Timeline of notable events in Galician history
- 589 - Pantardus becomes bishop of Braga.
- 633 - Julian becomes bishop of Braga.
- 653 - Potamius becomes bishop of Braga.
- 656 - St. Fructuosus of Dumes becomes bishop of Braga.
- 663 - Council (Ecumenical Synod) of Braga.
- 675
- Leodegisius becomes bishop of Braga.
- Council (Ecumenical Synod) of Braga.
- 681 - Liuva becomes bishop of Braga.
- 688 - Faustinus becomes bishop of Braga.
- 693 - Félix becomes bishop of Braga.
Félix of Braga was the last bishop of Braga to reside there until 1070, due to the Moorish invasion. His successors established themselves in Lugo (Galicia).
- 916 - Ordoño II of León is defeated by the Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III in Valdejunquera.
- 924 - Fruela becomes King of León and Galicia, after the death of his brother, but died a year later.
- 925
- Alfonso Fróilaz son of Fruela, King of León and Galicia, Sancho I Ordóñez, Alfonso IV and Ramiro II, the sons of Ordoño II of León, claimed to be the rightful heirs and rebelled against their nephew. With support of Jimeno of Navarre they drove Alfonso Fróilaz to the eastern borderlands of Asturias and divided the kingdom among themselves
- Sancho I Ordoñez, son of Ordoño II of León, becomes king of Galicia until his death in 929.
- Alfonso IV becomes Kingdom of León.
- Ramiro II, becomes King only of a lesser part of Asturias and was the first to bear the title King of Portuguese Land.
- 929 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Galicia.
- 931 - Alfonso IV resigned the crown to his brother Ramiro II in 931 and went into a religious house.
- 932 - Alfonso IV took up arms with Fruela's sons Ordoño and Ramiro against his own brother Ramiro II, having repented of his renunciation of the world. He was defeated, blinded and sent back to die in the cloister of Sahagun.
- 950 - Ordoño III becomes King of León.
- 953 - Big Moorish incursion in Galicia.
- 955 - Ordoño III of León attacks Lisbon.
- 956 - Sancho I becomes King of León.
- 958 - Sancho I of León is deposed and Ordoño IV becomes King of León.
- 960 - Sancho I of León is reinstated as King of León.
- 967 - Ramiro III becomes King of León.
- 971 - Another minor Viking raid in Galicia.
- 982 - Bermudo II becomes King of Galicia and 'King of Portuguese Land after a joint rebellion against Ramiro III
- 984 - Bermudo II becomes King of León, having been acclaimed by the counts of Galicia and anointed in Santiago de Compostela.
- 987
- Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir seizes the castles north of the Douro river, and arrives at the city of Santiago de Compostela. The city had been evacuated and Al-Mansur burns it to the ground and destroys the Church of Santiago.
- Count Gonçalo Mendes takes the personal title Magnus Dux Portucalensium (Grand-Duke of Portugal) and rebels against King Bermudo II of León, being defeated.
- 999 - Alfonso V becomes King of León.
- 1008 - Vikings raid Galicia, killing Count Mendo Gonçalves II of Portugal.
- 1016 - Norman invaders ascend the Minho river and destroy Tui in Galicia.
- 1028
- Alfonso V, king of Asturias and León, lays siege to Viseu but is killed by a bolt from the walls.
- Bermudo III, becomes King of León.
- 1031
- Sancho III of Navarre declares war on Bermudo III of León. Navarre, sometimes assisted by Galician rebels and Normans, ravages the lands around Lugo in Galicia.
1032 Bermudo III of León, deprived of the capital city of Leon, retreated into Galicia.
- 1034
- The Leonese destroy a raiding force under Ismail ibn Abbad of Seville. Ismail ibn Abbad flees to Lisbon.
- Gonçalo Trastemires - a Portuguese frontiersman - captures Montemor castle on the Mondego river.
- By 1034, Sancho the Great of Navarre had incorporated Aragon, Sobrarbe, Barcelona, as well as Asturias, Kingdom of León and Castile, and he proclaims himself Rex Hispaniarum ("King of all Spains").
- 1035
- Sancho III of Navarre, Aragon and Castile dies and distributes his lands among his three sons; Castile and Aragon become kingdoms. Bermudo III of León is immediately received back into León and soon began a campaign to recover Castile.
- Bermudo III of León defeats the Moors in César, in the Aveiro region.
- 1037 – Ferdinand of Castile, son of Sancho III of Navarre, acquires the Kingdom of León in the Battle of Tamarón. The first Castilian king, Ferdinand I, defeats and kills his father-in-law, Bermudo III of León, thus inheriting his kingdom.
- 1039 – Ferdinand I of Castille-León proclaims himself Emperor of all Hispania
- 1060-1063 - Council (Ecumenical Synod) of Santiago de Compostela.
- 1063 - Ferdinand I of Castile-León divides his kingdom among his sons. Galicia is allotted to his son García.
- 1065 - Independence of the Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal is proclaimed under the rule of Garcia II of Galicia.
- 1070 - Count Nuno Mendes of Portugal rises against King Garcia II of Galicia.
- 1071 - Garcia II of Galicia becomes the first to use the title King of Portugal, when he defeats, in the Battle of Pedroso (near Braga), Count Nuno Mendes, last count of Portugal of the Vímara Peres House.
- 1072 - Loss of independence of the Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal, forcibly reannexed by Garcia's brother king Alfonso VI of Castile.
- 1077 - Alfonso VI of Castile and León proclaims himself Emperor of all Spains.
- 1091- Alfonso VI of Castile gives his daughter Urraca of Castile in marriage to Raymond of Burgundy together with the fiefdom of Galicia.
- 1102 - Diego Gemírez, Bishop of Santiago de Compostela, uses force to carry off the relics of St. Victor and St. Fructuosus of Dumes from Braga - recently reinstated as a Metropolitan See.
- 1107 - Count Raymond of Burgundy dies. The Kingdom of Galicia passes on to his son Alfonso Raimúndez.
- 1109 July 1 – Alfonso VI of Castile and León dies. Urraca of Castile, Count Raymond of Burgundy's widow, is his only surviving legitimate child and marries King Alfonso I of Aragon.
- 1120
- 1129 - April 6, Afonso Henriques proclaims himself Prince of Portugal.
- 1130
- Prince Afonso Henriques invades Galicia.
- Prince Afonso Henriques' mother, Theresa, Countess of Portugal, dies in Galicia.