 Dec 1495
Conquest of Tenerife completed.
7 Dec
1526
Real Audiencia de Canarias
created.
1569 -
1569
Moroccan occupation of Lanzarote.
1585
Ottoman Admiral Murat Reis temporarily
seizes
Lanzarote.
1586 -
1586
Moroccan occupation of Lanzarote.
Apr 1589
Captaincy-general of the Canary
Islands.
1595 - 1625
Re-divided into individual islands.
6 Oct 1595
English fleet under Capt. Drake
attacks Las Palmas.
13 Apr 1598
English fleet under Sir
George Clifford attacks
and plunders Lanzarote.
Jun 1599 - Jul 1599
Dutch fleet under
Peter van der Does attacks
and plunders
Las Palmas and La Gomera.
17-21 Sep
1617
Englishman
Sir Walter Raleigh plunders Lanzarote.
May 1618
Barbary pirates
Tabac Arráez and Suleiman Reis plunder
Lanzarote.
29 May
1625
Captaincy-general of the Canary
Islands (Capitanía
general
de Canarias)(restored).
20 Apr 1657
English attack
on treasure feet at Santa
Cruz de
Tenerife.
22-25 Jul 1797
Failed
U.K. assault on Santa Cruz de
Tenerife.
6 May 1808 - 11 Dec
1813 Remains loyal to deposed
Bourbón King Fernando VII.
27 Jan 1822 - 1 Oct
1823 Canary Islands briefly made
a province of Spain.
30 Nov
1833
Canary Islands (Islas
Canarias) a province of
Spain.
17 Mar 1852 - 3 Mar 1854
Canary Islands divided into two
administrations
Eastern Canary Islands (Canarias
Orientales) and
Western Canary Islands (Canarias
Occidentales).
6 Apr 1887
- 29 Aug 1934 Río
de Oro subordinated to
the captains-general
of Canary
Islands.
21 Sep
1927
Canary Islands divided into two
provinces of Spain:
Las
Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz
de
Tenerife.
18 Jul
1936
Nationalists take control
of the Canary Islands.
16 Aug
1982
Autonomous Community of the Canary
Islands
(Comunidad Autónoma Canaria).
30 May
1983
First session of the parliament of the
Canary Islands
held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
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Gran Canaria
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Tenerife
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Fuerteventura
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La
Gomera
and El Hierro |
Lanzarote
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Kings
1402 - Dec
1405
Juan de
Béthencourt
(b. c.1360 - d. 1422)
Dec 1405 - 1415
Maciot de Béthencourt
(b. c.1379 - d. 1454?)
1415 - Oct
1418
Pedro Barba de Campos
17 Oct 1418 - 1425
Enrique de Guzmán, conde
(d. 1425)
de
Niebla
14.. -
14..
Guillén Peraza I
14.. -
1444
Guillén Peraza II
1444 -
1476
Diego García de Herrera
Captains-general
Apr 1589 - 1594
Luis de La Cueva y Benavides, (b.
c.1550 - d. 1598)
señor de Bedmar
1595 -
1625
islands individually governed
Jul 1625 -
1626
Francisco González de Andía (b.
1576 - d. 1659)
Irrazábal y Zárate
1626 -
1629
Juan de Carvajal y Sande (acting)
(regente de la Audiencia)
15 Mar 1629 -
1634
Juan de Rivera y Zambrana
31 May 1634 - 27 Nov 1636 Iñigo de Brizuela
y Urbina (b. 1586 - d. 1636)
Nov 1636 - Jul
1637 Gabriel
de la Puebla y Escobedo
(acting)
Jul 1637 - May 1638 Juan
Cornejo (acting)
5 May 1638 -
1644 Luís
Fernández de Córdoba y Arce (b. 1593 - d. 1673)
Jul 1644 - 1650
Pedro Carrillo de Guzmán
Jun 1650 - 1659
Alfonso Dávila y Guzmán
(d. 1668)
Dec 1659 - 12 Aug 1660
Sebastián Hurtado de Corcuera (b. 1587 -
d. 1660)
y Gaviria
May 1661 - 19 May 1665
Jerónimo de Benavente y Quiñones
19 May 1665 - Feb 1666
Francisco Juan de Toledo, obispo (b. 1601 - d.
1672)
de Canarias
3 Feb 1666 - Dec 1670 Gabriel
Lasso de la Vega y (b. 1623 -
d. 1697)
Licques de Recourt, conde de
Puertollano
Jun 1667 - Dec 1668
Lorenzo Santos de San Pedro, (d.
1676)
Señor de
Baños
(acting for de la Vega)
Feb 1671 - Mar
1676 Juan de
Balboa y Mogrovejo
3 Jun 1677 -
1681 Jerónimo
de Velasco
Apr 1681 - 17 Sep 1684 Félix
Nieto de Silva, conde (b. 1635
- d. 1691)
de Guaro
9 May 1685 -
1689
Francisco Bernardo Varona
26 Jul 1689 -
1697
Antonio Eríl Vicentelo y
(b. 16.. - d. 1715)
Toledo, conde de Eríl y marqués
de Fuensagrada
Jun 1697 -
1701
Pedro de Ponte Llerena del Hoyo (b. 1624 -
d. 1705)
y Calderón, conde del Palmar
21 Jul 1701 - Aug 1705 Miguel
González de Otazo, (b.
16.. - d. 1705)
conde de
Comicurma
Aug 1709 - Nov
1705 José
de Roxas Ayala (acting)
Nov 1705 -
1709
Agustín de Robles y Lorenzana (b. c.1649 -
d. 1710)
16 Apr 1709 -
1713
Fernando Chacón Medina y Salazar (b. 16.. - d.
1723)
3 Mar 1713 -
1718
Ventura de Landaeta y Borna
Jul 1718 -
1719
José Antonio de Chaves y Osorio
19 Mar 1719 - 15 Mar 1722 Juan de Mur y
Aguirre
(b. 16.. - d. 1722)
1722 - 1723
Jaime de Villanueva (acting)
2 Feb 1723 -
1735
Lorenzo Fernández de
(b. 1665 - d. 1741)
Villavicencio y Cárdenes,
marqués
de Valhermoso
5 Jun 1735 - Dec 1740
Francisco José de Emparán
(b. 1676 - d. 1740)
1740 - 1741
Francisco Valenzuela (acting)
17 Jan 1741 -
1744
Andrés Bonito y Pignatelli
(Pignately), duque de Bonito
Jun 1744 - Sep 1745
José Masones de Lima y Sotomayor (b.
1692 - d. 1745)
Sep 1745 - Aug
1746 Luis
Mayony y Salazar
(d. 1746)
1746
Pedro Enriquez
de Ovideo (acting)
14 Sep 1746 - 1761
Juan de
Urbina
3 Jul 1761 - Jul
1764 Pedro Rodríguez Moreno y
Pérez
de Otero
Jul 1764 - Mar 1767
Domingo Bernardi Gómez
Rabelo (b. c.1706 - d. 1767)
1767 - 1768
Augustin Gabriel de Castillo
(acting)
1 Apr 1768 - 1774
Miguel López
y Fernández de (b. 1707 - d.
....)
Heredia
Sep 1775 - 1779
Eugenio
Fernández de Alvarado y (b. 1715 - d. 1780)
Perales Hurtado y Colomo,
marqués de los Tabalosos
20 May 1779 -
1784
Joaquín José Ibáñez Cuevas Valero
(b. 1710 - d. ....)
de Bernabé, marqués de la Cañada
Apr 1784 -
1789
Miguel de la Grúa Talamaca y (b.
c.1755 - d. 1812)
Branciforte, marqués de
Branciforte
1789 -
1791
José de Avellaneda
1791 -
1799
Antonio Gutiérrez de Otero y (b.
1729 - d. 1799)
Santallana
14 May 1799 -
1803
José de Perlasca
19 May 1803 - 1808
Fernando Cagigal de la Vega y (b.
1756 - d. 1824)
Martínez Niño de San Miguel y
Pacheco, marqués de Casa Cagigal
1808 - 1809
Carlos O'Donnell
Anethan
(b. 1768 - d. 1830)
18 Feb 1809 - 1810
Carlos Luján
30 Jan 1810 - 1810
Ramón de Carvajal y Castañeda
3 May 1810 - 1811
Diego de Cañas y Portocarrero,
(b. 1755 - d. 1823)
duque del Parque
5 Apr 1811 -
1820
Pedro Rodríguez de la
Buría (b. 1748 - d.
1823)
23 May 1820 -
1823
Juan José Ordovás
(b. 1760 - d. 1833)
27 Aug 1823 - 1823 Ramón
Polo
16 Oct 1823 -
1827
Isidoro Uriarte
27 Jan 1827 -
1834
Francisco Tomás Morales y Afonso (b. 1783 - d.
