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1976
Events in the year 1976 in Spain.
Incumbents
Monarch – Juan Carlos IJuan Carlos: Spain's ex-king to return after two-year exile https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61502609 BBC News 19 May 2022 18 May 2022
Prime minister – Carlos Arias Navarro, until 1 JulyCarlos Arias Navarro: prime minister of Spain https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carlos-Arias-Navarro Britannica 19 May 2022 en
Prime minister – Adolfo Suárez, from 5 JulyFotheringham Alasdair 23 March 2014 Adolfo Suarez: Spain's first democratically elected Prime Minister who oversaw the transition from the country's Franco years https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/adolfo-suarez-spain-s-first-democratically-elected-prime-minister-who-oversaw-transition-country-s-franco-years-9212529.html limited live https://web.archive.org/web/20210130105006/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/adolfo-suarez-spain-s-first-democratically-elected-prime-minister-who-oversaw-transition-country-s-franco-years-9212529.html 2021-01-30 24 January 2021 The Independent
Events
9 January – The Ministry of Development Planning is dissolved.
28 February – The Spanish government relinquishes control of the Spanish Sahara, the final colony of the Spanish Empire.1976 Spanish Sahara Decolonized – But is it Liberated? Middle East Research and Information Project Reports 44 22 10.2307/3011716 3011716
16 February – The Barcelona Convention is adopted, aiming to reduce pollution in the Mediterranean Sea.
3 March – 150 people are injured and 5 die following a police shooting at a church in Vitoria-Gasteiz during the Vitoria massacre.
5 April – 29 political prisoners escape in the Segovia prison break.
4 May – The daily newspaper El País is published for the first time.Breve historia de es El País (in Spanish), El País. https://web.archive.org/web/20130520084349/http://www.elpais.com/especiales/2006/30aniversario/index.html 20 May 2013.
9 May
Imperial Iranian Air Force Flight 48 crashes on its approach to Madrid.
Two are killed in the Montejurra massacre in Navarre.Muñoz Ismael López 1976-05-11 Tiros desde Montejurra en la niebla contra una multitud indefensa https://elpais.com/diario/1976/05/11/espana/200613633_850215.html El País es 1134-6582
1 July – Prime minister Carlos Arias Navarro is forced to resign following pressure from Juan Carlos I.
5 July – Adolfo Suárez becomes the new prime minister, ending the Second government of Carlos Arias Navarro.
8 July – The first government of Adolfo Suárez is formed.
4 October – 5 people die during the Assassination of Juan María de Araluce Villar, part of the ongoing Basque conflict.Ceberio Jesús 1976-10-05 ETA reivinca el atentado https://elpais.com/diario/1976/10/05/espana/213318030_850215.html El País es 1134-6582
15 December – 97.4% of the population votes in favor of The Political Reform Act through the 1976 Spanish political reform referendum.Referéndum sobre el Proyecto de Ley para la Reforma Política http://www.congreso.es/consti/elecciones/referendos/ref_r_p.htm 1 September 2019 congreso.es Congress of Deputies Spanish
Births
25em
2 January – Paz Vega, actor
12 January – La Shica, musician
20 January – David DeMaría, musician
3 February – Rocío Orsi, philosopher (died 2014)
17 February – Daniel Grao, actor
18 February – Házael González, author
20 February – Raulo Cáceres, comic artist
2 March – Emmanuel Esparza, actor
9 March – Carmen Montón, politician
12 March – María Adánez, actor
1 April – Emma Ríos, comic artist
14 April – Santiago Abascal, politician
17 May – Mayte Martínez, athlete
30 May – Alejandro Fernández (politician), politician
2 June – Blanca Romero, actor
17 June – Carolina Pascual, gymnast
18 June – Irene Montalà, actor
20 June – Alícia Romero, politician
21 June – Ivó Giner, golfer
24 June – David Bagration of Mukhrani, disputed Head of the Royal House of Georgia
3 July – Laura Vilagrà, politician
8 July – Maider Etxebarria, politician
18 July – Elsa Pataky, model and actor
22 July – José María Espejo-Saavedra Conesa, politician
25 July – Unai Hualde, politician
10 August – Pablo Derqui, actor
19 August – Elsa Artadi, politicians
25 August – Susana Seivane, musician
26 August – Amaia Montero, musician
4 September – Iván Massagué, actor
16 September – Mónica Carrillo, journalist
19 October – Xabier Fernández, sailor
20 October – Patricia Rueda Perello, politician
26 October – Jordi Solé i Ferrando, politician
10 December – Álvaro Benito, footballer and musician
17 December – Roger Casamajor, actor
27 December – Asier Antona Gómez, politician
Deaths
6 January – Óscar Esplá, composer (born 1886)
17 February – Clementina Arderiu, poet (born 1889)
30 June – Federico Romero, poet (born 1886)
13 July – Jesús Rubio García-Mina, politician (born 1908)
2 August – Cecilia, musician (born 1948)
26 August – Tomás Borrás, author (born 1891)
22 October – Alejandro Rodríguez de Valcárcel, politician (born 1917)
16 November – Antonio Arrúe Zarauz, politician (born 1903)
25 November – Fernando María Castiella, politician (born 1907)
4 December – Pepe Marchena, flamenco singer (born 1903)
See also
1976 in Spanish television
List of Spanish films of 1976
List of Spanish number-one singles in 1976
References
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