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On 27th April 711, a Berber commander called Tariq ibn Ziyad landed at the rock that now bears his name. What followed was the destruction of the Visigothic Kingdom within months — and the beginning of 781 years of Muslim rule in Iberia.
On 9 April 1609, Philip III signed the decree expelling the Moriscos from Spain - the descendants of Muslims whose families had lived on the Iberian peninsula since 711. The Treaty of Granada had promised them peace. It took 117 years to break that promise.
On 4 April 801, Louis the Pious captured Barcelona after a seven-month winter siege. History would remember him as the weeping, penitent emperor who let the Carolingian Empire fall apart. On this morning he was twenty-two, and had just done something his father never managed.
On 2nd January 1492, Boabdil - the last Sultan of Granada - handed the keys of the Alhambra to Ferdinand and Isabella, ending 781 years of Muslim rule in Iberia. The same year: Jews expelled, Columbus sets sail. One morning opened a very long sequence.