Year |
Date |
Event
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1901 |
|
Regionalist League founded.
|
1905 |
25 November |
¡Cu-Cut! incident. Officers of the Spanish Army, angry at the magazine for having published an offending joke, stormed the Cu-Cut! offices.[8] |
1907 |
3 August |
Solidaridad Obrera labor federation founded.
|
1909 |
25 July |
Beginning of the Tragic Week.
|
1910 |
30 October |
CNT, Anarcho-syndicalist trade union, founded in Barcelona. |
1911 |
6 January |
First edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race begins.
|
1914 |
6 April |
Commonwealth of Catalonia established. Enric Prat de la Riba (Regionalist League) appointed its first president.
|
|
Library of Catalonia opens to the public. |
1919 |
February |
La Canadiense strike. Among its consequences was to force the Spanish government to issue the first law limiting the working day to eight hours.
|
1925 |
20 March |
Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator, disbanded the Commonwealth of Catalonia.
|
1926 |
4 November |
Events of Prats de Molló: Francesc Macià, leader of the independentist party Estat Català, tried to liberate Catalonia from France with a small army and proclaim the Catalan Republic, but he was betrayed and arrested.
|
1929 |
|
1929 Barcelona International Exposition.
|
1931 |
14 April |
Francesc Macià proclaimed the Catalan Republic within the “Iberian Federation”.[10] |
17 April |
After negotiation, the Catalan Republic becomes the Generalitat, the Catalan institution of self-government within the Spanish Republic.
|
1932 |
18 January |
Anarchist insurrection of Alt Llobregat mining area.
|
9 September |
Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia approved by the Spanish Parliament. Catalonia became an autonomous region within the Spanish Republic.[11] |
20 November |
First election to the Parliament of Catalonia, the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) won a large majority of seats.[12] |
14 December |
The Parliament appointed Francesc Macià (ERC) as president of the Generalitat of Catalonia.
|
1934 |
1 January |
The Parliament appointed Lluís Companys (ERC) as president of the Generalitat of Catalonia right after the death of Macià on December 25, 1933.
|
21 March |
Crop Contracts Law passed by Catalan Parliament.
|
6 October |
Lluís Companys proclaimed the Catalan State of the Spanish Federal Republic. The Spanish army quickly suppressed the proclamation, arresting Companys and the Catalan government. Self-government suspended.
|
11 November |
Art Museum of Catalonia inaugurated.[13] |
1936 |
19 February |
After the Popular Front victory in the February 1936 Spanish general election, the Catalan government was pardoned and reinstated.
|
19 July |
Military uprising in Barcelona, as part of the coup against the Republic. Forces of the Generalitat and trade unions stopped the coup in Barcelona and Catalonia. Beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Anarchists take control de facto of Catalonia.
|
21 July |
Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia established.
|
24 October |
The Generalitat passed the Decree on Collectivization and Workers’ Control.[14] |
6 December |
People’s Army of Catalonia raised.
|
1937 |
3 May |
May Days, clashes between the anarchists and POUM versus the forces of the Republic and the Generalitat, supported by the PSUC. The Republic recovered full control of Catalonia.
|
1938 |
5 April |
General Francisco Franco decrees the suppression of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia and the Generalitat.
|
25 July |
Beginning of the Battle of the Ebro.
|
1939 |
5 February |
Lluís Companys crossed the Franco-Spanish border, the Generalitat went into exile.
|
1940 |
15 October |
President Lluís Companys was executed in Montjuïc Castle of Barcelona by firing squad in Francoist Spain.
|
1952 |
27 May |
35th International Eucharistic Congress held in Barcelona.
|
1971 |
7 November |
Assembly of Catalonia founded.
|
1977 |
11 September |
1977 Catalan autonomy protest.
|
23 October |
The exiled president of Catalonia, Josep Tarradellas, returned to Barcelona and the Generalitat of Catalonia was restored.
|
1979 |
8 September |
Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 1979.
|
1980 |
20 March |
First election to the reestablished Parliament of Catalonia. Convergència i Unió (CiU) became the winning party.
|
24 April |
The Parliament appointed Jordi Pujol (CiU) as president of the Generalitat of Catalonia.
|
1983 |
6 April |
Law of Linguistic Normalization of Catalan passed by the Parliament.
|
8 September |
Televisió de Catalunya founded.[15] |
1992 |
25 July |
1992 Summer Olympic Games held in Barcelona.[16] |
1998 |
15 July |
Law recognizing same-sex partnerships passed by the Parliament. Catalonia became the first Spanish territory to recognize them.
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