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1930 Jan 28 General Primo de Rivera resigns
1931 Feb General Berenguer replaced by Admiral Aznar
Apr 12 Municipal elections, monarchists defeated in
major towns
Apr 14 Alfonso xiii leaves, Republic proclaimed
May 7 Segura’s pastoral attacking Republic
May 10 Madrid disturbance and church burning
Jan 16 Army reform legislation by Azaña
Jul 27 CNT strike in Seville crushed with artillery
Oct Legislation on church. catholic Republicans
resign and Azaña becomes prime minister
Oct 20 Law for the Defense of the Republic
Nov 19 Ex-King Alfonso condemned in absentia
1932 Jan 1 Civil guards killed by peasants of
Castilblanco
Jan Anarchist risign in Catalonia and CNT strikes.
Jesuits dissolved and divorce law introduced
Apr Cardinal Goma appointed archbishop of Toledo
Aug 10 Sanjurio’s pronunciamiento in Seville and
monarchist risign in Madrid fail
Sep Catalan statute of self-government and
agrarian reform legislation
1933 Jan 8 Casas Viejas massacre
Apr Azaña’s government fails in municipal
elections
Sep Azaña defeated. Cortes dissolved
Oct José Antonio Primo de Rivera founds Falange
Nov 5 Vote in Basque country on statute of self-
government. Navarre votes to stay out of
Basque federation
Nov 19 Right wins general elections. Lerroux prime
minister
Dec Anarchist rising in Catalonia and Aragon
1934 Feb Falange and JONS merge
Mar General strike in Saragossa
Mar 31 Mussolini promises arms to Carlists
Apr 22 Gil Robles’ CEDA organizes mass rally in
Escorial
Jun Agrarian strike in Andalucia and Estremadura
Sep 9 Covadonga rally by CEDA
Oct 1 Three CEDA ministers join new Lerroux
government
Oct 6 Rising in Catalonia and Madrid easily
suppressed. Rising in Asturias becomes
regional civil war
1935 Apr 1 Gil Robles and four other CEDA ministers in
new government led by Lerroux
Oct 29 Straperla scandal brings down Lerroux. Alcalà
Zamora refuses to call on Gil Robles. Military
plotting
Dec Chapaprieta government collapses. Alcalà
Zamora appoints Portela Valladares
1936 Jan 7 Cortes dissolved
Jan 15 Popular Front electoral platform agreed
Feb 26 Catalan Generalidad re-established under
Companys
Mar Falange attacks on Socialist leaders
Mar 15 Falange banned, José Antonio arrested
Mar Army warns government about disorders
Hitler reoccupies Rhineland
Apr 1 Communist and Socialist Youth merged
Apr 10 Azaña elected president
Capture of Addis Ababa by Italians
May 12 Casares Quiroga appointed prime minister
Mar 13 Elections of Popular Front government in
France. Blum to be prime minister
Jun Building strike in Madrid. Agrarian strikes in
southern Andalucia
Jun 16 Calvo Sotelo speech on disorder in Cortes
Jul 13 Killing of Calvo Sotelo
Jul 17 Rising starts in Morocco
Jul 18 Rising starts in mainland. Casares Quiroga
resigns
Jul 19 Rising crushed in Madrid and Barcelona.
Martinis Barrio resigns. Giral premier. Orders
arming of workers
Jul 20 Giral appeals to Blum for weapons. Franco
sends emissaries to Hitler. general Sanjurio
killed in air crash on leaving Portugal for
Burgos
Jul 27 Airlift from Morocco begins with German and
Italian planes
Aug 8 French stop arms sales to Republican
government. Start of nonintervention policy
Aug 14 Yangüe’s colonial troops capture Badajoz
Aug 24 Non-intervention policy accepted in theory by
German, Portugal and Italy
Aug 27 Rosenberg and other Russian officials arrive
Sep 3 Army of Africa captures Talavera de la Reina
Sep 4 Largo Caballero forms government
Sep 5 Beorlegui’s troops capture Irún
Sep 6 Italian air force units arrive in Mallorca
Sep 7 Aguirre forms Basque government
Sep 9 Non-Intervention Cammittee (NIC) formed in
London
Sep 13 San Sebastián occupied by Nationalists
Sep 26 Generalidad government formed
Sep 27 Capture of Toledo and relief of Alcázar by
Varela’s troops
Oct 1 Franco installed ad head of government and
generalissimo at Burgos. Cortes passes Basque
statute
Oct 7 Uribe’s Agrarian decree on collectives and
expropriation
Oct 10 Popular Army decree
Oct 15 Commissar system established in army
Oct 25 Spanish gold reserves reach USSR
Oct 28 Maisky declares to NIC that USSR will not be
bound by policy
Oct 29 Russian aircraft and tanks appear; German and
Italian bombers start raids on Madrid
Nov 4 Getafe falls, and Russian fighters appear over
Madrid sector
Nov 6 Cabinet decides to leave for Madrid. Miaja’s
junta established
Nov 8 Varela’s assault on north-west flank of Madrid
held. XI International Brigade arrives
Nov 9 Varela switches attack to Carabanchel sector
Nov German forces reinforced and reconstituted
into the Condor Legion
Nov 18 Germany and Italy recognize Burgos
administration. Major attack on Madrid
Nov 20 Durruti dies from wound. José Antonio executed
in Alicante
Nov 23 nationalist commanders call off assault on
madrid
Dec 13 nationalists launch offensive on Corunna Road
Dec 23 Council of Aragon recognized by Valencia
government
Dec 25 German-Japanese anti-Comintern pact
Dec 31 Anglo-Italian ‘gentleman’s agreement’
1937 Jan 3 Nationalists re-start Corunna road offensive,
which continues until Jan 15
Jan 17 Nationalist offensive on Malaga begins
Feb 6 Nationalists begin Jarama offensive. Continues
until Feb 28
Feb 8 Fall of Málaga
Feb 21 Gen. Asensio Torrado sacked. largo Caballero
asks for recall of Russian ambassador
Rosenberg
Mar 8 Italian CTV starts Guadalajara offensive
Mar 18 Battle of Brihuega. Italian retreat
Mar 31 Mola’s offensive in North begins
Apr 19 Franco merges Falange and Carlists into FET.
