Antoni Gaudí completes his radical rebuilding of the Casa Batlló in Barcelona

A separatist party in Spain, Solidaridad Catalana, makes electoral gains in Catalonia

Isaac Albéniz completes his series of 12 piano pieces published under the title Iberia.

15-year-old Andrés Segovia gives his first public performance as a guitarist in Granada

Antoni Gaudí completes an apartment block, the Casa Milá, in Barcelona

Spanish composer Enrique Granados completes his Goyescas, seven pieces for piano

France and Spain agree that Spain shall become the colonial power in the north of Morocco and France in the south

The Spanish government grants a degree of administrative autonomy to four provinces of Catalonia

Antoni Gaudí completes the fanciful Park Güell, a residential project north of Barcelona based on the English concept of the garden city

Spain declares a policy of neutrality in the rapidly developing European war

The opera Goyescas, by Spanish composer Enrique Granados, has its premiere in New York

Enrique Granados, on the last leg of his return from New York, is one of many civilians to die when the Sussex is torpedoed by a U-boat in the English Channel

Manuel de Falla completes his piece for piano and orchestra, Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Military leader Miguel Primo de Rivera takes power in Spain in a military coup

Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí dies after being hit by a tram, with his masterpiece the Sagrada Familia unfinished

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali make Un Chien andalou, a surrealist film specifically designed to shock

García Lorca wins fame with his book of poems Gypsy Ballads

Mies van der Rohe designs his famous Barcelona Chair for the German pavilion at the Barcelona World Fair

In his painting The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali provides the disturbing image of watches drooping from the edge of flat surfaces

Ernest Hemingway, an aficionado of the sport, publishes Death in the Afternoon, a non-fiction account of bullfighting in Spain

García Lorca writes his play Blood Wedding while he is director of a company touring in rural Spain

García Lorca writes his play The House of Bernarda Alba in the last year of his short life

A rebellion by Spanish troops in Morocco is soon led by Francisco Franco and sparks the Spanish Civil War

In the first month of the Spanish Civil War the playwright García Lorca is arrested and shot by rebel Falange militia

Francisco Franco is elected head of state of the insurgent Nationalist Spain, at this time controlling only a fraction of the country