1844)
15 May 1834 - 13 Aug 1836 José Marrón
13 Aug 1836 - 17 Jan 1840 Juan Manuel Pereira y
Soto (b. 1779
- d. 18..)
Sánchez, marqués de la Concordia
17 Jan 1840 - 25 Feb 1840 José María Bremon
(acting)
25 Feb 1840 - 31 May 1840 Juan Zárate y Murga
31 May 1840 - 9 Dec 1840 Antonio Moreno
Zaldarriaga (b. c.1792 - d.
1854)
Dec 1840 - Mar
1841 Mariano
Ricafort Palacín y Abarca (b. 1776 - d. 1846)
18 Mar 1841 - 15 Apr 1842 Miguel de Araoz
15 Apr 1842 - 14 Jul 1842 Fausto del Hoyo (1st
time)(acting)
14 Jul 1842 - 2 Aug 1843 Jaime Carbó
2 Aug 1843 - 2 Oct 1843 Fausto del
Hoyo (2nd time)(acting)
2 Oct 1843 - Apr 1847 Fermín
de Salcedo
1 Apr 1847 - 14 Nov 1847 Segundo Ulibarri
14 Nov 1847 - 21 Nov 1850 Francisco Javier de
Ezpeleta (b. 1803 - d.
1869)
12 Dec 1850 - May 1852 Antonio
Ordóñez y Villanueva (b.
1790 - d. 18..)
4 May 1852 - Dec 1852 Eusebio
de Calonge y Fenollet (b. 1814 - d. 1873)
20 Dec 1852 - 1853 José
María de la Viña
23 Sep 1853 - 9 Aug 1854 Jaime Ortega y
Olleta (b.
1816 - d. 1860)
10 Dec 1854 - 1856 Agustín
Nogueras y Pitarque (b. 1786 - d.
1857)
1856
Pascual Alvarez (acting)
18 Oct 1856 - 12 Aug 1858 José Martínez y Luz de
Barredo (b. 1808 - d. 1879)
Tenaquero
15 Aug 1858 -
1861
Narciso de Ametller y de Cabrera (b. 1810 - d.
1877)
19 Sep 1861 - 1 Dec 1863 Mariano Rebagliato
y Pescetto (b. 1799 - d. 18..)
1 Dec 1863 - 1865
Joaquín Riquelme y Gómez
(b. 1812 - d. 1885)
25 Jun 1865 -
1866
Pedro de la Bárcena y Ponte
(b. 1802 - d. 18..)
6 Aug 1866 - 1867
Pascual del
Real y Reina (b. 1796
- d. 18..)
9 Jul 1868 -
1868
Vicente Talledo y Díez
(b. 1804 - d. 1890)
15 Oct 1868 -
1871
Luis Maria Serrano del Castillo (b. 1810 -
d. 1872)
4 Jul 1872 - Mar 1873
Carlos Palanca y Gutiérrez
(b. 1819 - d. 1896)
12 Jul 1873 -
1874
Federico Salcedo y San Román
15 Oct 1874 -
1875
José de Salazar y Real Rodríguez
3 Jan 1876 -
1877 Crispín
Ximénez de Sandoval
29 Jul 1877 - 24 Jan 1878 Florentino Melitón
Catalán López (b. 1821 - d. 1878)
de Prado
14 Feb 1878 - 1883
Valeriano Weyler i Nicolau, (b.
1838 - d. 1930)
duque de Rubí
26 Nov 1883 - 1884
Gabriel de Torres y
Jurado Laynez
17 Nov 1884 - 1885 José
Chinchilla y Díez de Oñate (b. 1839 - d. 1898)
11 Sep 1885 - 1887
Buenaventura Carbó y
Aloy (b.
1819 - d. 1888)
19 Jan 1887 -
1890
Adolfo Morales de los Ríos
27 Sep 1890 - 1891
Pedro de Cuenca y Díaz de Rábago (b. 1831 - d.
....)
11 Nov 1891 - 1893 José
López Pinto y Marín Reina
30 Aug 1893 - 22 Nov 1893 Federico Esponda y
Morell
(b. 1828 - d. 1894)
22 Nov 1893 -
1894
Francisco Girón y Aragón,
(b. 1838 - d. 1899)
duque de
Ahumada
6 Aug 1894 - 1897
Manuel Macías y
Casado
(b. 1845 - d. 1937)
13 Jan 1897 - 1897 José
Sánchez Gómez
14 Oct 1897 - Aug 1898 Mariano
Montero y Cordero
20 Aug 1898 - Apr 1899 Manuel
Delgado y Zulueta
(b. 1842 - d. 1915)
10 May 1899 -
1900
Enrique Bargés y Pombo
(b. 1824 - d. 1926)
19 Apr 1900 - Jan 1902 Ignacio
Pérez Galdós (1st time) (b. 1835 - d.
1905)
3 Jan 1902 - Mar
1903 Adolfo Rodríguez
Bruzón
30 Mar 1903 - 27 Nov 1905 Ignacio
Pérez Galdós (2nd time) (s.a.)
21 Dec 1905 - 22 May 1907 Tomás Bouza
Cebreiro
(b. 1838 - d. 1908)
22 May 1907 - Jul 1909 José
March y García de Mesa (b. 1842 -
d. 1919)
18 Aug 1909 - 10 Mar 1910 Vicente Martitegui y
Pérez de (b. 1843 - d. 1912)
Santa
María
1 Mar 1910 -
1911
Wenceslao Molíns y Lemaur
(b. 1843 - d. 1928)
13 Sep 1911 - 26 Jul 1915 Emilio March y García de
Mesa (b. 1844 - d. 1919)
26 Jul 1915 - 1915
Enrique Costés Bayona
10 Dec 1915 -
1916
Luis Mackenna y Benavides
23 Jul 1916 -
1918
Candído Hernández de Velasco (b.
1846 - d. 1918)
20 Sep 1918 - 1919
Carlos Palanca y Cañas
(b. 1857 - d. 1925)
1 Feb 1919 - 27 Jul 1923 Francisco Rodríguez
y Sánchez
Espinosa
27 Jul 1923 - Feb 1924 Alberto
María de Borbón y
(b. 1854 - d. 1939)
Castellví, duque de Santa
Elena
26 Feb 1924 - 11 Aug 1926 Leopoldo de Heredia y
Delgado (b. 1856 - d. 19..)
11 Aug 1926 - 3 Nov 1928 Antonio Vallejo
Vila
3 Nov 1928 - 21 Nov 1928 Jorge Fernández
Heredia y Adalid
21 Nov 1928 - 18 Apr 1931 José Rodríguez
Casademunt (b. 1870 - d.
1936)
18 Apr 1931 - Jun 1931 Ángel
Rodríguez del Barrio (b. 1876
- d. 1936)
16 Jun 1931 - 1936
Enrique de Salcedo Molinuevo (b.
1871 - d. 1936)
11 Jan 1936 - 1936
Joaquín Fanjul y Goñi
(b. 1880 -
d. 1936)
21 Feb 1936 - 18 Jul 1936 Francisco
Franco
Bahamonde
(b. 1892 - d. 1975)
19 Jul 1936 - 1936 Luís
Orgaz y Yoldi
(b. 1881 - d. 1946)
4 Sep 1936 - 1937
Ángel Dolla Lahoz
(b. 1872 - d. 1937)
20 Jan 1937 - 1937 Carlos
Guerra Zavala
25 Sep 1937 - 1939
Vicente Valderrama
Arias
(b. 1871 - d. 19..)
9 Jul 1939 - 1943
Ricardo Serrador Santés
(b. 1877 - d. 1943)
22 Jan 1943 - 2 Mar 1943 Eugenio Sanz de
Larín (interim)
2 Mar 1943 - 12 Jun 1951 Francisco García
Escámez e (b. 1893 - d.
1951)
Iniesta, marqués de Somosierra
22 Jun 1951 - Oct 1953 Carlos Martínez de
Campos y (b. 1887 - d. 1975)
Serrano,
duque de la Torre
9 Oct 1953 - Jun
1955 Miguel Rodrigo Martínez
(b. 1895 - d. 1968)
3 Jun 1955 - Sep 1956
Mohammed ben Mezián del Kasem (b.
1897 - d. 1975)
14 Sep 1956 - Apr 1959 José
María López Valencia (b.
1893 - d. 19..)
9 Apr 1959 - Sep 1961
Alfredo Erquicia
Aranda
(b. 1896 - d. 1978)
22 Sep 1961 - Nov 1962 Ramón
Gotarredona Prats (b.