NIC naval patrol and border watch established
Apr 22 Bilbao blockade broken
Apr 23 Dissolution of Madrid council of defense
Apr 26 Destruction of by Condor Legion
May 2-6 May events in Barcelona
May 15 Fall of Caballero government
May 17 Negrín cabinet formed
Neville Chamberlain becomes prime minister in
UK
May 29 Deutschland incident
May 30 Republican offensive on Segovia
Jun 3 Mola killed in air crash
Jun 16 POUM leaders arrested
Jun 19 Fall of Bilbao to Nationalists
Jun 23 Germany and Italy withdraw from NIC naval
patrol
Jun 30 Portugal ends frontier control
Jul 1 Collective letter from Spanish bishops
Jul 6 Start of Republican’s Brunete offensive.
Continues until Jul 24
Jul 12 France ends NIC frontier control
Aug 11 Council of Aragon dissolved by decree.
Lister’s II Division crushes agricultural
collectives
Aug Italian submarine offensive
Aug 15 Prieto constitutes SIM
Aug 24 Santander surrounded. Republican offensive on
Saragossa begins. Battle of Belchite
Oct 1 Split in UGT. Caballero ousted
Oct 7 Papal Nuncio appointed to Burgos junta
Oct 20 Nationalists capture Gijón
Oct 31 Republican government moved from Valencia to
Barcelona
Nov 6 Italy joins anti-Comintern pact
Nov 16 British agent appointed to Burgos
administration
Dec 15 Teruel offensive launched by Republic as
diversion to nationalist offensive planned on
Guadalajara
Dec 29 nationalist counter-attack
1938 Jan 30 Nationalist decree confirming Franco’s powers.
Burgos government constituted
Feb 22 Nationalists recapture Teruel after flank
offensive on Alfambra
Feb 25 Halifax becomes British Foreign secretary
after Eden resigns
Mar 9 nationalist offensive in Aragon begins.
nationalist ‘Labour Charter’
Mar 10 Anschluß. Hitler marches into Austria
Mar 12 Blum prime minister again. French frontier
opened to war materials
Mar 16 Intense Italian bombing raids on Barcelona.
Communist demonstration to bring down Prieto
Apr 6 Prieto’s resignation obtained by Negrín
Apr 15 Nationalists reach Mediterranean at Vinaroz
Apr 16 Anglo-Italian agreement signed
Apr 30 Negrín 13 Points announced
May Nationalists extend gains on southern side of
corridor to sea
Jun 13 Daladier closes French frontier on British
pressure
Jul 5 Nationalist offensive towards Valencia.
Withdrawal of volunteers agreed in principle
by NIC
Jul 25 Popular Army crosses Ebro and advances on
Gandesa
Jul 26 Republic accepts British withdrawal of
volunteers proposals
Aug 16 Republican cabinet crisis with resignations of
Ayguadé and Irujo. Negrín and communists
organize show of strength in Barcelona
Sep 21 Negrín’s speech to League of nations
announcing withdrawal of International
Brigades
Sep 30 Munich agreement
Oct 11 POUM trial until Nov 1
Nov 8 Republican army withdrawal across Ebro until
Nov 15
Nov 15 Farewell parade to International Brigades in
Barcelona
Nov 16 Anglo-Italian Agreement comes into force
Dec 23 Nationalist assault on Catalonia begins
1939 Jan 3 Decisive nationalist breakthroughs in southern
Catalonia
Jan 15 Tarragona falls
Jan 26 nationalist troops occupy Barcelona
Feb 1 Last meeting of Cortes at Figueras
Feb 5 Genoa falls to Nationalists. French government
allows Republican troops to cross frontier
Feb 16 Negrín meets Republican military leaders at
Los Llanos
Feb 21 Nationalist Spain signs anti-Comintern pact
secretly (announced publicly Mar 27)
Feb 27 Britain and France recognize Burgos government
Feb 28 Azaña resigns presidency
Mar 2 Casado and Matallana summoned by Negrín to
Elda
Mar 3 Negrín’s appointments of communist officers to
all key posts
Mar 5 Republican fleet leaves port. Valencia resists
Lister. Casado’s national Defence Council
established in Madrid
Mar 10 Mera’s troops surround communists in Madrid
Mar 28 Nationalist troops enter Madrid
Mar 31 Nationalist troops occupy final objectives.
Non-aggression pact signed with Salazar regime
in Portugal. Five-year treaty of friendship
signed with Germany