Timeline of Catalan history
The following is a timeline of Catalan history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Catalonia and its predecessor states and entities. To read about the background to these events, see History of Catalonia.
8th century
Year | Date | Event |
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785 | Girona was conquered by the Franks from Muslim control. Establishment of the County of Girona. |
9th century
Year | Date | Event |
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801 | Barcelona was conquered by the Franks from Muslim control. Establishment of the County of Barcelona. | |
826 | Aissó Revolt against Frankish nobility. | |
878 | Wilfred the Hairy becomes Count of Barcelona. He created the tradition of hereditary passage of titles. | |
897 | Muslim raid over the County of Barcelona. |
10th century
Year | Date | Event |
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988 | Borrell II, Count of Barcelona not renewed allegiance to the French king Hugh Capet; he became de facto an independent count. |
11th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1027 | First Assembly of Peace and Truce of God of Catalonia, in Toulouges (Roussillon), promoted and presided by Abbot Oliba. |
12th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1118 | The Archdiocese of Tarragona was reestablished. | |
1137 | Marriage between Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, and Petronilla, Queen of Aragon, creating the Crown of Aragon. | |
1192 | First Catalan Courts. |
13th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1213 | 12 September | Battle of Muret, defeat of Catalan, Aragonese and Occitan forces led by Peter II of Aragon, which died in the battle, against the French-Crusade army. |
1249 | James I created the Council of One Hundred of Barcelona. | |
1258 | Treaty of Corbeil between James I and Louis IX of France. The French king renounced claims of feudal overlordship over Catalonia while James renounced his claims in Occitania, except Foix. | |
1283 | First Catalan constitutions. | |
1285 | 30 September | Battle of the Col de Panissars (Catalan Pyrenees), decisive victory of the king Peter III of Aragon over French forces, during the Aragonese Crusade. |
1300 | The University of Lleida, the first university of Catalonia and the Crown of Aragon, was founded. |
14th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1318 | Establishment of the Royal Archives in Barcelona. | |
1333 | Lo mal any primer (The first bad year), great famine due to poor harvest. | |
1350 | Catalan Courts of Perpignan. First official and explicit use of the term "Principality of Catalonia". | |
1359 | The Catalan Courts of 1359 created the Generalitat of Catalonia. |
15th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1401 | Taula de Canvi, first public bank of Europe, founded in Barcelona. | |
1410 | Martin I, last king of the House of Barcelona, died without heirs. Beginning of two-year interregnum. | |
1412 | Compromise of Caspe, parliamentary representatives of Catalonia, Aragon and Valencia elected Ferdinand of the Castilian House of Trastámara as the new King of Aragon. | |
1462 | Beginning of the Catalan Civil War. | |
1472 | 24 October | Capitulation of Pedralbes, end of the Civil War with negotiated victory of the royal side. |
1481 | The Constitució de l'Observança was approved by the Catalan Courts, establishing the submission of royal power to the laws of the Principality Catalonia. | |
1486 | 21 April | Sentencia Arbitral de Guadalupe: the remença peasants were liberated from the majority of feudal abuses. |
1493 | Christopher Columbus was received in the monastery of Sant Jeroni de la Murtra of Badalona by the Catholic Monarchs after his first voyage to America. |
16th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1519 | Charles V presided the Catalan Courts and was recognized as Count of Barcelona. |
17th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1626 | 7 June | The Catalan Courts, presided by Philip IV, rejected the proposal of Union of Arms made by the royal favourite and minister Count-Duke of Olivares. |
1640 | 7 June | Corpus de Sang in Barcelona, one of the initial events of the Reaper's War. |
1641 | 16 January | Pau Claris, President of the Generalitat proclaimed, according with the States-General of Catalonia, the Catalan Republic under French proteccion. |
23 January | In order to gain more military aid from France, the States-General proclaimed Louis XIII as Count of Barcelona. | |
26 January | Battle of Montjuïc, decisive Franco-Catalan victory over the Spanish armies. | |
1652 | Fall of Barcelona to the Spanish Royal army. The Principality was reincorporated into the Monarchy of Spain. | |
1659 | Treaty of the Pyrenees between Spain and France, the counties of Roussillon and the northern half of Cerdanya were ceded to France. | |
1687 | Revolt of the Barretines. |
18th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1701 | Catalan Courts presided by Philip V of Bourbon, they recognized Philip as Count of Barcelona and created the Court of Contraventions. | |
