Sources: BBC
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez agrees to an amnesty deal with the Catalan separatist Together for Catalonia party in order to secure the necessary support for another term in office. The agreement causes protests in Madrid with the right-wing People's Party calling it a "humiliation" for the country. 2023-11-9
Two people are killed and twelve others are injured in a fire in a restaurant in Madrid, Spain. 2023-04-22
Two people are killed and eighteen others are injured when an explosion occurs in a residential building in Madrid, Spain. 2022-05-6
Spain reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant in a 44-year-old man who travelled from Brazil to Madrid on January 29 and later tested positive for COVID-19. 2021-02-5
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
Pro-independence Catalan leaders vowed to continue their efforts to secede from Spain, defying a ruling by the Madrid-based constitutional court that suspended a law defining a path for independence. 2015-11-11
Spanish actress and singer Sara Montiel dies in her Madrid residence at the age of 85. 2013-04-8
Spanish protesters known as the "Indignants" begin a march from Madrid to Brussels in Belgium to protest at cuts in government expenditure in Spain. 2011-07-27
World Youth Day 2011 organizers announce Pope Benedict XVI’s schedule of activities for the multi-day event, which will take place Aug. 18-21 in Madrid, Spain. 2011-02-10
In Great Britain, at least 29 flights from London Stansted Airport to Spain-Portugal-Canary Islands, at least seven flights from London Gatwick Airport to Alicante, Barcelona, Madrid and Portugal, and at least one flight from London Heathrow Airport to La Coruña are cancelled. 2010-05-8