1900 in Spain explained

Events in the year 1900 in Spain.

Incumbents

Monarch: Alfonso XIII, Maria Christina of Austria (Queen regent)
Prime Minister

Francisco Silvela (until 22 October), Marcelo Azcárraga (from 23 October)

Events

31 March — The Ministry of Education is created via a budget act as the Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts.
May – Two spiritualist newspapers, La Luz del Porvenir and Unión Espiritista Kardecista de Cataluña merge to form the paper Luz y unión.^[1]
14 May to 28 October – Spain competes at the modern Olympic Games for the first time at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
27 June – Representatives of the Kingdom of Spain and the French Third Republic sign the Treaty of Paris negotiating their colonial borders in Africa.
29 June – The Plaza de las Arenas opens in Barcelona.
31 July – Biscay Foral Delegation Palace is inaugurated in Bilbao.
15 October – The anarchist workers' union, Federation of Resistance Societies of the Spanish Region, is founded.
28 October – Sergeant Cesáreo García leads a failed insurrection in Badalona called the Carlist Sublevation.
7 November – The Treaty of Washington is signed, clarifying the Spanish Empire's cession of the Philippines as agreed by the 1898 Treaty of Paris.
11 November – The Catalan Football Federation is founded as the first football association in Spain.

Undated

Construction of Casa Calvet is completed and Gaudí's design wins the from the Barcelona government.
The Banco Hispano Americano is formed.

Births

1 January
- María Rosa Urraca Pastor, politician (died 1984)
- Xavier Cugat, musician (died 1990)
16 January – Juan López Sánchez, politician (died 1972)
21 January – Fernando Quiroga Palacios, Cardinal (died 1971)
24 February – Francisco Madrid, journalist and author (died 1952 in Argentina)
19 March – Josep Dencàs, politician (died 1966 in Morocco)
20 March – María Moliner, librarian and lexicographer (died 1981)
31 March – Amadeo Marco Ilincheta, politician (died 1987)
4 April — María del Rosario de Silva, Duchess of Alba, socialite (died 1934)
20 April – José Lino Vaamonde, architect (died 1986 in Venezuela)
29 April – Concha de Albornoz, feminist (died 1972 in Mexico)
16 May – Ángel Valbuena Prat, historian (died 1977)
11 June – Carmen Polo, wife of Francisco Franco (died 1988)
14 June – Eugenio Imaz, philosopher and translator (died 1951 in Mexico)
12 July – Manuel Antonio, poet (died 1930)
6 August – Josep Tomàs i Piera, politician (died 1976 in Mexico)
27 August – Guillermo de Torre, author (died 1971 in Argentina)
10 September – Juan Chabás, author (died 1954 in Cuba)
15 September – Paquita Madriguera, musician (died 1965 in Uruguay)
20 October – Rodolfo Halffter, composer (died 1987 in Mexico)
4 November – Juan Dotras Vila, composer (died 1978)
7 November – José Crespo, actor (died 1997)
12 November – José Maldonado González, politician (died 1985)
15 November – Marciano José, Martyr of Turon and canonized saint (died 1934)
18 November – José María Valiente Soriano, politician (died 1982)
26 December – José Gaos, philosopher (died 1969 in Mexico)
27 December – Juan de Orduña, director and actor (died 1974)

Deaths

4 January – Francisco Merry y Colom, diplomat (born 1829)
11 February – Jorge Loring, 1st Marquis of Casa Loring, businessman (born 1822)
23 March – Lorenzo Casanova, painter (born 1844)
23 September – Arsenio Martínez Campos, Prime Minister of Spain (born 1831)
24 November – Rafael Monleón, painter (born 1843)

References

Web site: Title: La Luz del porvenir (1879). 14 October 2021. Hemeroteca Digital. es.