1857-1901.......1902-1912.......1913-1935.......1936-1959.......1960-1995

1857 Santiago Arana Ansotegi decides to build the family dwelling at no. 10 Ibáñez de Bilbao, in the Abando district.
26 January 1865

Sabino Arana is born.
1873

The Arana family is forced to go into exile in Iparralde owing to the father's Carlist ideas.
1876 The family returns to Bilbao and Sabino enters the Jesuit school in Orduña.
1882 Sabino Arana, encouraged by his brother Luis, abandons the Carlist ideal and takes up the study of the Basque people, their history, their language, and their Laws.
1883 On the father's death, the family moves to Barcelona. Sabino enrols to study law.
1888 The family returns for good to Bilbao.
3 June 1893 In the course of a dinner at the Larrazabal farmhouse, Sabino Arana sets forth his ideas regarding the independence of Bizkaia.
14 July 1894 The society of patriots "Euskeldun Batzokija" is set up.
31 July 1895

The Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea, or Basque Nationalist Party, is officially founded.
12 September 1895

On governmental order, Euskeldun Batzokija is closed down and its board of directors, chaired by Sabino Arana, is arrested.
January 1896 Sabino Arana leaves jail.
2 May 1897

Baserritarra is published for the first time. A little later it is closed down by the Civil Governor.
24 April 1898

The Arana home is stoned during a demonstration by Spanish sympathizers.
6 September 1899 The estate at No. 16 Ibáñez de Bilbao is acquired by Luis, Sabino, and Paulina Arana. Later Luis Arana sells it to the businessman Epifanio Lasheras Martínez.
30 April 1902 Sabino Arana is again jailed following his attempt to congratulate the President of the US over the independence of Cuba.
1902, azaroak 8 Sabino Arana is absolved and leaves prison. In declining health he appoints Angel Zabala to succeed him as leader of the EAJ/PNV.
25 November 1903

Sabino Arana dies at six o'clock in the morning in Sukarrieta.
9 May 1906

To the industrialist Máximo Chávarri Larrea, Epifanio Lasheras sells the house in which Sabino Arana was born.
1906 Angel Zabala is appointed leader of the Basque nationalism movement by a collegiate body, or Diputación.
4 August 1908

Luis Arana is elected president of the EAJ/PNV in Bizkaia. He holds this post until expelled in late 1915.
February 1913 Euzkadi, the first Basque-nationalist daily, is published for the first time.
September 1921

A split in the Basque nationalism movement gives rise to two parties, Comunión Nacionalista and PNV.
September 1923 The Triple Alliance between the Galician, Catalan, and Basque nationalist movements is signed.
September 1923

A military coup is carried out by General Primo Rivera. His main objectives include the wiping out of all aspirations to independence.
1930

Nationalist reunification following the Bergara Assembly.
 

30 November 1930

 

 A group of abertzales emerges to abandon the ideology of Sabino Arana. Thus is born Acción Nacionalista Vasca.
1931

The Ensanche nationalists consider the need to have a Batzoki of their own, and set their sights on the house in which Sabino Arana was born.
18 October 1931 The Civil Governor approves the regulations of the new Batzoki of Sabin Etxea.
26 March 1932 Official inauguration of Sabin Etxea.
27 March 1932

The first Aberri Eguna (Basque Patriotism Day) is held. A large demonstration in Bilbao ends at Sabin Etxea, where a plaque is revealed.
4 May 1932

The Federation of Basque Schools (Euzko Ikastola Batza) establishes its residence at Sabin Etxea.
15 January 1933

Inauguration of Ikastola Errotatxueta.
13 July 1933 The Civil Governor of Bizkaia orders the arrest of the seven B.B.B. members, who are set free after twenty-four hours. A few days later the closing down of the Basque General Secretariat, Euzko Ikastola Batza, Bizkaiko Euzko Gaztetxu Batza, and Batzoki Sabin Etxea is ordered.
5 September 1933 On governmental order, the headquarters of the Regional Council of Bizkaia are closed.
18 July 1936 Military uprising against the Republic, supported by the EAJ/PNV.
25 September 1936

Euzko Gudarostea is formally set up, with Ramón Azkue as leader. Altogether, twenty-five battalions are organized.
25 September 1936 A bomb damages Sabin Etxea. For security reasons the offices of the EAJ/PNV move to No. 41 Gran Vía.
1 October 1936

The republican Cortes meet to debate the Statute of Autonomy of Euzkadi.
1 October 1936 The Statute is approved.
7 October 1936 José Antonio Agirre is elected Lehendakari of the first Basque government, in Gernika.
27 April 1937 On the day following the bombing of Gernika, and in absolute secrecy, the mortal remains of Sabino Arana are moved so that his tomb cannot be profaned.
June 1937 Following the occupation of Bilbao by the Francoist troops, Sabin Etxea is confiscated and converted into the headquarters of the Spanish Falangist movement and Social Assistance.
December 1960 In the midst of considerable security measures, the house in which Sabino Arana was born is demolished.
31 January 1967

The Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Navigation of Bilbao acquires the site, which on May 2 it sells to Promoción de Obras y Edificios, S.A.
20 November 1975

General Franco dies. One of the objectives of the Basque nationalism movement is to recover the site.
6 February 1979

EAJ/PNV takes over the entire assets of PRODISA, which it dissolves.
20 August 1979 The site on Ibáñez de Bilbao where Sabino Arana was born is finally the property of the nationalists.
1979/80

An attempt to set up a Foundation in homage to Sabino Arana, on the site of the first Sabin Etxea, is frustrated.
1988 The idea of building a new Sabin Etxea is reconsidered.
11 October 1988

The Sabino Arana Foundation-Sabino Arana Kultur Elkargoa is officially founded.
1 January 1989

With maximum discretion, the mortal remains of Sabino Arana are returned to the cemetery at Sukarrieta.
1989

Tenders are invited from architects belonging to the EAJ/PNV for the construction of the new Sabin Etxea. Koldo Eguren Zendoia's design is selected.
2 August 1990 Start of work.
13 March 1991 Laying of the first stone.
October 1992

First offices are occupied.
25 November 1992

The first public ceremony is held with the new Sabin Etxea as setting: presentation of the book Sabino Arana. El hombre y su Trayectoria, by Aita Mauro Elizondo.
26 January 1993

The Basque Nationalism Archives, set up by the Fundación Sabino Arana-Sabino Arana Kultur Elkargoa, are inaugurated.
Summer 1995

Coinciding with the centenary of the founding of the Basque Nationalist Party, the second phase of the work on Sabin Etxea is completed.