1889 - d. 1968)
10 Nov 1962 -
1969 José
Héctor Vázquez
(b. 1903 - d. 1977)
4 Jul 1969 - 7 Jan 1972 José Angosto y
Gómez Castrillón (b. 1906 - d. 1979)
7 Jan 1972 - 25 Oct 1974 José María
Pérez de Lema y Tejero (b. 1908 - d. 1984)
25 Oct 1974 - Oct 1976
Ramón Cuadra Medina
(b. 1911? - d. 2001)
30 Oct 1976 -
1977
Tomás de Liniers y Pidal
(b. 1913 - d. 1987)
29 Oct 1977 -
1978
Mateo Prada
Canillas
(b. 1912 - d. 2005)
Civil governors (Intendants to
28 Dec 1849)
Jul 1808 - 1812
Juan Próspero del Sacramento de (b.
1754 - d. 18..)
Torres y Chirino
1812 - 1817
Francisco de Paula Paadín y Bravo
15 Jan 1813 - 29 May 1814 José Ángel
de Soverón (1st time)
(jefe politico)
1 Jul 1817 - Jul 1819 Felipe de
Sierra y Pambley (b. 1774 -
d. 1823)
Jul 1819 - 1820
Agustín Gómez
May 1820 - c.1821 Juan
Pablo Barreneche
23 May 1820 - 4 Mar 1822 José Ángel
de Soverón (2nd time)
(jefe politico)
c.1821 - 1822
Juan Bautista Antequera
4 Jul 1822 - 1 Mar 1823 Juan Ramírez
de Cárdenas
(jefe politico)
1 Mar 1823 - 5 Nov 1823 Rodrigo
Fernández de Castañón
1823 - 1824
Santiago Vicente de Lés y Aguirre
17 Feb 1824 - 1827
Fermín Martínez de Balmaseda
1827 - 1829
Diego de Aguirre y Rosales
13 Aug 1829 – Jul 1831 Manuel
Genaro de Villota (b.
1767 - d. c.1847)
12 Jan 1832 - 183.
Domingo Jiménez de Castro
14 May 1834 – 6 Jul 1834 José Bérriz
de Guzmán
(subdelegado de policía)
6 Jul 1834 - 30 Apr 1836 José Marrón
(comandante general de Canarias)
30 Apr 1836 - 1836
Mariano
Cadenas (interim)
Aug 1836 - 17 Jan 1840 Juan Manuel
Pereira, marqués de (b. 1779 - d. 18..)
la Concordia Española del Perú
(comandante general de Canarias)
28 Oct 1836 - 1838 José
Manuel Díez Imbrechts (b.
1787 - d. 1849)
1838 - Oct 1839
Buenaventura de Cordoba
17 Jan 1840 – 16 Feb 1840 José María
Bremón (interim)
16 Feb 1840 - 31 May 1840 Juan
de Zárate y Murga (acting)
18 Mar 1841 – 15 Apr 1842 Miguel de Araoz
(comandante general de Canarias)
15 Apr 1842 – 1842
Tomás Díaz Bermudo (interim)
11 Jul 1842 – 20 Mar 1843 Epifanio Mancha
(interim)
20 Mar 1843 - 3 Aug 1843 Pedro Mariano
Ramírez
3 Aug 1843 - 15 Sep 1843 Fausto del Hoyo
15 Sep 1843 – 3 Oct 1843 José Martínez y
Martín
3 Oct 1843 - 16 Jan 1844 Trino González de
Quijano (b. 1807 - d.
1854)
16 Jan 1844 - 20 Apr 1847
Miguel Díaz
20 Apr 1847 - 22 May 1847 Ignacio Peraza de Ayala
y del (b. 1786 - d. 1856)
Hoyo-Solorzano (1st time)
22 May 1847 - 19 Feb 1848 Bartolomé
Velázquez Gaztelu y (b. 1812 - d.
18..)
Angulo
3 Mar 1848 - 28 Mar 1848 Bartolomé Cifra
28 Mar 1848 - 28 Dec 1849 Juan Sáez
de Arroyal
28 Dec 1849 - Jan 1850
Ignacio Peraza de Ayala y del (s.a.)
Hoyo-Solorzano (2nd time)
31 Jan 1850 - 29 Aug 1850 Antonio Halleg (1st
time)
29 Aug 1850 - 23 Feb 1851 Manuel Rafael de Vargas
23 Feb 1851 - 21 Aug 1851 Antonio Halleg (2nd
time)
22 Aug 1851 - 25 Apr 1852 Francisco González Ferro
Mar 1852 - 1854
José Joaquín de
Monteverde (b.
1803 - d. 1873)
(civil governor of Canarias Occidentales)
25 Apr 1852 - 14 Jun 1852 Antonio Ordóñez
Villanueva
14 Jun 1852 - Mar 1853 Eusebío
Calonge y Fenollet (s.a.)
Mar 1853 - 21 Oct 1853 José María
Laviña
21 Oct 1853 - 9 Aug 1854 Jaime Ortega y
Olleta
(b. 1816 - d. 1860)
(comandante general de Canarias)
9 Aug 1854 - 30 Aug
1854 Gregorio Suárez Morales
30 Aug 1854 - 30 Oct 1854 Francisco Belmonte
y Vilches
(1st
time) (interim)
30 Aug 1854 - 4 Sep 1856 Pedro García
Arredondo
4 Sep 1856 - 10 Dec 1856 Francisco Belmonte
y Vilches
(2nd time) (interim)
10 Dec 1856 - 10 Nov 1857 Félix Fanlo y Oliván
14 Nov 1857 - 26 Nov 1857 Francisco Sepúlveda
Ramos
(b. 1819 - d. 1895)
27 Dec 1857 - 27 Jan 1858 Gregorio Pesquera
27 Jan 1858 - 1 Jul 1858 José Martínez
Tenaguero
(b. 1802 - d. 1879)
1 Jul 1858 - 22 Jan 1859 Narciso Ametller y
Cabrera (b. 1810 - d.
1877)
Jan 1859 - Feb 1859 Eduardo
Fernández San Roman (b.
1818 - d. 1887)
(acting)
19 Feb 1859 - 19 Aug 1861 Joaquín Ravenet y
Marentes (b. 1808 - d. 1870)
11 Sep 1861 - 8 Jun 1863 Diego Vázquez y
Carranza
11 Jun 1863 - 18 Jan 1864 José Francés de Alaiza
18 Jan 1864 - 20 Apr 1864 José Joaquín de
Monteverde
(interim)
20 Apr 1864 - 27 Oct 1864 Pablo Castro y Juan
27 Oct 1864 - 22 May 1865 Ramón Fernández de
Zendrera
22 Oct 1865 - 10 Mar 1866 José Cabezas de Herrera
(d. 1889)
19 Mar 1866 - 20 Jul 1866 Manuel Martos Rubio
21 Jul 1866 - 6 Oct 1868 Alfonso del Hoyo y
Román
6 Oct 1868 - 24 Oct 1868 Juan Valls y Puig
Samper
24 Oct 1868 - 17 Feb 1869 Camilo Benítez de Lugo y
Medranda (b. 1824 - d. 1873)
17 Apr 1869 - 9 Dec 1869 Eduardo Garrido
Estrada
9 Dec 1869 - 21 Apr 1870 Domingo de Castro
Chirino
21 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1871 Bonifacio Carrasco
21 Jan 1871 - 9 Jun 1871 José
Álvarez de Sotomayor
9 Jun 1871 - 21 Sep 1871 Rafael Bethencourt
y Mendoza
(1st time)
21 Sep 1871 - 21 Oct 1871 Emilio Nieto y Pérez
21 Oct 1871 - 6 Jun 1872 Rafael Bethencourt
y Mendoza
(2nd time)
6 Jun 1872 - 6 Nov 1872 Eugenio Selles
y Ángel
11 Nov 1872 - 11 Mar 1873 Pedro Mariano Ramírez
Atenza
21 Mar 1873 - 7 Oct 1873 Miguel Villalba
Hervás
(b. 1837 - d. 1899)
27 Oct 1873 - 23 Jan 1874 Juan Quirós de los
Ríos
(d. 1894)
7 Jan 1874 – 21 Feb 1874 Rafael Bethencourt
y Mendoza
(3rd time)
21 Feb 1874 - 30 Dec 1874 Mateo Gamundi
13 Jan 1875 - 7 Dec 1879 Vicente Clavijo y
Pló
7 Dec 1879 - 5 Feb 1881 Ricardo
Gutiérrez de Salamanca (b. 1843 - d.
