Events in the year 1997 in Spain

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

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Juan Carlos I Juan Carlos I (;, * ca, Joan Carles I, * gl, Xoán Carlos I, Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 Novem ...

Prime Minister of Spain The prime minister of Spain, officially president of the Government ( es, link=no, Presidente del Gobierno), is the head of government of Spain. The office was established in its current form by the Constitution of 1978 and it was first regula ...

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José María Aznar José María Alfredo Aznar López (; born 25 February 1953) is a Spanish politician who was the prime minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He led the People's Party (PP), the dominant centre-right political party in Spain. A member of the Fre ...

Events

* 19 October – Galician regional election

Births

* 26 March –

Almudena Gallardo Almudena Gallardo Vicente (born March 26, 1979 in Madrid) is a Spanish archer who competed in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. Career Gallardo joined the Spanish national archery team in 1995 having won three consecutive national juni ...

, archer * 5 April —

Borja Mayoral Borja Mayoral Moya (; born 5 April 1997) is a Spanish professional professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Getafe. Formed at Real Madrid from the age of 10, he made his first-team debut in 2015 after featuring for the ...

, footballer * 28 April — Marina Cordobés, water polo player

References

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