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The Spanish government and regional authorities agree to allow bars and nightclubs to reopen for the first time in 10 months, with these establishments on regions with below 50 case rate per 100,000 population over 14 days can be open until 3:00 a.m. with 50% capacity.
2021-06-2

The Catalan government is formed after months of negotiations, with Pere Aragonès becoming the 132nd President, the first from the Republican Left of Catalonia in forty years and the youngest in the institution's seven-hundred-year history. Aragonès pledges to immediately restart independence talks with the Spanish government.
2021-05-21

15,000 demonstrators gather in Barcelona, Spain, to support the mock region of Tabarnia—a hypothetical area that includes the least independentist areas of Catalonia—as a way to oppose Catalan independence and the declaration of independence on October 27.
2018-03-4

Voters in Catalonia go to the polls for a snap election called by the Spanish government after the former regional government unsuccessfully declared independence.
2017-12-21

Catalonia declares independence from Spain as the Catalan Republic.
2017-10-27

President of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont gives a speech regarding independence from Spain where he proposes to suspend the effect of the independence declaration in order to hold talks with Madrid.
2017-10-10

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy deploys the 41st Logistic Support Group of the Spanish Armed Forces in Catalonia to support riot police in Barcelona.
2017-10-4

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 Constitutional Court of Spain agrees to hear an appeal by the national government against a bid for independence by Catalonia suspending legal bids for secession.
2015-11-11

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