19..)
y de la
Cámara (1st time)
20 Feb 1881 - 20 Sep 1883 Tomás de Lara y
Calzadilla
20 Nov 1883 - 6 Feb 1884 José Joaquín Pérez
de Rozas y
Campuzano
6 Feb 1884 - 6 Aug 1885 Ricardo
Gutiérrez de Salamanca (s.a.)
y de la Cámara (2nd time)
21 Aug 1885 - 20 Nov 1885 Eduardo Zamora y
Caballero (b. 1835 - d. 1899)
(1st time)
25 Nov 1885 - 17 Dec 1885 Buenaventura Carbo
17 Dec 1885 - 5 Jan 1886 José Pineda y
Morales (1st time)
(acting)
5 Jan 1886 - 4 Jun 1886 Rafael Sarthou
y Calvo (b.
1855 - d. 1920)
20 Apr 1887 - 20 Jul 1887 Arturo Zancada y
Conchillos (b. 1847 - d. 1912)
20 Jul 1887 - 5 Feb 1887 Leandro Antolín
Ruíz Martínez (d. 1939)
20 Apr 1887 - 2 Oct 1887 Arturo Zancada
20 Oct 1887 - 4 Jul 1890 Arturo Antón
7 Jul 1890 - 2 Jul 1892 Eduardo Zamora
y Caballero (s.a.)
(2nd
time)
31 Jul 1892 - 3 Aug 1892 José Hierro y
Alarcón
3 Aug 1892 - 1 Jan 1893 Martin
Rodríguez Peraza (acting)
1 Jan 1893 - 15 Jul 1893 Julián Settier y
Aguilar
2 Aug 1893 - 1 Dec 1893 Saturníno
Vargas Machuca
12 Dec 1893 - 3 Mar 1895 Luis Felipe García
Marchante
21 Apr 1895 - 26 Sep 1897 Antonio Castañón y Faes
6 Oct 1897 - 2 Nov 1897 José Pineda
Morales (2nd time)
(acting)
2 Nov 1897 - 4 Jan 1898 Francisco
Manzano y
Alfaro (d.
1928)
4 Jan 1898 - 3 Feb 1898 José Pineda
Morales (3rd time)
(acting)
3 Feb 1898 - 30 Jul 1898 José de Sanmartín
1898
José
Pineda Morales (4th time)
(acting)
6 Sep 1898 - 4 Feb 1899 Enrique de
Ureña y Barthe
21 Mar 1899 - 2 Jan 1901 Francisco Maldonado
y Entrena (b. 1852 - d. 1902)
18 Feb 1901 - 4 Apr 1901 Manuel Luengo y
Prieto (acting)
4 Apr 1901 - 5 Jul 1901 Bernardo
(Bernat) Amer y Pons (b. 1853 -
d. 1921)
20 Aug 1901 - 20 Aug 1902 Ramón de Lorite y
Savater
(b. 1850 - d. 1907)
18 Sep 1902 - 30 Oct 1902 Juan Sáenz
Marquina (1st time)
21 Dec 1902 - 3 Jun 1905 Joaquín Santos y
Ecay (1st time) (b. c.1860 - d. 1924)
9 Jul 1905 - 29 Jan 1906 Juan Sáenz Marquina
(2nd time)
1 Mar 1906 - 8 Jul 1906 Ramón Ledesma
Hernández
8 Jul 1906 - 14 Jul 1906 José María Carballo
(acting)
14 Jul 1906 - 9 Aug 1906 Pío Laguía
9 Aug 1906 - 15 Oct 1906 Sinibaldo Gutiérrez
Más (b. 18.. - d.
1907)
18 Nov 1906 - 18 Dec 1906 Ignacio Martínez de
Campos
18 Dec 1906 - 1 Feb 1907 Manuel Benítez y
Parodi (b. 1845 - d.
1911)
5 Feb 1907 - 4 Nov 1909 Joaquín Santos
y Ecay (2nd time) (s.a.)
2 Dec 1909 - 19 Mar 1910 Antonio Eulate y
Fery (1st time) (b. 1845 - d. 1932)
20 Mar 1910 - 17 Jul 1910 Rafael Comenge y Dalmau
(b. 1865 - d. 1934)
15 Aug 1910 - 10 Apr 1913 Antonio Eulate y Fery
(2nd time) (s.a.)
4 Apr 1913 - 27 Oct 1913 Tomás Torres
Guerrero
24 Nov 1913 - 25 Jul 1914 Gonzálo de Segovia y
Ardizone, (b. 1837 - d. 1925)
conde de
Casa Segovia (1st time)
9 Aug 1914 - 11 Dec 1915 José Senteño y
Anchorena
24 Dec 1915 - 10 Jun 1917 Francisco Cabrerizo y
García
(1st time)
9 Jul 1917 - 29 Nov 1917 Javier Bores y
Romero
8 Dec 1917 - 16 Apr 1918 Francisco Cabrerizo
y García
(2nd time)
1 May 1918 - 27 Feb 1919 Joaquín Santos y
Ecay (3rd time) (s.a.)
20 Mar 1919 - 23 Apr 1919 José Boente
1 May 1919 - 1 Aug 1919 Gonzálo
de Segovia y Ardizone, (s.a.)
conde de Casa Segovia (2nd time)
19 Aug 1919 - 4 Oct 1919 Luís Jiménez
Canga-Argüelles (b. 1880 - d. 1943)
20 Oct 1919 - 30 Oct 1920 Luís Richi y
Molero
(d. 1935)
11 Nov 1920 - 7 Sep 1921 Ernesto García de
Velasco
9 Oct 1921 - 4 Dec 1922 Ceferino Luís
Sanz y Matamoros (d. 1968)
31 Dec 1922 - 15 May 1924 Casimiro Torres y
Sánchez-Somoza (b. 1864 - d. 1937)
9 Jun 1924 - 4 Feb 1925 Sebastián
Ramos Serrano
25 Feb 1925 - 20 Jul 1926 Domingo Villar Grangel
(b. 1882 - d.
1933)
7 Aug 1926 - 5 Oct 1927 José Domínguez
Manresa
5 Oct 1927 - 14 Apr 1978 the governors of
Gran Canaria
and Tenerife
Presidents of the Junta
14 Apr 1978 - 9 Jun 1979 Alfonso
Soriano Benítez de Lugo (b.
1936)
UCD
9 Jun 1979 - 9 Jun 1980
Fernando Bergasa
Perdomo
(b. 1938)
UCD
(1st time)
9 Jun 1980 - 12 Jun 1981 Vicente
Álvarez
Pedreira
(b. 1933 - d. 2002) UCD
12 Jun 1981 - Jun 1982
Fernando Bergasa
Perdomo
(s.a.)
UCD
(2nd time)
Jun 1982 - 29 Dec 1982
Francisco Javier Ucelay Sabina (b.
1944 - d. 2001) UCD
Presidents of the Government
29 Dec 1982 - 30 Jul 1987 Jerónimo Saavedra
Acevedo
(b.
1936)
PSOE
(1st time)
30 Jul 1987 - 28 Dec 1988 Francisco
Fernando Fernández (b.
1943)
CDS
Martín
28 Dec 1988 - 11 Jul 1991 Lorenzo Olarte
Cullén
(b.
1932)
CDS
11 Jul 1991 - 2 Apr 1993 Jerónimo
Saavedra
Acevedo
(s.a.)
PSOE
(2nd time)
2 Apr 1993 - 16 Jul 1999 Manuel
Antonio Hermoso Rojas (b.
1935)
CC
16 Jul 1999 - 8 Jul 2003 Román
Rodríguez
Rodríguez
(b.
1956)
CC
8 Jul 2003 - 13 Jul 2007 Adán Pablo
Martín
Menis
(b. 1943 - d. 2010) CC
13 Jul 2007 - 9 Jul 2015 Paulino Rivero
Baute
(b. 1955) CC
9 Jul 2015
-
Fernando Clavijo Batlle
(b.
1971)
CC
Party abbreviations: CC = Coalición
Canaria (Canary Coalition, Canary Is. nationalist and
regionalist, center-right, est.Mar 1993); PSOE
= Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Socialist Worker's
Party of Spain, social-democratic, est.4 May 1879, banned
1939-1977); Mil = Military;
- Former parties: CDS
= Centro Democrático y Social (Democratic and Social
Center, social-liberal, reformist, 29 Jul 1982-2006,
merged into PP); UCD = Unión Centro
Democrático (Union of the Democratic Center,
social-democratic, center-right, 3 May 1977-18 Feb 1983)
Provinces
Gran Canaria
Adopted 26 Apr 1989
|
6 Mar
1480
Gran Canaria a colony of Castile (from 1556 of Spain).
29 Apr 1483
Conquest of Gran Canaria completed.
