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
760		Perpignan was conquered by the Franks from Muslim control. Establishment of the County of Roussillon.
785		Girona was conquered by the Franks from Muslim control. Establishment of the County of Girona.

9th century[]

Year	Date	Event
801		Barcelona was conquered by the Franks from Muslim control. Establishment of the County of Barcelona.
826		against Frankish nobility, devastating and depopulating most of Central Catalonia.
878		Wilfred the Hairy, count of Urgell and Cerdanya becomes Count of Barcelona Girona and Osona.
897		Muslim raid over the County of Barcelona. Count Wilfred died, creating the tradition of hereditary passage of their titles, founding the House of Barcelona.

10th century[]

Year	Date	Event
942		Hungarian raid.
985		Cordoba's ruler Almanzor sacks Barcelona.
988		Borrell II, Count of Barcelona not renewed allegiance to the French king Hugh Capet; ensuring the independence of the counties from Frankish monarchy.

11th century[]

Year	Date	Event
1018		Countess Ermesinde of Carcassonne became regent of Barcelona, Girona and Osona after the death of her husband, the count Ramon Borrell.
1027		First Assembly of Peace and Truce of God of Catalonia, in Toulouges (Roussillon), promoted and presided by Abbot Oliba.
1035		Mir Geribert led the nobility of the Penedès against the authority of the count, representing the height of the feudal revolution in Catalonia.
1035		Ramon Berenguer I, grandson of Ermesinde, became Count of Barcelona, he began a process of negotiation with the nobility in order to recover the authority, respecting the resulting new feudal order.

12th century[]

Year	Date	Event
1117		The first reference to Catalonia and the Catalans appeared in the Liber maiolichinus de gestis Pisanorum illustribus, a Pisan chronicle of the conquest of Majorca by a joint force of Italians, Catalans, and Occitans.
1118		The Archdiocese of Tarragona was reestablished, the Catalan Church gained independence from the Archdiocese of Narbonne, in France.
1137		Marriage between Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, and Petronilla, Queen of Aragon, creating the Crown of Aragon.
1148		Ramon Berenguer IV takes Tortosa from Muslim rule.
1149		Ramon Berenguer IV takes Lleida from Muslim rule.
1173		First documentary reference of the Usages of Barcelona, the first compilation of feudal legislation and the basis of Catalan law.
1192		First Assembly of Peace and Truce of God with representatives of the non-privileged estate, making it a precedent of the Catalan Courts.

13th century[]

Year	Date	Event
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 led by Simon de Montfort.
1229	5 September	Conquest of Majorca: James I the Conqueror led a fleet of some two hundred vessels and twenty thousand men from Salou, Cambrils and Tarragona to Majorca.
1249		Council of One Hundred of Barcelona established.
1258	11 May	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.
1258		James I granted the Carta Consular, the legal basis of the Consulate of the Sea, to the city of Barcelona.
1283		First regulated Catalan Courts, presided by Peter III. 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, founded.

14th century[]

Year	Date	Event
1318		Establishment of the Royal Archives in Barcelona.
1333		Lo mal any primer ("The first bad year"), great famine due to poor harvest.
1349		University of Perpignan founded.
1350		Catalan Courts of Perpignan. First official use in Courts of the term "Principality of Catalonia".
1358		First Fogatge (hearth tax) carried out in Catalonia.
1359		The Catalan Courts of 1359 created the Deputation of the General (Generalitat of Catalonia).

15th century[]

Year	Date	Event
1401		, 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, representatives of Catalonia, Aragon and Valencia elected Ferdinand of the Castilian House of Trastámara as the new King of Aragon.
1462		Outbreak of the Catalan Civil War.
1462		Outbreak of the First War of the Remences.
1472	24 October	, end of the Civil War with negotiated victory of the royal side.
1481		The 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	April	Christopher Columbus was received in the of Badalona by the Catholic Monarchs after his first voyage to America.
1493		Ferdinand II established a separate Royal Audience of Catalonia, the supreme court and seat of the government of the Principality.

16th century[]

Year	Date	Event
1519		Charles V presided the Catalan Courts and was recognized as Count of Barcelona.

