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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: Archdiocese of Tarragona reestablished, the Catalan Church gained independence from the Archdiocese of Narbonne, in France ...
Romanization brought a second, distinct stage in the ancient history of Catalonia. Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus arrived in Empúries in 218 BC, with the objective of cutting off the sources of provisions of Hannibal's Carthaginian army during the Second Punic War. After the Carthaginian defeat, and the defeat of various Iberian tribes who ...
Print/export Download as PDF ... Pages in category "History of Catalonia" ... History of Catalonia * Timeline of Catalan history; 0–9. 1640 in Catalonia; 1641 in ...
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
17 January – The Junta de Braços (council of Estates) of the Principality of Catalonia, led by Pau Claris, accepts the proposal to establish the Catalan Republic under French protection. 23 January – In order to gain more military aid from France, the Junta de Braços proclaimed Louis XIII as Count of Barcelona. [1]
Catalonia saw the formation of the Alianza Obrera (Workers' Alliance), an anti-fascist organisation among whose aims was preparation for a revolution to establish a "federal" Spanish republic. [10] When Macià died at Christmas, Lluís Companys was elected president of Catalonia a week later on 1 January 1934. [11]
Catalonia was to prove to be the only commonwealth so formed. The first President of the Commonwealth of Catalonia was Enric Prat de la Riba and the second was the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch , both of the Lliga Regionalista , who led a programme to create an efficient infrastructure of roads and ports, hydraulic works, railways ...