2018 in Spain

Events

10 June – Human Chain for Basque Self-determination, 2018.^[3]
12 June – the ship Aquarius carrying 629 migrants that were rescued near Libya was denied entry to the Sicilian port by Italy's new interior minister Matteo Salvini and Malta.^[4]^[5] 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.^[6]^[7]

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.^[8] The same happened two weeks later.^[9]

18 September – The sixth floor of the Hotel Ritz in Madrid collapses resulting in the death of one person while 11 others are injured. ^[10]

19 September – The Mossos d'Esquadra arrests in Tarrassaa man for planning the assassination of the Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez who was, angry with the plans to exhume Franco.
2 December – Vox 's results in the 2018 Andalusian regional election 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 in 1975.^[11]^[12]
4 December – A Spanish institutional crisis surrounding the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) begins.^[13]

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Deaths

1 January – Manuel Olivencia, economist and diplomat (b. 1929).^[14]
9 January – Victoriano Ríos Pérez, physician and politician (b. 1930)
14 January – Pablo García Baena, poet (b. 1921)
22 January – Emilio Gastón, politician, lawyer, and poet (b. 1935)
7 April – Ángel Peralta Pineda, rejoneador (b. 1926).^[15]
18 April – Luisa Pastor Lillo, politician (b. 1948)
24 April – Victor Garaigordóbil Berrizbeitia, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1915)
1 May – Javier Aller, actor (b. 1972).^[16]
5 May – José María Íñigo, journalist, radio and television presenter, and stage and screen actor (b. 1942).^[17]
20 May – Ramón Chao, journalist (b. 1935)
7 June – José Marfil Peralta, soldier, writer, fighter in World War II, and Holocaust survivor (b. 1921).^[18]

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