2019 in Spain

Events of the year 2019 in Spain.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Felipe VI
• Prime Minister: Pedro Sánchez

Regional presidents

• Andalusia: Susana Diaz (until 18 January), Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla (starting 18 January)
• Aragón: Javier Lambán
• Asturias: Javier Fernandez (until 18 July), Adrián Barbón (starting 18 July)
• Balearic Islands: Francina Armengol
• Basque Country: Iñigo Urkullu
• Canary Islands: Fernando Clavijo Batlle (until 11 July), Ángel Víctor Torres (starting 11 July)
• Cantabria: Miguel Ángel Revilla
• Castilla–La Mancha: Emiliano García-Page
• Castile and León: Juan Vicente Herrera (until 11 July), Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (starting 11 July)
• Catalonia: Quim Torra
• Extremadura: Guillermo Fernández Vara
• Galicia: Alberto Núñez Feijóo
• La Rioja: José Ignacio Ceniceros (until 29 August), Concha Andreu (starting 29 August)
• Community of Madrid:
• until 17 April: Ángel Garrido
• 17 April–17 August: Pedro Rollán (acting)
• starting 19 August: Isabel Díaz Ayuso
• Region of Murcia: Fernando López Miras
• Navarre: Uxue Barkos (until 6 August), María Chivite (starting 6 August)
• Valencian Community: Ximo Puig
• Ceuta: Juan Jesús Vivas
• Melilla: Juan José Imbroda (until 15 June), Eduardo de Castro (starting 15 June)

Events

• 16 February - Prime Minister Sánchez announced a snap election for 28 April 2019, After the 2019 General State Budget was voted down by the Congress of Deputies on 13 February 2019.
• 14 October - Supreme Court makes public the sentence of the trial of Catalonia independence leaders.
• 24 October - Former dictator Francisco Franco is exhumed from Valle de los Caídos.
• 7 November - 25-year-old woman Marta Calvo disappears in Valencia.

Deaths

January

• January 1
• Joan Guinjoan, Spanish composer and pianist (b. 1931)
• José Antonio Pujante, Spanish politician (b. 1964)
• January 3 – José Vida Soria, Spanish jurist and politician (b. 1937)
• January 4 – Francisco Olivencia, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
• January 17
• Vicente Álvarez Areces, 75, President of Asturias (1999-2011), Senator (since 2011) and Mayor of Gijón (1987-1999)
• Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias, 72, President of the European Court of Justice (1994–2003).
• January 20 – Lolo Rico, 83, television director and journalist
• January 24
• Elio Berhanyer, 89, fashion designer
• Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Spanish cardinal (b. 1929)
• January 25 – Jaume Traserra Cunillera, 84, Bishop of Solsona (2001-2010)

February

• February 4 – Isacio Calleja, Spanish footballer (b. 1936)
• February 28 – Xabier Arzalluz, Spanish lawyer and academic (b. 1932)

March

• March 3
• Martí Galindo, Spanish actor (b. 1937)
• José García Ladrón de Guevara, Spanish politician (b. 1929)
• March 8 – Jaume Muxart, Spanish painter (b. 1922)
• March 11 – Martín Chirino, Spanish sculptor (b. 1925)
• March 15 – Juan Manuel Arza Muñuzuri, Spanish politician and lawyer (b. 1932)
• March 24 – Pancracio Celdrán, Spanish professor, intellectual and journalist (b. 1942)
• March 29 – Josep Esteve i Soler, Spanish pharmaceutical executive (b. 1930)
• March 30 – Paloma Cela, Spanish actress (b. 1943)
• March 31 – José Antonio Gurriarán, Spanish journalist (b. 1938)

April

• April 13 – Neus CatalÃÂ, Spanish Holocaust survivor, anti-Franco militant and member of the French Resistance (b. 1915)
• April 24 – Conrado San Martín, Spanish actor (b. 1921)
• April 25 – Paloma Tortajada, Spanish broadcaster and journalist (b. 1965)

May

• May 9 – Manuel Giner Miralles, Spanish politician (b. 1926)
• May 10 – Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician (b. 1951)
• May 18 – Analía Gadé, Argentine actress (b. 1931)
• May 24 – Manuel Pazos, Spanish footballer (b. 1930)

June

• June 1 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (b. 1983
• June 4 – Antoni Roig Muntaner, Spanish chemist and politician (b. 1931)
• June 19 – Rafael de la Sierra, Spanish politician (b. 1948)
• June 22 – Concepción Paredes, Spanish athlete (b. 1970)
• June 30 – Armando Salas, Spanish cartoonist (b. 1946)

July

• July 2 – José Luis Merino, Spanish film writer and director (b. 1927)
• July 4
• Eduardo Fajardo, Spanish actor (b. 1924)
• Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, Spanish actor (b. 1929)
• July 5 – José Muñoz Sánchez, Spanish politician (b. 1962)
• July 21 – José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926)

August

September

October

See also

• 2019 European Parliament election

References