1876 Francisco Giner de los Ríos and other university professors created the Institución Libre de Enseñanza. 1901 The Ministerio de Instrucción Pública was created. 1907 The Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas (JAE), headed Santiago Ramón y Cajal, was established / The Institut d’Estudis Catalans was created in Barcelona with Antoni Rubio I Lluch as director. 1910 The Royal Decree of May 6 established the Residencia de Estudiantes that opened its doors on October 1, on Fortuny Street in Madrid, with 15 students. Jorge Guillén, Miguel Prados, Pere Bosch Gimpera, Ferran Vals Taberner and Josep Sureda were among the first residents / The JAE created the Centro de Estudios Históricos; the Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología in Roma; the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Físico-Naturales. 1912 The first two laboratories of the Residencia were created. Those facilities were increased in 1916 (2) and 1919 (1) / The Summer Courses for Foreign Students started / José Ortega y Gasset gave his first lecture at the Residencia, an activity that he continued regularly until 1936. 1913 Juan Ramón Jiménez started living at the Residencia. / The Residencia de Estudiantes published its first work, with Juan Ramón Jiménez as editor. 1914 The Children Group was created, with Emilio Prados and José (Pepín) Bello Lasierra among its first students / The Residencia published José Ortega y Gasset’s Meditaciones del Quijote, the second title of its publications. 1915 The Residencia de Estudiantes moved to its new site on Pinar St., on The Poplars Hill. / The Residencia de Señoritas, directed by María de Maeztu, opened on Fortuny St. numbers 28 - 30. 1916 Henri Bergson lectured at the Residencia. 1917 José Moreno Villa moved into the Residencia, where he lived until 1936. / Luis Buñuel arrived at the Residencia de Estudiantes, where he stayed until 1925. / Perre Coromines’ lecture series. / The Residencia de Estudiantes published the first edition of Antonio Machado’s  Poesías completas. 1918 The Instituto-Escuela was founded. 1919 Federico García Lorca arrived at the Residencia, where he lived until 1925. / Lecture by Eugeni d’Ors. 1922 Salvador Dalí arrives at the Residencia where he will stay until 1926. / H. G. Wells, Francesc Cambó, Teixeira de Pascoaes and Eugénio de Castro gave lectures at the Residencia. 1923 Severo Ochoa moved into the Residencia where he lived until1930 working with Juan Negrín at the Laboratory of Physiology. / Albert Einstein delivered his lecture on the theory of relativity, with simultaneous translation by José Ortega y Gasset. 1924 Paul Valéry, Howard Carter and Gabriela Mistral gave lectures at the Residencia. 1925 Louis Aragon’s lecture. 1926 Gabriel Celaya arrived at the Residencia, where he remained until 1935. / Gabriela Mistral and G. K. Chesterton gave lectures. / The Lyceum Club Femenino was founded. 1927 Gabriel Celaya arrived at the Residencia, where he remained until 1935. / Luis Buñuel started a series showing avant-garde films. He continued with the series on the following year. 1928 Maurice Ravel’s concert, and performance of Manuel de Falla’s  El retablo de maese Pedro. / F. T. Marinetti and Le Corbusier gave lectures. 1929 The Sociedad de Cursos y Conferencias organized Españoles Residentes en París, an exhibition shown at the Botanic Garden. / The International Congress pro the Society of Nations was hold at the Residencia. 1930 John M. Keynes, Walter Gropius, and Arthur S. Eddington gave lectures. 1931 Marie Curie’s lecture. / Performance of Igor Stravinsky’s L'Histoire du soldat, with sets by Federico García Lorca and José Caballero. / Performance by Teatro Universitario La Barraca in the gardens of the Residencia. / The Misiones Pedagógicas (Educational Missions) were established. 1932 The new site of the Instituto Nacional de Física y Química, headed by Blas Cabrera, opened. 1933 The Committee for the Intellectual Cooperation of the Society of Nations, chaired by Marie Curie, met at the Residencia. / Alexander Calder presented his Cirque, a miniature circus. / The new auditorium was inaugurated. / La Argentinita and Rafael Ortega performed Manuel de Falla’s El amor brujo. / Igor Stravinsky’s concert. / The Colegio de España opened in Paris. / The University Cruise to the Mediterranean Sea was organized. 1935 Francis Poulenc’s concert, performed by Sulima Stravinsky and Rosa García Ascot. 1936 After the outbreak of the Civil War, the Residencia obtained diplomatic immunity through the American and British embassies. / José Ortega y Gasset, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Gregorio Marañón, Dámaso Alonso and their families, among others, took shelter at the Residencia. / The buildings of the Residencia were occupied by a motorized division and converted into a military hospital directed by Luis Calandre, a former physician of the house.