Events in the year 2018 in

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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 ...

Felipe VI Felipe VI (;, * eu, Felipe VI.a, * ca, Felip VI, * gl, Filipe VI, . Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia; born 30 January 1968) is King of Spain. He is the son of former King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía, and h ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Mariano Rajoy Mariano Rajoy Brey (; born 27 March 1955) is a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018, when a vote of no confidence ousted his government. On 5 June 2018, he announced his resignation as People's Party lead ...

until June 1

Pedro Sánchez Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (; born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since June 2017, having pr ...

(since June 1)

Events

*Ongoing — 2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis *8 March —

2018 Spanish women's strike On 8 March 2018, International Women's Day, Spanish women went on strike for the day to denounce sexual discrimination, domestic violence and the wage gap. Description Participants, led by women's organizations and the trade unions, did not ...

. *10 June — Human Chain for Basque Self-determination, 2018. *12 June — the ship ''

Aquarius Aquarius may refer to: Astrology * Aquarius (astrology), an astrological sign * Age of Aquarius, a time period in the cycle of astrological ages Astronomy * Aquarius (constellation) * Aquarius in Chinese astronomy Arts and entertainment ...

'' carrying 629 migrants that were rescued near Libya was denied entry to the Sicilian port by Italy's new interior minister

Matteo Salvini Matteo Salvini (; born 9 March 1973) is an Italian politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport since 2022. He has been List of Federal ...

and

Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...

. The Spanish government offered the ''Aquarius'' the chance to dock in the secure port of Valencia, Spain and the Italian navy offered full assistance and a marine escort for the trip. *4 July — the Spanish Government accepted another NGO vessel, in this case a Spanish NGO called Open Arms carrying 60 migrants after Italy and Malta rejected again open a port for the ship. The same happened two weeks later. * 18 September – The sixth floor of the Hotel Ritz in Madrid collapses resulting in the death of one person while 11 others are injured. * 19 September – The

Mossos d'Esquadra The ''Mossos d'Esquadra'' (; en, Squad), also known as the ''Policia de la Generalitat de Catalunya'' and informally as ''Mossos'', is the autonomous police force responsible for law enforcement in Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia. ...

arrests in

Tarrassa Terrassa (, es, Tarrasa) is a city in the east central region of Catalonia, Spain, in the province of Barcelona, ''Comarques of Catalonia, comarca'' of Vallès Occidental, of which it is the co-capital along with Sabadell. The name ''Terrassa ...

a man for planning the assassination of the Prime Minister

who was, angry with the plans to exhume Franco. * 2 December - Vox 's results in the

2018 Andalusian regional election The 2018 Andalusian regional election was held on Sunday, 2 December 2018, to elect the 11th Parliament of the autonomous community of Andalusia. All 109 seats in the Parliament were up for election. As a result of the previous election, the Span ...

with 12 seats and 11% of the votes signalled the first time a far-right party had won seats in a regional parliament in Spain since the country's return to democracy, following the death of longtime dictator

Francisco Franco Francisco Franco Bahamonde (; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War ...

in 1975.

Deaths

*1 January –

Manuel Olivencia Manuel Olivencia Ruiz (25 July 1929 – 1 January 2018) was a Spanish lawyer with a career as a professor, economist, and diplomat. He worked at the University of Seville and organized Seville Expo '92. Early life Olivencia was born in Ronda, Pro ...

, economist and diplomat (b.

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

). *9 January –

Victoriano Ríos Pérez Victoriano Ríos Pérez (19 June 1930 – 9 January 2018) was a Spanish physician and politician. Born on 19 June 1930 in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, he attended the University of La Laguna, where he later taught. Ríos contested the 1986 Canary ...

, physician and politician (b. 1930) *14 January –

Pablo García Baena Pablo García Baena (; 29 June 1921 – 14 January 2018) was a Spanish poet. He was born and raised in Córdoba. In 1947, he formed an literary/artistic group called Cántico with his friends and fellow-writers Ricardo Molina, Juan Bernier, Ju ...

, poet (b. 1921) *22 January –

Emilio Gastón Emilio Gastón Sanz (8 January 1935 – 22 January 2018) was a Spanish politician, lawyer, and poet. A native of Zaragoza born in 1935, Gastón was a practicing lawyer. He was elected to the constituent Congress of Deputies as a representative of ...

, politician, lawyer, and poet (b. 1935) *7 April –

Ángel Peralta Pineda Ángel Peralta Pineda, known as Centauro de las Marismas (18 March 1926 – 7 April 2018), was a Spanish rejoneador. Career His public debut was in the Plaza de La Pañoleta (Seville) in 1945 and in Las Ventas in 1948 with a bull of Molero, ...

rejoneador Rejoneador (, pl. ''rejoneadores''; "lancer") is the name given to a bullfighter who fights the bull on horseback. The ''rejoneo'' is a form of bullfighting in Portugal and in Spanish bullfighting. Popular culture Mounted bullfighting is feat ...

(b. 1926). *18 April –

Luisa Pastor Lillo Luisa Pastor Lillo (10 October 1948 – 18 April 2018), was a Spanish politician. Passionate about the Moors and Christians festivities in San Vicente del Raspeig, she was a member of the "Moros Viejos" comparsa. In 1985 she was the standar ...

, politician (b. 1948) *24 April – Victor Garaigordóbil Berrizbeitia, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1915) *1 May – Javier Aller, actor (b. 1972). *5 May –

José María Íñigo José María Íñigo Gómez (4 June 1942 – 5 May 2018) was a Spanish journalist, radio and television presenter, and stage and screen actor. Biography Career Born in Bilbao, Íñigo began his professional career in his hometown as he was hi ...

, journalist, radio and television presenter, and stage and screen actor (b. 1942). *20 May –

Ramón Chao Ramón Luís Chao Rego (21 July 1935 – 20 May 2018) was a Spanish journalist and writer. He won the Premio de Virtuosismo for Piano in 1955. The same year he moved to Paris, France to study music with Nadia Boulanger and Lazare Lévy. In 1960 ...

, journalist (b. 1935) *7 June – José Marfil Peralta, soldier, writer, fighter in World War II, and Holocaust survivor (b. 1921).

References

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