20 June | Treaty of Genoa between England and Catalonia. | |
1705 | 11 September | Last Catalan Courts, presided by Charles III of Habsburg, They recognized Philip as Count of Barcelona and established an important advance in the guarantee of individual, civil and political rights. |
1714 | 11 September | Fall of Barcelona to Bourbon army. |
1716 | Nueva Planta Decrees, the Principality of Catalonia loss its institutions and laws and it was politically incorporated into the Crown of Castille, as de facto Kingdom of Spain. | |
1721 | Mossos d'Esquadra founded. |
19th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1812 | 12 January | By decree of Napoleon, Catalonia was incorporated to France and divided into four French departaments. |
1814 | French troops evacuated Catalonia. | |
1832 | It was inaugurated in Barcelona the factory Bonaplata, the first of the country that worked with steam engine. | |
1835 | First bullanga, popular revolt in Barcelona. | |
1843 | Jamància, last bullanga, which revindicated a progressive political program. | |
1848 | 28 October | First railway construction in the Iberian Peninsula, linking Barcelona with Mataró. |
1859 | May | The Floral Games were re-established, in the context of the Renaixença. |
1869 | 18 May | The representatives of the federal-republican committees of Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands had signed the Tortosa Pact to work together in order to establish the Spanish Federal Republic. |
1873 | 9 May | The Provincial Deputation of Barcelona, controlled by federal-republicans, proclaimed an ephemeral Catalan State. |
1888 | 1888 Barcelona Universal Exposition. | |
1892 | Manresa Bases, first proposal of self-government of Catalonia made by Catalan nationalism. |
20th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1905 | May | ¡Cu-Cut! Affair. Officers of the Spanish Army, angry at the magazine for having published an offending joke, stormed the Cu-Cut! offices. |
1909 | 25 July | Beginning of the Tragic Week. |
1914 | 6 April | The Commonwealth of Catalonia was established. Enric Prat de la Riba was elected its first president. |
National Library of Catalonia established.[1] | ||
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. |
1931 | 14 April | Francesc Macià proclaimed the Catalan Republic as state of the "Iberian Federation". |
1932 | 9 September | Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 1932. Catalonia becomes an autonomous region within the Spanish Republic. |
20 November | The Parliament of Catalonia was elected for the first time, the Republican Left of Catalonia won a large majority of seats. | |
14 December | The Parliament elected Macià as president of Catalonia. | |
1934 | 6 October | Lluís Companys, president of Catalonia, proclaimed the Catalan State of the Spanish Federal Republic. The Spanish army quickly suppressed the State and arrested Companys and the Catalan government. The autonomy was suspended. |
1936 | February | After the Popular Front victory in the February 1936 Spanish general election, the Catalan government was pardoned and reinstated in their functions. |
19 July | Military uprising in Barcelona, as part of the military coup against the Republic. The 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. | |
1937 | 3 May | May Days, clashes between the anarchists and POUM against the forces of the Republic and the Generalitat, supported by the PSUC. The Republic recovered full control of Catalonia. |
1938 | 5 April | General Franco decreed the suppression of the Statute of Autonomy and the Generalitat of Catalonia. |
1939 | 5 February | Lluís Companys crossed the Franco-Spanish border, the Generalitat went into exile. |
1940 | 15 October | The president Lluís Companys was executed in Montjuïc Castle of Barcelona by firing squad in Francoist Spain. |
1971 | 7 November | Assembly of Catalonia. |
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. |
1983 | 8 September | Televisió de Catalunya founded. |
1992 | The 1992 Summer Olympic Games were held in Barcelona.[2] |
21st century
Year | Date | Event |
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2005 | PADICAT is established. | |
2006 | 9 August | Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006. |
2010 | 28 June | At the request of the conservative Popular Party, the Constitutional Court of Spain declared non valid many of the articles of the Statute of Autonomy. |
10 July | 2010 Catalan autonomy protest. | |
2013 | 11 September | Catalan Way. |
2014 | 9 November | 2014 Catalan self-determination referendum. |
2015 | 9 November | Declaration of the Initiation of the Process of Independence of Catalonia. |
2017 | 1 October | 2017 Catalan independence referendum. |
27 October | Independence declared. |
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See also
References
- Arenas 2012.
- "Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
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