17th century[]

Year	Date	Event
1626		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	6 January	Salses recovered to the French by the Spanish armies with large assistance of Catalan militia.
1640	7 June	Corpus de Sang in Barcelona, one of the initial events of the Reapers' War. Dalmau de Queralt, viceroy of Catalonia, was assassinated during the event.
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
1701		Catalan Courts presided by Philip V of Bourbon, they recognized Philip as Count of Barcelona and created the .
1705	20 June	between England and Catalonia.
	9 October	Grand Alliance armies took Barcelona.
	5 December	Last Catalan Courts, presided by Charles III of Habsburg, they recognized Charles as Count of Barcelona and represented an important progress in the guarantee of individual, civil and political rights.
1713	9 July	The Junta de Braços of Catalonia decided to remain on the fight against Philip V. Army of Catalonia raised.
1714	11 September	Fall of Barcelona to Bourbon army, after thirteen months of siege.
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.
1758		founded in Barcelona.

19th century[]

Year	Date	Event
1808	14 June	Second Battle of the Bruch, Spanish victory.
1809	12 December	Girona was taken by the French after seven months of siege.
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.
1833		Outbreak of the First Carlist War. Parts of inland Catalonia were in Carlist hands, while the Liberals retained the coastal areas.
1835		First Barcelona bullanga (popular revolt or riot) of the First Carlist War (Catalan: La primera onada de Bullangues).
1840	6 July	Carlist general Ramon Cabrera crossed the border to France, ending the First Carlist War.
1843		, last bullanga (uproar or riot) Les darreres bullangues de Barcelona, which vindicated a progressive political program.
1848	28 October	First railway construction in the Iberian Peninsula, linking Barcelona with Mataró.
1855	2 July	Catalan general strike, being the first carried out in Spanish history.
1859	May	The Floral Games were re-established, in the context of the Renaixença.
1869	18 May	Representatives of the federal-republican committees of Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands 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 radical federal-republicans, attempts to proclaim a Catalan State within the Spanish Federal Republic.
1888		1888 Barcelona Universal Exposition.
1892		, first proposal of self-government of Catalonia made by Catalan nationalism.

20th century[]

Year	Date	Event
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.
1909	25 July	Beginning of the Tragic Week.
1910	30 October	CNT, Anarcho-syndicalist trade union, founded in Barcelona.
1914	6 April	The Commonwealth of Catalonia was established. Enric Prat de la Riba was elected its first president.
1914		National Library of Catalonia opens to the public.^[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	: 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".
1931	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.
	20 November	The Parliament of Catalonia was elected for the first time, the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) won a large majority of seats.
	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.
	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.^[2]
1936	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.
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.
1952	27 May	35th International Eucharistic Congress held in Barcelona.
1971	7 November	founded.
1977	11 September	.
1977	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.
1980	24 April	The Parliament appointed Jordi Pujol (CiU) as president of the Generalitat of Catalonia.
1983	8 September	Televisió de Catalunya founded.
1992	25 July	1992 Summer Olympic Games held in Barcelona.^[3]

21st century[]

Year	Date	Event
2003	16 November	Election to the Parliament of Catalonia. The Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV-EUiA) were able to form a coalition government.
2003	16 December	The Parliament appointed Pasqual Maragall (PSC) as President of the Generalitat of Catalonia
2005		PADICAT is established.
2006	9 August	Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006.
2010	28 June	At the request of the conservative People's Party, the Constitutional Court of Spain declared non valid many of the articles of the Statute of Autonomy.
2010	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	17 August	Islamic terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils.
	1 October	2017 Catalan independence referendum.
	27 October	Independence declared.
	27 October	Spanish Senate invoked Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution and PM Mariano Rajoy declared the dissolution of the Catalan Parliament and dismissed Catalonia's Government.
2018	1 May	Quim Torra was elected President of Catalonia after the Spanish courts blocked the election of Carles Puigdemont, who had the support of the Catalan Parliament after the December election.

References[]

^ Arenas 2012.
^ La Vanguardia. 11 November 1934. Inauguración del Museo de Arte de Catalunya
^ "Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 July 2017.

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[inauguracio-2] La Vanguardia. 11 November 1934. Inauguración del Museo de Arte de Catalunya

[3] "Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 July 2017.

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