1589 - 1595
Part of Captaincy-general of Canary Islands.
1625
Part of Captaincy-general of Canary Islands.
Oct 1868 - Nov
1868 Junta
superior de gobierno de Las Palmas administers
Gran Canaria.
27 Jan 1822
Part of Canary Islands province of Spain.
17 Mar 1852 - 3 Mar 1854
Canary Islands divided into two provinces (Gran
Canaria [incl.
Lanzarote, Fuerteventura] and
Tenerife).
21 Sep
1927
Canary Islands divided into two provinces of Spain
(Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de
Tenerife).
Governors
6 Mar 1480 -
1491
Pedro de Vera
1491 -
1494
Francisco de Maldonaldo
1495 - Dec
1497
Alonso Fajardo
(d. 1497)
1498 - 1501
Lope Sánchez de Valenzuela
Apr 1502 - Mar 1503
António de Torres
4 Jul 1503 - 4 Jun 1504
Alonso Escudero
1504 -
1517
Lope de Sosa y Mesa
1517 -
1518
Pedro Suárez de Castilla (1st time)
1518 -
1520
Fernán Pérez de Guzmán
1520 -
1521
Bernardino de Anaya
1521 -
1523
Pedro Suárez de Castilla (2nd time)
1523 -
1526
Diego de Herrero
1526 -
1529
Martín Hernández Cerón (1st time)
1529 -
1531
Bernardo del Herrero
1532 -
1535
Martín Hernández Cerón (2nd time)
1535 -
1536
Agustín de Zurbarán (1st time)
1536 -
1538
Bernardino de Ledesma
1538 -
1540
Juan Ruíz de Legarte
1540 -
1543
Agustín de Zurbarán (2nd time)
1543 -
1546
Alonso del Corral
1546 -
1549
Juan Ruíz de Miranda
1549 -
1553
Rodrigo Manrique de Acuña (1st time)
1553 -
1555
Luis Serrano de Vigil
1555 -
1557
Rodrigo Manrique de Acuña (2nd time)
1557 -
1558
Francisco Metía Márquez y Pedrosa
1556 -
1562
Juan Pacheco de Benavides
1562 - 1568
Diego de Águila y Toledo
1568 -
1571
Pedro Rodríguez de Herrera
1571 -
1575
Juan Alonso de Benavides
1575 -
1578
Diego de Melgarejo
1579 -
1584
Martín de Benavides
1584 -
1586
Tomás de Cangas
1586 -
1589
Álvaro de Acosta
1589 - 1595
Suppressed
1595 -
1599
Alonso de Alvorado y Ulloa
1599 -
1601
Antonio Pamacho Moso
1601 -
1607
Jerónimo de Valderrama y Tovar
1607 -
1612
Luis de Mendoza
1612 -
1615
Francisco de la Rúa
1615 -
1621
Fernando Osorio
1621 -
1624
Pedro de Barrionuevo y Melgoza
1624 -
1625
Gabriel Frías de Lara
Subgovernors of Gran Canaria
1852 - 1854
Rafael de Muro y Colmenares
1854 - 1856
post abolished
1856
José de
Villasante
1856 -
1857
Antonio López
Botas
(b. 1818 - d. 1888)
c.1858/59
Francisco Belmonte
1859? - 1861?
Rafael de Muro y
Colmenares, (b. 1821 - d. 1892)
marqués de Someruelos
c.1861
Gregorio Mijares
28 Feb 1861 - 1863
Salvador Muro y Colmenares
(b. 18.. - d. 1908)
c.1864
Joaquín Buissán
c.1865
Camilo Benítez de Lugo
(b. 1824 - d. 1873)
1866 - Oct 1869
Manuel López Fariñas (1st time)
Sep 1869 - Oct 1869 Pedro
Goiri
1869 - Jan
1871
Manuel López Fariñas (2nd time)
Jan 1871 - Oct 1871
Tomás de Lara y Calzadilla
Jun 1872 - 1872
Jerónimo Falcón (1st time)
6 Jul 1872 - 6 Nov 1872 Eugenio
Sellés, marqués de Gerona (b. 1844 - d. 1926)
1873
Juan Padilla
1873
Jerónimo Falcón (2nd time)
1873 - Oct 1873
José María Pulido
Oct 1873 - 1874
Emilio Álvarez del Cueto
23 Jan 1874 - Jan
1875 Antonio del Castillo
Olivares (b. 1841 - d. 1914)
Jan 1875 - 21 Mar 1875 Juan del Castillo
Westerling (b. 1813 - d.
1900)
21 Mar 1875 - 7 Oct 1875 Eduardo Zamora
Caballero
7 Oct 1875 - Jun 1876 Alejandro
Salazar
Jun 1876 - 1882
Agustín María Bravo de Laguna (b.
1840 - d. 1921)
y Joven de Salas
Governors of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
26 Oct 1927 - 1929
Antonio Marín Acuña
6 May 1929 -
1930
Mariano Cáceres Martínez
16 Mar 1930 -
1931
Luis de León y García
15 Apr 1931 -
1932
Bernardino Valle García
4 Feb 1932 - 1933
José Pérez Molina
(d. 1948)
PRR
22 Feb 1933 - 1933 José de
Guivelondo Mendezona
Mil
6 Sep 1933 - 1933
Ernesto Vega de la Iglesia y
(b. 1894 - d. 1939) PRRS
Manteca
20 Sep 1933 - 1935 Arturo
Ormenta Tierno
PRR
26 Dec 1935 - 1936 José
Nofre Jesús
(b. 1894 - d. 1945) LC
24 Feb 1936 -
1936
Nicolás Díaz Saavedra
12 Mar 1936 - 1936 Manuel
Ramos Vallecillo
IR
14 May 1936 - 1936 Ramón
Rodríguez Trujillo
7 Jun 1936 - 1936
Antonio Boix Roig
(d. 1936)
IR
18 Jul 1936 - 1936 Gonzalo
Fernández de Castro
19 Jul 1936 - Aug 1936 Jesús Ferrer
Gimeno
18 Aug 1936 - Oct 1936 Juan Egea Urraco
(b. 1872 - d. 1942)
6 Oct 1936 - 1937
José Cortés López
(b. 1883 -
d. 19..)
31 Aug 1937 - 30 Jun 1939 Antonio García
Lopez
9 Sep 1939 - 1944
Plácido Álvarez Buylla y
López- (b. 1893 - d. 1980)
Villamil
10 Jan 1945 - 1946
Fermín Zelada de Andrés-Moreno (b. 1912 -
d. 1997)
24 Jan 1946 -
1947
José María Olazábal Zaldumbide (b. 1915 -
d. 1946)
13 Feb 1947 - 1948
José María Olagüe Arnedo
(b. 1900 - d.
....)
24 Aug 1948 -
1951
José García Hernández
(b. 1915 - d. ....)
1951
Matias Vega Guerra
(b. 1905 - d. 1989)
8 Nov 1951 - 17 Sep 1954 Evaristo Martín
Freire (b.
1904 - d. 1972)
27 Sep 1954 - 2 Feb 1956 Santiago Guillén
Moreno
20 Feb 1956 - 1960
Honorato Martín Cobos Laguera
(b. 1903 - d. 1965)
11 Apr 1960 - 16 Apr 1966 Antonio Avendaño
Porrúa (b. 1917 -
d. 2010)
6 May 1966 - 1972
Alberto Fernández Galar
6 Oct 1972 - 29 Mar 1974 Federico Gerona
de la Figuera (b. 1925 - d. 2013)
29 Mar 1974 -
1975
Enrique Martínez Cañavate y (b.
1929)
Moreno
4 Aug 1975 -
1976
Salvador Escandell
Cortés
(b. 1918 - d. 1988)
21 Jun 1976 - Jul 1977 Francisco
Laina García
(b. 1936)
28 Jul 1977 - Jul 1980 Manuel
Fernández Escandón (b.
