Alfonso VI of Castile captures the city of Toledo, Spain, from the Moorish Taifa kingdom on May 24, 1085, after a lengthy siege. The fall of Toledo, after over 370 years of Muslim control was a crucial moment in the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula, The city went on to become the capital of the united kingdom of Castilla y León.
The Reconquista of Spain took nearly 800 years from the early 8th century Umayyad invasion in 711 or the Battle of Covadonga until 1492, when the last Muslim stronghold, the Emirate of Granada, fell to the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Making it one of history's longest conflicts.
