The Last Bullfighting: Timeline

Spain's Catalonia put into effect a full ban on bullfighting. A quick story of this bloody sport?.

• 2000 BC: In Greece

  

  wall painting in Crete, the eldest sign of bullfighting.

• 1133 AD: Start of Modern Bullfighting

  

  at the coronation of king Alfonso VIII. Bullfighting was then a part of every special occasion.

• 1784 AD: Pedro Romero

  

  The most legendary bullfighter in Spain.

• 1800 AD: Goya etchings

  

  Goya etchings display the growing role of this....sport

• 1932: Ernest Hemingway Novel

  

  Hemingway became an aficionado of the sport after seeing the Pamplona fiesta in the 1920s,

• 1941 Blood and Sand Movie

  

  Hollywood plays the fame and fortune game through bullfighting.

• 1966: British Matador

  

  Frank Evans was 67 years old when he jumped back to the arena.

• 2009: Stop Bullfighting

  

  Michelle Lagravere tortured and killed 6 calves in Mexico on Saturday 24th January 2009, despite animal rights campaigners trying to have the fight stopped

• 2011: Catalonia Bans Bullfighting

  

  Barcelona hosted its last bullfight yesterday.