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This multilingual on-this-day almanac for Barcelona aims to provide a timeline of events for the last thousand years and in a certain sense be the best online resource for the history of Barcelona. A work in progress, it currently contains 679 entries, taken from 83 contemporary and historical sources.

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• 1992-08-09
• 1977-09-11
• 1987-06-16
• 1987-05-13
• 1987-10-14
• 1987-12-26
• 1991-10-07
• 1992-07-25
• 1978-01-25
• 1978-03-07

el nuevo libro verde de barcelona

• 1563/05/09

  Jousts in the Born.Justas en el Born.... [more]
  Juan Cortada & José de Manjarrés with Josefina Roma (1848). El libro verde de Barcelona. Añalejo de costumbres populares, fiestas religiosas y profanas, usos familiares, efemérides de los sucesos mas notables acaecidos en Barcelona. Barcelona: Sauri. [Private collection: GBS OCR too poor to use.] [more]

• 1706/05/09

  This morning came in two Dutch posts, which advise, From Paris, that they had letters from Barcelona, that the French entred fort Montjoui the 26th past, the garrison having quitted it for fear of a general assault; that they were preparing their attacks against the town, which still makes a stout defence: that conde do Cifuentes, with some... [more]
  Narcissus Luttrell (1857). A brief historical relation of state affairs from September 1678 to April 1714, vol vi. Oxford: OUP. [more]

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