Sources: BBC
An unusually strong and early heat wave increases temperatures above 40 C in Spain. Seville records a temperature of 41.0 C, beating its all-time high for May, while the hottest settlement, Andújar, ties the record with 42.3 C. Several settlements in France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and western Austria beat all-time high records for the month. 2022-05-20
Spanish Minister of Culture and Sport Màxim Huerta resigns after tax issues, becoming the minister with the shortest time in office in Spain. 2018-06-13
Princess Cristina of Spain is acquitted of fraud but her husband is convicted. 2017-02-17
In Sunday's elections, Spain's center-right ruling People's Party (PP) wins 123 seats (35.1%), and the center-left Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) takes 90 (25.7%) of the 350 seats in parliament, thereby ending Spain's two-party system since neither major party won an absolute majority. Turnout was 73 percent. Spain's new political forces, Podemos and Ciudadanos (C's), get 69 and 40 seats, respectively. Smaller parties split the remaining 28 seats, 17 to Catalonia parties which favor secession. It appears that a coalition government will be necessary. PSOE has declined to join the PP, which actually doesn't want that either. King Felipe, who ascended the throne in June 2014, is constitutionally empowered to mediate. 2015-12-21
Voters in the Spanish province of Catalonia go to the polls for regional elections with nationalist parties to gain a majority which they claim will allow them to declare independence. 2015-09-27
Andrew Moran, one of Britain's most wanted criminals, is arrested in Costa Blanca, Spain. 2013-05-12
France, Spain, Netherlands and Italy recall their ambassadors for more consultations. 2012-02-7
Thousands of people protest in Spain against a raid by Moroccan authorities in a camp in the disputed Western Sahara. 2010-11-14
95 people, including two former mayors and planning chief of Marbella, appear in court in Malaga in one of Spain's biggest corruption trials. 2010-09-27
Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón is suspended ahead of his trial. 2010-05-14