Events relating to spain

Antoni Gaudí completes his radical rebuilding of the Casa Batlló in Barcelona

A separatist party in Spain, Solidaridad Catalana, makes electoral gains in Catalonia

Antoni Gaudí completes an apartment block, the Casa Milá, in Barcelona

Antoni Gaudí completes the fanciful Park Güell, a residential project north of Barcelona based on the English concept of the garden city

Enrique Granados, on the last leg of his return from New York, is one of many civilians to die when the Sussex is torpedoed by a U-boat in the English Channel

Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí dies after being hit by a tram, with his masterpiece the Sagrada Familia unfinished

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali make Un Chien andalou, a surrealist film specifically designed to shock

Mies van der Rohe designs his famous Barcelona Chair for the German pavilion at the Barcelona World Fair

In his painting The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali provides the disturbing image of watches drooping from the edge of flat surfaces

Ernest Hemingway, an aficionado of the sport, publishes Death in the Afternoon, a non-fiction account of bullfighting in Spain

García Lorca writes his play Blood Wedding while he is director of a company touring in rural Spain

In the first month of the Spanish Civil War the playwright García Lorca is arrested and shot by rebel Falange militia

Francisco Franco is elected head of state of the insurgent Nationalist Spain, at this time controlling only a fraction of the country

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