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Along with Asturias, Catalonia in general and Barcelona in particular was a center of radical labor agitation, marked by numerous general strikes, assassinations (especially in the late 1910s), and the rise of the pro-anarchist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labour, CNT, founded in Barcelona in 1910). [111]
Catalonia (/ ˌ k æ t ə ˈ l oʊ n i ə / ... The oldest known trace of human occupation is a mandible found in Banyoles, described by some sources [which?] as pre ...
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 ...
The origin of the earliest settlement at the site of present-day Barcelona is unclear. Remains from the Neolithic and early Chalcolithic periods have been found on the coastal plain near the city. The ruins of an early settlement have been excavated in the El Raval neighborhood, including different tombs and dwellings dating to earlier than ...
Proclamation of the Catalan Republic in Plaça de Sant Jaume by Francesc Macià, Barcelona, 14 April 1931. On 12 April 1931, local elections gave a large and unexpected majority in Catalonia (including Barcelona) to the Republican Left of Catalonia (Catalan: Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ERC), a party that had been founded three weeks earlier by the union of Macià's pro-independence ...
Captain General of Catalonia; Castellani people; Catalan Atlas; Catalan constitutions; Catalan Courts; Catalan peseta; Catalan Republic (1640–1641) Catalan Republic (1931) Catalan State (1873) Catalan State (1934) Catalonia and World War II; Catalan declaration of independence; Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia; Cessetani
Nicola Prentis moved from Madrid to Catalonia 8 years ago with her then-partner and young son. When she struggles to speak Catalan, she finds locals prefer switching to English than Spanish.
The decrees de jure ended the kingdoms of Aragon, Valencia and Mallorca, and the Principality of Catalonia, and merged them with Castile to officially form the Spanish kingdom. [8] A new Nueva Planta decree in 1711 restored some rights in Aragon, such as the Aragonese Civil Rights, but upheld the end of the political independence of the kingdom ...