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

YearDateEvent
785Girona was conquered by the Franks from Muslim control. Establishment of the County of Girona.

9th century

YearDateEvent
801Barcelona was conquered by the Franks from Muslim control. Establishment of the County of Barcelona.
826Aissó Revolt against Frankish nobility.
878Wilfred the Hairy becomes Count of Barcelona. He created the tradition of hereditary passage of titles.
897Muslim raid over the County of Barcelona.

10th century

YearDateEvent
988Borrell II, Count of Barcelona not renewed allegiance to the French king Hugh Capet; he became de facto an independent count.

11th century

YearDateEvent
1027First Assembly of Peace and Truce of God of Catalonia, in Toulouges (Roussillon), promoted and presided by Abbot Oliba.

12th century

YearDateEvent
1118The Archdiocese of Tarragona was reestablished.
1137Marriage between Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, and Petronilla, Queen of Aragon, creating the Crown of Aragon.
1192First Catalan Courts.

13th century

YearDateEvent
121312 SeptemberBattle 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.
1249James I created the Council of One Hundred of Barcelona.
1258Treaty 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.
1283First Catalan constitutions.
128530 SeptemberBattle of the Col de Panissars (Catalan Pyrenees), decisive victory of the king Peter III of Aragon over French forces, during the Aragonese Crusade.
1300The University of Lleida, the first university of Catalonia and the Crown of Aragon, was founded.

14th century

YearDateEvent
1318Establishment of the Royal Archives in Barcelona.
1333Lo mal any primer (The first bad year), great famine due to poor harvest.
1350Catalan Courts of Perpignan. First official and explicit use of the term "Principality of Catalonia".
1359The Catalan Courts of 1359 created the Generalitat of Catalonia.

15th century

YearDateEvent
1401Taula de Canvi, first public bank of Europe, founded in Barcelona.
1410Martin I, last king of the House of Barcelona, died without heirs. Beginning of two-year interregnum.
1412Compromise of Caspe, parliamentary representatives of Catalonia, Aragon and Valencia elected Ferdinand of the Castilian House of Trastámara as the new King of Aragon.
1462Beginning of the Catalan Civil War.
147224 OctoberCapitulation of Pedralbes, end of the Civil War with negotiated victory of the royal side.
1481The Constitució de l'Observança was approved by the Catalan Courts, establishing the submission of royal power to the laws of the Principality Catalonia.
148621 AprilSentencia Arbitral de Guadalupe: the remença peasants were liberated from the majority of feudal abuses.
1493Christopher 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

YearDateEvent
1519Charles V presided the Catalan Courts and was recognized as Count of Barcelona.

17th century

YearDateEvent
16267 JuneThe Catalan Courts, presided by Philip IV, rejected the proposal of Union of Arms made by the royal favourite and minister Count-Duke of Olivares.
16407 JuneCorpus de Sang in Barcelona, one of the initial events of the Reaper's War.
164116 JanuaryPau Claris, President of the Generalitat proclaimed, according with the States-General of Catalonia, the Catalan Republic under French proteccion.
23 JanuaryIn order to gain more military aid from France, the States-General proclaimed Louis XIII as Count of Barcelona.
26 JanuaryBattle of Montjuïc, decisive Franco-Catalan victory over the Spanish armies.
1652Fall of Barcelona to the Spanish Royal army. The Principality was reincorporated into the Monarchy of Spain.
1659Treaty of the Pyrenees between Spain and France, the counties of Roussillon and the northern half of Cerdanya were ceded to France.
1687Revolt of the Barretines.

18th century

YearDateEvent
1701Catalan Courts presided by Philip V of Bourbon, they recognized Philip as Count of Barcelona and created the Court of Contraventions.
20 JuneTreaty of Genoa between England and Catalonia.
170511 SeptemberLast 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.
171411 SeptemberFall of Barcelona to Bourbon army.
1716Nueva 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.
1721Mossos d'Esquadra founded.

19th century

YearDateEvent
181212 JanuaryBy decree of Napoleon, Catalonia was incorporated to France and divided into four French departaments.
1814French troops evacuated Catalonia.
1832It was inaugurated in Barcelona the factory Bonaplata, the first of the country that worked with steam engine.
1835First bullanga, popular revolt in Barcelona.
1843Jamància, last bullanga, which revindicated a progressive political program.
184828 OctoberFirst railway construction in the Iberian Peninsula, linking Barcelona with Mataró.
1859MayThe Floral Games were re-established, in the context of the Renaixença.
186918 MayThe 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.
18739 MayThe Provincial Deputation of Barcelona, controlled by federal-republicans, proclaimed an ephemeral Catalan State.
18881888 Barcelona Universal Exposition.
1892Manresa Bases, first proposal of self-government of Catalonia made by Catalan nationalism.

20th century

YearDateEvent
1905May¡Cu-Cut! Affair. Officers of the Spanish Army, angry at the magazine for having published an offending joke, stormed the Cu-Cut! offices.
190925 JulyBeginning of the Tragic Week.
19146 AprilThe Commonwealth of Catalonia was established. Enric Prat de la Riba was elected its first president.
National Library of Catalonia established.[1]
1919FebruaryLa Canadiense strike. Among its consequences was to force the Spanish government to issue the first law limiting the working day to eight hours.
192520 MarchMiguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator, disbanded the Commonwealth of Catalonia.
19264 NovemberEvents 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.
193114 AprilFrancesc Macià proclaimed the Catalan Republic as state of the "Iberian Federation".
19329 SeptemberStatute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 1932. Catalonia becomes an autonomous region within the Spanish Republic.
20 NovemberThe Parliament of Catalonia was elected for the first time, the Republican Left of Catalonia won a large majority of seats.
14 DecemberThe Parliament elected Macià as president of Catalonia.
19346 OctoberLluís 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.
1936FebruaryAfter the Popular Front victory in the February 1936 Spanish general election, the Catalan government was pardoned and reinstated in their functions.
19 JulyMilitary 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.
19373 MayMay 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.
19385 AprilGeneral Franco decreed the suppression of the Statute of Autonomy and the Generalitat of Catalonia.
19395 FebruaryLluís Companys crossed the Franco-Spanish border, the Generalitat went into exile.
194015 OctoberThe president Lluís Companys was executed in Montjuïc Castle of Barcelona by firing squad in Francoist Spain.
19717 NovemberAssembly of Catalonia.
197711 September1977 Catalan autonomy protest.
23 OctoberThe exiled president of Catalonia, Josep Tarradellas, returned to Barcelona and the Generalitat of Catalonia was restored.
19798 SeptemberStatute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 1979.
19838 SeptemberTelevisió de Catalunya founded.
1992The 1992 Summer Olympic Games were held in Barcelona.[2]

21st century

YearDateEvent
2005PADICAT is established.
20069 AugustStatute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006.
201028 JuneAt 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 July2010 Catalan autonomy protest.
201311 SeptemberCatalan Way.
20149 November2014 Catalan self-determination referendum.
20159 NovemberDeclaration of the Initiation of the Process of Independence of Catalonia.
20171 October2017 Catalan independence referendum.
27 OctoberIndependence declared.

See also

References

  1. Arenas 2012.
  2. "Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 July 2017.


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