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Municipal elections revealed that the Spanish public was alienated from the monarchy
12 April 1931
King Alfonso XIII abdicated the throne and left Spain due to a ‘velvet revolution’
16 April 1931
Left wing coalition government in the Second Spanish Republic
June 1931 to November 1933
Right wing coalition government in the Second Spanish Republic
November 1933 to February 1936
Popular Front government in the Second Spanish Republic
February 1936 to July 1936
Right wing coalition government repealed the Law of Municipal Boundaries
May 1934
CEDA began to dominate the government when its leader Gil Robles was made War Minister
October 1934
Right wing coalition suppressed an uprising by miners in Asturia
1934
President Alcala-Zamora dissolved the parliament and called for a general election to take place in…
February 1936
Left wing parties worked together in the elections by not running candidates against each other
February 1936
The CNT called for a general strike
May 1936
Several strikes took place and Prime Minister Quiroga underestimated the seriousness of this
June 1936
Popular Front government assassinated right-wing monarchist Jose Calvo Sotelo
13 July 1936
Planned date for the coup led by the Spanish Military Union
18 July 1936
Coup by the Spanish Military Union, with aid from the British Royal Navy and Hitler
17 July 1936
Franco’s forces were airlifted from Morocco to southern Spain
July 1936
Britain and France began a policy of non-intervention
August 1936
Largo Caballero formed a new Republican government
4 September 1936
San Sebastian was taken from the Nationalists
13 September 1936
The Republic combined militias to make a new Popular Army
October 1936
Franco became leader of the Nationalist government and supreme military commander
1 October 1936
Soviet intervention began
29 October 1936
German and Italian planes bombed Madrid
29 October 1936
Republican government left Madrid, went to Valencia
6 November 1936
Nationalists abandoned their attempts to take Madrid
23 November 1936
Nationalist offensive failed to cut the links between Madrid and Valencia at the Battle of Jarama where Russian tanks and planes played a crucial role
February 1937
Malaga fell to the Nationalists
8 February 1937
Nationalist offensive to pressure Madrid from the North failed at the Battle of Guadalajara
Major defeat for the Italian army, enabled by Soviet equipment
March 1937
Franco united Carlists, Fascists and Monarchists into one movement
April 1937
German Condor Legion bombed and destroyed Guernica
26 April 1937
Fall of Largo Caballero
15 May 1937
Juan Negrin formed a new government
17 May 1937
Bilbao fell to the Nationalists, end of Basque independence
19 June 1937
Republican offensive to break the siege of Madrid coming from the west failed at Brunete
July 1937
Republican offensive to break out from Madrid to the north-east failed at Belchite
August 1937
Nationalists captured the rest of northern Spain
September to October 1937
Republican Popular Army captured Tereul in central Spain
December 1937
Nationalists retook Tereul and began an advance to the Mediterranean to cut Catalonia off from the rest of Spain
February 1938
Nationalists reached the Mediterranean at Vinaroz so succeeded in geographically splitting Republican Spain into two
April 1938
Republican offensive on the River Ebro failed
July 1938
Nationalists marched on Barcelona
November 1938
Barcelona fell to the Nationalists
February 1939
Nationalists entered Madrid
28 March 1939
Franco announced the end of the war
1 April 1939
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