Belligerents: Kingdom of Portugal, Almoravid dynasty, Kingdom of Valencia, Caliphate of Córdoba, Crown of Aragon, Kingdom of Aragon, Kingdom of Leon, Kingdom of Castile
Key battles
Battle of Covadonga (722)
Battle of Roncevaux Pass (778)
Battle of the Burbia River (791)
Battle of Lutos (794)
Battle of Pancorbo (816)
Battle of Guadalacete (852)
Battle of Monte Laturce (859)
Battle of Simancas (939)
Battle of Graus (1063)
Crusade of Barbastro (1064)
Battle of Sagrajas (1086)
Battle of Alcoraz (1096)
Battle of Uclés (1108)
Battle of Fraga (1134)
Battle of Ourique (1139)
Battle of Alarcos (1195)
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212)
Siege of Seville (1248)
First Siege of Gibraltar (1309)
Battle of Río Salado (1340)
Conquest of Ceuta (1415)
Battle of La Higueruela (1431)
Capture of Granada (1491)
Battle of Alcácer Quibir (1578)
Who lived through the Reconquista
Well-known people alive during 733–1492:
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) — Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
Michelangelo (1475–1564) — Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) — Italian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) — Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469–1527)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) — Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
Marco Polo (1254–1324) — Venetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia (1254–1324)
Genghis Khan (1162–1227) — founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire (1162–1227)
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) — Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)
Li Bai (701–762) — Classical Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty (701–762)
Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) — Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain
Avicenna (980–1037) — Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
Joan of Arc (1412–1431) — French folk heroine (1412–1431), military leader who crowned Charles VII and Roman Catholic saint, canonized 500 years after her death
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) — German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)
Charlemagne (742–814) — king of Franks, regarded as the first Holy Roman Emperor (747–814) (742-814)
Vasco da Gama (1460–1525) — Portuguese explorer (c. 1460s – 1524)
Johannes Gutenberg (1400–1468) — German inventor and craftsman (1400-1468)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) — 14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) — Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
Ibn Battuta (1304–1368) — 14th century Muslim Maghrebi scholar and explorer