1929 - d. 2007)
26 Jul 1980 - 30 Dec 1982 Juan José Barco
Jiménez
Presidents of the Gran Canaria Cabildo
Insular
30 Mar 1974 - Jul 1979 Lorenzo Olarte
Cullén
(b. 1932)
UCD
1979 - 1982
Fernando Giménez Navarro
(b. 1928 - d. 2007)
UCD
1982 - 1983
Juan Andrés Melián García
(b. 1934 - d. 2017) UCD
1983 - 1991
Carmelo Artiles Bolaños
(b. 1945 - d. 2011)
PSOE
1991 - 1995
Pedro Lezcano Montalvo
(b. 1920 - d. 2002)
ICAN
1995 - 9 Jul 1999
José Macías Santana
(b. 1925 - d. 2016) PP
9 Jul 1999 - 19 Jun 2003 María Eugenia
Márquez
(b. 1949) PP
Rodríguez (f)
19 Jul 2003 - 9 Jul 2007 José Manuel
Soria López
(b. 1958) PP
9 Jul 2007 - 11 Jun 2011 José Miguel Pérez
García (b. 1957)
PSOE
11 Jun 2011 - 20 Jun 2015 José Miguel Bravo de
Laguna (b. 1944)
PP
Bermúdez
20 Jun 2015
-
Antonio Morales Méndez
(b. 1956)
NC
Party abbreviations: CC
= Coalición Canaria (Canary Coalition, Canary
Is. nationalist and regionalist, center-right,
est.Mar 1993); NC = Nueva Canarias
(New Canary Islands, nationalist and
regionalist, social democratic, est.20 Feb
2005); PP = Partido Popular
(People's Party, conservative, est.1989); PSOE
= Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Socialist Worker's
Party of Spain, social-democratic, est.1879); Mil
= Military;
- Former parties:
ICAN = Iniciativa Canaria
Nacionalista (Canary National Initiative,
leftist, Canary Islands nationalist, 1991-1993, merged
into CC); IR =
Izquierda Republicana (Republican Left, ex-Unión
Republicana, republican, anti-clerical,
1934-1959); LC = Lliga
Catalana (former Lliga Regionalista,
1901-1936); PRR =
Partido Republicano Radical (Radical Republican Party,
republican, liberal, 1908-1936); PRRS
= Partido Republicano Radical
Socialista (Radical Republican Socialist
Party, republican, social-democratic, 1929-1934);
UCD = Unión Centro Democrático (Union
of the Democratic Center, social-democratic,
center-right, 3 May 1977-18 Feb 1983)
Fuerteventura
Adopted 11 Nov 1998
|
30 Oct 1837
Incorporated into Spanish crown
possessions, part of Gran Canaria.
Lords (title Señor/Señora de Fuerteventura
[Lord/Lady of Fuerteventura])
1477 -
bf.1509
Pedro Fernández de Saavedra y
Mendoza
"el Viejo"
1509 - 154.
Fernán Arias de Saavedra y
Herrera "el Bueno" (el Mariscal)
1544/48 - Dec 1574
Gonzalo I Arias de Saavedra y
(b. 1484 - d. 1574)
Cabrera
Dec 1574 - 15..
Gonzalo II Arias de Saavedra
y Muxica
(or Mojica)
15.. - 1601
Fernando Arias de
Saavedra (d. 1601)
15.. - 15..
María de la O Muxica y
Herrera
(f) -Regent
(d. bf.1592)
1601 - 1624
Andrés Lorenzo Arias de Saavedra
(d. 1624)
(= Andrés
Lorenzo Herrera de Mendoza)
- jointly
with -
1601 - 16..
María de Muxica Arias de
Saavedra
(f)
1624 - 1667
Fernando Arias de Saavedra
(d. 1674)
- jointly
with -
1624 - 1630
Gonzalo Arias de Saavedra
3 May 1667 - 14 Nov 1704 Fernando Mathias
Arias de Saavedra(b. 16.. - d. 1704)
1704 - 21 Feb 1706
Francisco Alejandro Bautista
(b. 1678 - d. 1706)
Benítez
de Lugo Interian del
Castillo
21 Feb 1706 - 17 Nov 1771 Francisco Bautista
Benítez de (b. 1697 - d. 1771)
Lugo
Arias de Saavedra
17 Nov 1771 - 8 Jul 1806 Francisco Bautista
II Benítez de (b. 1735 - d. 1806)
Lugo
Arias de Saavedra y Ponte
8 Jul 1806 - 26 Jan 1816 Francisco Bautista
III Benítez (b. 1782 - d. 1816)
de Lugo
y Lugo Viña
26 Jan 1816 - 30 Oct 1837 Elena Sebastiana Benítez
de Lugo (b. 1816 - d. 1856)
Arias de
Saavedra y
Urtusáustegui (f)
Gobernadores politico-militares perpetuos de
Fuerteventura
19 Nov 1708 - 1733 Pedro
Sánchez Dumpiérrez (b.
1659 - d. 1733)
1733 - 1741
José Sánchez
Dumpiérrez (b. 1684 -
d. 1741)
25 Sep 1742 - 1762
Melchor de Cabrera
Béthencourt
Dumpiérrez
(b. 1697 - d.
1762)
10 Jan 1764 - 1766 Ginés de
Cabrera Béthencourt
(b. 1723 - d. 1766)
Dumpiérrez
25 Jun 1766 - 3 Dec 1828 Agustín de Cabrera
Béthencourt (b. 1743 - d.
1828)
Sánchez
Dumpiérrez
3 Jun 1829 - 31 Dec 1833 Francisco Manrique
de Lara del (b. 1765 - d. 1833)
del
Castillo
22 Jan 1834 - 1870
Cristobál Manrique de Lara
y (b. 1800 - d. 1870)
Cabrera
Presidents of the Fuerteventura
Cabildo Insular
1979 - 1987
Gerardo Mesa Noda
(b. 1935)
AM
1987 - 1995
José Juan Herrera
Velázquez (b.
1945)
AM
(1st time)
1995 - 1999
Ildefonso Chacón
Negrín
(b. 1939 - d. 2008) IF
1999 - 16 Jun 2003 José Juan
Herrera Velázquez (s.a.)
AM:1995 CC
(2nd time)
16 Jun 2003 - Jun 2015
Mario Cabrera González
(b. 1963)
CC
Jun 2015 -
Marcial Morales Martin
(b. 1958)
CC
Party abbreviation: CC
= Coalición Canaria (Canary Coalition, Canary Is.
nationalist and regionalist, center-right,
est.Mar 1993);
- Former parties: AM
= Asamblea Majorera (Majoreran
Assembly, Fuerteventura regionalist, 1977-1995,
merged into CC); IF = Independientes de
Fuerteventura
Lanzarote
Adopted 29 Jul 1964
|
1485
Lanzarote lordship (incl.
Allegranza, Graciosa, Lobos,
and Santa
Clara islands).
15 Jul 1825
Incorporated into Spanish crown
possessions, part of Gran Canaria.
Rulers (title Señor/Señora de Lanzarote [Lord/Lady
of Lanzarote])
1485 -
af.1533
Sancho de Herrera y Ayala
153. - 15..
Constanza Sarmiento de Herrera (f)
+ Pedro
Hernandez de Saavedra
"el
Mozo"
1567 -
1598
Agustín I de Herrera y Rojas (b.
1537 - d. 1598)
15.. - 1598
Catalina Escobar (f) -Regent
1598 -
1631
Agustín II de Herrera y Rojas (b. 1594 -
d. 1631)
1598 - 21 Nov 1621 Mariana
Enríquez Manrique de la
Vega (f)
-Regent
1631 -
1632
Agustín III de Herrera y Rojas (b. 1625 -
d. 1632)
1632 - 24 Nov 1661 Luisa
Bravo de Guzmán (f) (d.
1661)
1661
Fulgencio Bravo de Guzmán
(d. 1665)
1661 -
1696
Juan Francisco, duque de Estrada (b. 1644 - d.
1696)
1696 - 170.
Manuel, duque de Estrada
(b. 1680 - d. 170.)
170. - 22 Sep 1718
Leonor de Estrada (f)
(b. 1705 - d. 1718)
1718 -
1729
Vacant
29 Nov 1729 - 1736
Martín Pedro de Castejón Belvís
(b. 1663 - d. 1736)
e
Ibáñez, marqués de Velamazán
1736 -
1752
Martín Nicolas de Castejón e (b.
1690 - d. 1752)
e Ibáñez
de Segovia, marqués
de
Velamazán
1752 - 24 Aug 1764
Martín Miguel de Castejón y
(b. 1728 - d. 1764)
Dávila,
marqués de Velamazán
1764 -
1806
María del Pilar de
Castejón y (b. 1750 - d. 1806)
Silva (f)
- jointly with -
1764 - 1765
Martín Pedro de Castejón y Silva (b.
1690 - d. 1765)
1806 -
1815
Ana María de Castejón y Dávila (f)(d. 1815)
1815 - 15 Jul 1825
María Luisa de Silva y Castejón(f)(b. 1765 - d.
1825)
+ Juan Bautista
María de Queralt (b. 1786 - d. 1865)
y de
Pinós, conde de Santa Coloma
Presidents of the Lanzarote Cabildo Insular
20 Sep 1974 - 23 Apr 1977 Francisco Gómez Ruiz
(b. 1935? - d.
2015)
23 Apr 1977 - 10 Oct 1978 Agustín Acosta Cruz
(b. 1937 - d.
