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Former Catalan government president Carles Puigdemont returns to Barcelona, Spain, after seven years of "self-exile", defying an arrest warrant issued by the Supreme Court. Catalan regional police subsequently institute tight controls on traffic in and out of the city, as part of an attempt to arrest Puigdemont.
2024-08-8

An uncontrolled fire in the Spanish Catalan counties of Anoia and Conca de Barberà burns more than 1,100 hectares of land. The ashes reach Barcelona, 100 kilometers away from the focus of the fire while a confinement order is issued for two municipalities.
2021-07-25

Thousands of protesters, mostly supporters of the far-right party Vox, participate in car protests in Madrid, Seville, Barcelona and other cities against the continuing lockdown and the national government.
2020-05-23

Catalonia goes to a general strike in protest of the prison sentence of the Catalan independentists leaders. Thousands of demonstrators arrive walking to Barcelona from the whole region.
2019-10-18

At least 350,000 people attend a rally in Barcelona to oppose Catalan independence.
2017-10-8

Around a million people rally in Barcelona to mark the National Day of Catalonia and to support the upcoming independence referendum on 1 October.
2017-09-11

A 13-year-old boy uses a home-made crossbow to kill a teacher and wound four other people at his school in the city of Barcelona.
2015-04-20

A Germanwings flight crashes en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany, in a mountainous region of the Alps near Digne-les-Bains in Southern France leaving 150 dead. Rescue workers recover the damaged, but still usable, cockpit voice recorder.
2015-03-24

The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, agrees to spend 2.2 billion Euros to convert Barcelona's "La Monumental" bullring into a 40,000-capacity mosque, the biggest in Europe.
2014-06-24

A Spanish oil tanker hijacked off the coast of West Africa is freed, with no harm reportedly done to the crew, and no ransom paid to the pirates.
2011-09-24