Closing ceremony, Summer Olympics. »

Opening ceremony, Summer Olympics. »

Massive, but peaceful, demonstrations on 1977-09-11 assembled over a million people in the streets of Barcelona to call for the restoration of Catalan autonomy. This was granted less than a month later. »

Lluís Companys, President of the (dissolved) Generality of Catalonia, executed at Montjuic Castle following his conviction under the Francoist (1939) Law of Political Responsibilities for his leading role in opposition to the “Glorious National Movement”. »

Execution of Francisco Ferrer Guardia at Montjuich gaol, convicted of instigating Tragic Week. »

In Catalonia, however, French forces achieved considerable success when Vendôme, commanding some 32,000 troops, besieged and captured Barcelona. The garrison capitulated on 10 August, but it had been a hard fought contest; French casualties amounted to about 9,000, and the Spanish had suffered some 12,000 killed, wounded or lost. [This article deals with the Nine [...] »