2009)
10 Oct 1978 - 19 Apr 1979 Nicolás de Páiz Pereyra
(b. 1940 - d.
2009) CDS
19 Apr 1979 - 23 May 1983 Antonio Lorenzo
Martín (b.
1932) UCD
23 May 1983 - 30 Jun 1987 Enrique Pérez Parrilla
(1st time)
PSOE
30 Jun 1987 - 21 Jun 1991 Nicolás de Páiz Pereyra
(2nd time)(b. 1940 - d. 2009) CDS
21 Jun 1991 - 7 Aug 1993 Dimas Martín Martín
(1st time) (b. 1948)
PIL
7 Aug 1993 - 21 Jun 1994 Sebastiana "Chana"
Perera Brito (f)
PIL
21 Jun 1994 - 23 Jun 1995 Enrique Pérez Parrilla
(2nd time)
PSOE
23 Jun 1995 - 6 Sep 1996 Juan Carlos Becerra
Robayna (b. 1958)
PIL
6 Sep 1996 - 10 Mar 1997 Pedro Manuel de Armas
San Ginés
PIL
10 Mar 1997 - 21 Jun 2003 Enrique Pérez Parrilla
(3rd time)
PSOE
21 Jun 2003 - 14 Jul 2004 Dimas Martín Martín (2nd
time) (s.a.)
PIL
10 Jan 2004 - 26 Jul 2004 Mario Pérez Hernández
CC
("accidental")
26 Jul 2004 - 23 Feb 2005 María José Docal Serrano
(f)
PIL
18 Feb 2005 - 23 Feb 2004 Plácida Guerra Cabrera (f)
(b. 1956)
PIL
("accidental")
23 Feb 2005 - 20 Jun 2005 Francisco Domingo Cabrera
García (b. 1958)
PP
14 Jun 2005 - 30 Jun 2005 María Dolores Luzardo de
León (f) (b. 1953)
PP
("accidental")
30 Jun 2005 - 22 Jun 2007 Inés Nieves Rojas de León
(f) (b. 1958)
CC
22 Jun 2007 - 17 Oct 2009 Manuela Armas Rodríguez
(f) (b. 1952)
PSOE
17 Oct 2009 -
Pedro San Ginés Gutiérrez
(b. 1968)
CC
Party abbreviations: CC = Coalición
Canaria (Canary Coalition, Canary Is. nationalist and
regionalist, center-right, est.Mar 1993);
PIL = Partido de Independientes de
Lanzarote (Lanzarote nationalist, Canary Islands
nationalist, est.1985); PP = Partido Popular
(People's Party, conservative, est.1989); PSOE =
Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Socialist Worker's
Party of Spain, social-democratic, est.1879);
- Former parties: CDS = Centro
Democrático y Social (Democratic and Social Center,
social-liberal, reformist, 29 Jul 1982-2006, merged into
PP); UCD = Unión Centro
Democrático (Union of the Democratic Center,
social-democratic, center-right, 3 May 1977-18 Feb 1983)
Tenerife
Adopted 30 Jun 1845
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3 May
1493
Conquest of La Palma completed.
25 Dec 1495
Conquest of Tenerife completed,
27 Jul
1496
Tenerife a Spanish crown colony.
1589 - 1595
Part of Captaincy-general of Canary Islands.
1625
Part of Captaincy-general of Canary Islands.
27 Jan 1822
Part of Canary Islands province of Spain.
17 Mar 1852 - 3 Mar 1854
Canary Islands divided into two provinces (Gran
Canaria and
Tenerife [incl. La Palma, Gomera,
Hierro]).
21 Sep
1927
Canary Islands divided into two provinces of
Spain
(Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de
Tenerife).
Governors
1495 -
1525
Alonso Fernández de Lugo
1525 -
1538
Pedro Fernández de Lugo
1538 -
1540
Alfonso Yáñez Dávila
1540 -
1543
Juan Verdugo
1543 -
1546
Jerónimo Álvarez de Sotomayor,
señor de Arenalejo
1546 -
1548
Diego de Figueroa
1548 -
1550
Juan Bautista de Ayora
1550 -
1551
Hernán, duque de Estrada
1551 -
1554
Juan Ruíz de Miranda
1554 -
1557
Juan López de Cepeda
1557 -
1558
Bartolomé de Fonseca (acting)
1558 - Jun
1559
Hernando de Cañizares
1559
Alonso de Llerena (1st time)(acting)
1559 - Oct
1561
Plaza
1561 -
1562
Alonso de Llarena (2nd time)(acting)
1562
Pedro de Ponte, señor de Adexe
1562 -
1565
Armenteros de Paz
1565 -
1567
Juan Vélez de Guevara
1567 -
1570
Eugenio de Salázar
1570 -
1573
Juan Gante del Campo
1573 -
1577
Juan Álvarez de Fonseca
(1st time)
1577 -
1579
Juan de Leiva
1579 -
1582
Juan Álvarez de Fonseca
(2nd time)
1582 -
1584
Lázanro Moreno de León
1584 -
1589
Juan Núñez de la Fuente
1589 -
1597
Tomás de Cangas
1597 -
1601
Pedro Lasso de la Vega
1601 -
1603
Luis Manuel Gudiel y Ortiz
1603 -
1608
Francisco de Benavides
1608 -
1615
Juan de Espinosa
1615 -
1618
Melchor Ruíz de Pereda
1618 -
1621
Diego de Vega Bazán
1621 -
1624
Rodrigo Álvarez de Bohorques
1624 -
1625
Diego Álvarado Bracamonte
Subgovernor of Tenerife (civil
governor of Canarias Occidentales)
1852 - 1854
José Joaquín Monteverde
(b. 1803 - d. 1873)
Govenors of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
26 Oct 1927 - 12 Feb 1930 Buenaventura Benito
Quintero
6 Mar 1930 - 14 Jan 1931 Ángel Guinea León
21 Jan 1931 - 14 Apr 1931 Gustavo Morales de las
Pozas
14 Apr 1931 - 15 Apr 1931 José Ramón Fernández
Diaz (acting)
15 Apr 1931 - 22 Apr 1931 Antonio
Lara Zárate
(b. 1881 - d. 1956) PRR
29 Apr 1931 - 18 Jul 1931 Enrique
Izquierdo Jiménez
PRR
29 Jul 1931 - 7 Jan 1933 Rafael Rubio
Carrión
(b. 1882 - d. 1941) AR
10 Jan 1933 - 7 Aug 1933 Vidal Gil Tirado
PRRS
29 Aug 1933 - 13 Sep 1933 Juan C. González
Quesada (b. 1897 -
d. 1961) PRRS
14 Sep 1933 - 1933 Rufino
Blanco Fombona
(b. 1874 - d. 1944) PRR
27 Sep 1933 - 1 Nov 1935 Rafael
de Pina Milán
(b. 1888 - d. 1966) PRR
1 Nov 1935 - Nov 1935 Enrique
Malboysson Ponce
PRR-PURA
27 Nov 1935 - 20 Dec 1935 José Nofre Jesús
(b. 1894 - d. 1945) LC
21 Dec 1935 - 4 Mar 1936 Tomás Salgado
Pérez
PRR
14 Mar 1936 - 18 Jul 1936 Manuel Vázquez Moro
(b.
1901 - d. 1936) IR
18 Jul 1936 - 3 Aug 1937 Julio Fuentes
Serrano
3 Aug 1937 - 7 Oct 1937 Daniel
Arraiza Goñi
(b. 1880 - d. 1952)
7 Oct 1937 - 11 Dec 1937 Juan Sánchez Real
11 Dec 1937 - 7 Mar 1938 Antonio Espejo
Hinojosa
7 Mar 1938 - 17 Apr 1940 Vicente Sergio
Orbaneja
17 Apr 1940 - 11 Dec 1942 Javier Saldaña
Sanmartín
21 Jan 1943 - 6 Oct 1943 José Clavero
Núñez
(b. 1915 - d. 2006)
9 Oct 1943 - 5 Nov 1946 Julio Pérez
Pérez
(b. 1895 - d. 19..)
5 Nov 1946 - 22 Feb 1950 Emilio de Aspe y
Vaamonde
9 Mar 1950 - 24 Oct 1951 Luis Rosón Pérez
11 Nov 1951 - 23 Nov 1954 Carlos Arias Navarro
(b.
1908 - d. 1989)
23 Nov 1954 - 20 May 1958 Andrés Marín
Martín
26 May 1958 - 14 Mar 1960 Santiago Galindo
Herrero (b. 1920 -
d. 1977)
25 Apr 1960 - 15 Mar 1963 Manuel Balleretos
Gaibrois (b. 1911 - d.
