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Two people are killed and twelve others are injured in a fire in a restaurant in Madrid, Spain.
2023-04-22

After a final tally of votes from yesterday's referendum establishes a majority of 77%, abortion at up to 12 weeks of pregnancy is legalized in San Marino.
2021-09-27

A seaplane incident involving the French power grid causes a blackout affecting more than one million users in 9 regions, mostly in Spain, but also in some regions of Portugal.
2021-07-24

An explosion caused by a gas leak at a residence for priests in Madrid, Spain results in four fatalities and injures ten others. It also partially destroys the residence.
2021-01-20

Spain's Ministry of Health reports 832 more deaths from COVID-19, the highest daily death toll in the country to date, bringing the country's death toll to 5,690, as confimed cases rise to 72,248.
2020-03-28

The government of Catalonia holds a public referendum on whether their region should gain independence from Spain, despite the Spanish courts and government declaring the vote illegal and deploying police to deter voters. Catalan President Carles Puigdemont says Catalonia "has won the right to become an independent state."
2017-10-1

The Royal Navy's Sabre 6 fires warning shots at a Spanish Guardia Civil vessel after it twice attempted to cut across the path of United States Navy submarine Florida 6 during an incursion into Gibraltar's territorial waters. Gibraltar officials say Spanish vessels regularly stray deep into its territorial waters and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has attacked the incursions as provocative.
2016-05-5

Artur Mas i Gavarró, the President of the Spanish region of Catalonia, authorises a referendum on independence on November 9 despite the opposition of the Government of Spain.
2014-09-27

Pope Francis appoints Spain's José Rodríguez Carballo, O.F.M., as Secretary to the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, which oversees all Catholic religious orders, his first nomination to the Vatican bureaucracy.
2013-04-6

Voters in Spain go to the polls for a general election, with the centre-right Popular Party winning a parliamentary majority.
2011-11-20