2002)
16 Mar 1963 - 18 Feb 1964 José María Quiroga de
Abarca (b. 1920 - d.
1999)
16 Mar 1964 - 23 Apr 1966 Juan Pablos Abril
(b. 1918 - d. 1991)
6 May 1966 - 11 Nov 1969 Mariano Nicolás
García
5 Dec 1969 - 17 May 1971 Gabriel Elorriaga
Fernández (b. 1930)
4 Jun 1971 - 23 Jul 1973 Antonio del Valle
Menéndez
17 Aug 1973 - 8 Nov 1974 Rafael González
Echegaray (b. 1923 -
d. 1985)
30 Nov 1974 - 24 Jul 1976
Modesto Fraile Poujade
(b. 1935 - d. 1994)
18 Aug 1976 - 4 Mar 1977 Rafael Mombiedro
de la Torre (b. 1920 - d. 1992)
4 Mar 1977 - 23 Jul 1977 Antonio de
Oyarzábal Marchesi (b. 1935)
29 Jul 1977 - 28 Apr 1979 Luis Mardones Sevilla
(b. 1938)
23 Jun 1979 - 17 Dec 1982 Jesús Javier Rebollo y
Álvarez- (d. 2007)
Amandi
Tenerife
Adopted 22 May 1989
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Presidents of the Tenerife Cabildo Insular
2 Feb 1974 - 20 Apr 1979 Rafael Clavijo
García (b.
1924 - d. 1999) UCD
20 Apr 1979 - 24 May 1983 José Miguel
Galván Bello (b.
1913 - d. 1990) AIC
(2nd time)
24 May 1983 - 30 Jun 1987 José Segura
Clavell
(b. 1944)
PSOE
30 Jun 1987 - 9 Jul 1999 Adán Martín Menis
(b. 1943 - d. 2010) CC
9 Jul 1999 - 16 Sep 2013 Ricardo Melchior
Navarro (b. 1947)
CC
16 Sep 2013 -
Carlos Enrique Alonso Rodríguez
(b. 1970) CC
La Palma
Adopted 2 Jan 1991 |
Presidents of the La Palma Cabildo
Insular
1979 - 1982
Gregorio Guadalupe Rodríguez
(b. 1941)
UCD
(1st time)
1982 - 1991
José Ernesto Luis González Afonso
(b. 1931)
PP
1991 - 1993
Gregorio Guadalupe Rodríguez
(s.a.)
CC
(2nd time)
4 Apr 1993 - 1996
Felipe Hernández Rodríguez
(b. 1946)
PSOE
1996 - 8 May 2009
José Luis Perestelo Rodríguez (b.
1956) CC
15 May 2009 - 22 Nov 2013 Guadalupe
González Taño (f) (b. 1952)
CC
22 Nov 2013 -
Anselmo Pestana
Padrón
(b. 1965)
PSOE
Party abbreviations: CC
= Coalición Canaria (Canary Coalition,
Canary Is. nationalist and regionalist, center-right,
est.Mar 1993); PP
= Partido Popular (People's Party, conservative to 20
Jan 1989 named AP); PSOE =
Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Socialist Worker's
Party of Spain, social-democratic, est.1879);
- Former parties: AIC
= Agrupaciones Independientes de Canarias
(Canaries National Initiative, Canary Islands
nationalist, 1985-1993, merged into CC); AR
= Acción Republicana (Republican Action,
republican, progressive, 1925-1934); LC =
Lliga Catalana (former Lliga Regionalista,
1901-1936); PRR =
Partido Republicano Radical (Radical Republican Party,
republican, liberal, 1908-1936); PRRS
= Partido Republicano Radical
Socialista (Radical Republican Socialist
Party, republican, social-democratic, 1929-1934); PURA
= Partido de Unión Republicana Autonomista (Autonomist
Republican Union Party, Blasquismo,
republican, 1908-1936); UCD
= Unión Centro Democrático (Union of the
Democratic Center, social-democratic, center-right,
3 May 1977-18 Feb 1983)
La Gomera and El Hierro
20 Nov
1488
Rebellion on La Gomera.
18 Feb 1852
Incorporated into Spanish crown
possessions, part of Tenerife.
Counts (title Conde/Condesa de La Gomera)
1445 - 1452
Hernan
Peraza "el Viejo" (d.
1452)
1452 -
1488
Hernan Peraza "el Joven"
1488 -
1565
Guillén Peraza
(b. 1485 - d. 1565)
1488 - 1501
Beatriz de Bobadilla (f) -Regent
(d. 1501)
1501 - 15..
Alonso Fernandez de Lugo -Regent
1565 -
1591
Luis Peraza de Ayala
15.. - 1610
Diego de Ayala y Castilla
(in
opposition to Peraza)
1591 - 1610
Alonso de Espinosa -Governor
1610? -
1618
Gaspar de Castilla Guzman
1618 - Oct
1653
Diego II de Guzman Ayala y
Castilla
1653 -
1662
Gaspar II de Ayala y Rojas
1662 -
1668
Diego III de Ayala Herrera y Rojas
1668 -
1718
Juan Bautista de Herrera
(b. 1665 - d. 1718)
1668 - 1718
Mariana de Ponte (f)
1668 - 1680
Juan Bautista de Ponte Fonte
y (b. 1630 - d. 1680)
Pagés,
marqués de Adexe -Regent
1680 - 1718
Cristobál de Ponte Juarez,
marqués
de Quinta Roja -Regent
1718 -
1737
Juan Bautista II de Herrera
1737 -
1748
Antonio Jose de Herrera
Ayala y
Rojas
1748 - 14 Dec 1766
Domingo de Herrera
1767 - 1794
Florencia Pizarro Piccolomini (b. 1727 -
d. 1794)
y
Herrera (f)
1794 - 1835
Juan de la Cruz Belvis de Moncada (b. 1755
- d. 1835)
y
Pizarro
1835 -
1842
Antonio Belvis de Moncada y
(b. 1775 - d. 1842)
Álvarez
de Toledo
1842 - 18 Feb 1852 José
Álvarez de las Asturias (b. 1822 -
d. 1852)
Bohórquez y Belvis de Moncada
General administrators
1766 - Sep 1786
Francisco del Castillo Santelices (d. 1786)
1786 - 1794/5
Francisco Espejo
+ Matías
Fernàndez
1794/5 - 1806
Francisco Sáenz Esquerra
1806 - 1812
Baltasar Valcárcel
Apr 1812 - Jul 1812 Matías
Fernandez (acting)
Aug 1812 - 1822
Baltasar Valcárcel
1822 - 1829
Matías Martínez Valcárcel
1829 - 1834
José de Zárate Figueredo
1834 - 1855
Francisco Díaz González
La Gomera
Adopted 2 Aug 1999
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Presidents of the La Gomera Cabildo
Insular
1979 - Aug 1986
Antonio Plasencia Trujillo
(b. 1934? - d. 2015) UCD;1983 AGI
1986 - 1987
Luis Pedro Izquierdo Rodríguez
(b. 1925? - d. 2007) AGI
1987 - 1991
Ramón Jerez Herrera
(b. 1942)
PSOE
1991 -
Casimiro Curbelo Curbelo
(b. 1955)
PSOE;2015 ASG
El Hierro
Adopted 29 May 1987
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Presidents of the El Hierro Cabildo Insular
1979 - 1991
Tomás Padrón Hernández (1st time) (b.
1945) AHI
1991
Venancio Acosta Padrón
(b. 1958)
AHI
1991 - 1995
Inocencio
Hernández González (b. 1946)
PSOE
1995 - 2011
Tomás Padrón
Hernández (2nd time) (s.a.)
AHI-CC
May 2011 - Sep
2011 Belén Allende Riera
(b.
1962)
AHI-CC
Sep 2011 - 2015
Alpidio Armas González
(b. 1959)
PSOE
2015 -
Belén Allende Riera
(f)
(b. 1962)
AHI-CC
Party abbreviations: AHI
= Agrupación Herreña Independiente (Herreño Independent
Association, from 1995 member of CC, est.1979);
ASG = Agrupación Socialista Gomera (Gomera
Socialist Group, split from PSOE, est.2015); CC
= Coalición Canaria (Canary Coalition, Canary Is.
nationalist and regionalist, center-right,
est.Mar 1993); PSOE
= Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Socialist Worker's
Party of Spain, social-democratic, est.1879);
- Former parties: AGI
= Agrupación Gomera de Independientes (Gomera Group of
Independents, center-right, 1983-1993, merged into CC); UCD
= Unión Centro Democrático (Union of the
Democratic Center, social-democratic, center-right, 3
May 1977-18 Feb 1983)
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