The following is a timeline of Catalan history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Catalonia and its predecessor states and entities. To read about the background to these events, see History of Catalonia.
Treaty of Corbeil between James I and Louis IX of France. The French king renounced claims of feudal overlordship over Catalonia while James renounced his claims in Occitania, except Foix.
Last Catalan Courts, presided by Charles III of Habsburg, They recognized Philip as Count of Barcelona and established an important advance in the guarantee of individual, civil and political rights.
The representatives of the federal-republican committees of Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands had signed the Tortosa Pact to work together in order to establish the Spanish Federal Republic.
1873
9 May
The Provincial Deputation of Barcelona, controlled by federal-republicans, proclaimed an ephemeral Catalan State.
Events of Prats de Molló: Francesc Macià, leader of the independentist party Estat Català, tried to liberate Catalonia from France with a small army and proclaim the Catalan Republic, but he was betrayed and arrested.
The Parliament elected Macià as president of Catalonia.
1934
6 October
Lluís Companys, president of Catalonia, proclaimed the Catalan State of the Spanish Federal Republic. The Spanish army quickly suppressed the State and arrested Companys and the Catalan government. The autonomy was suspended.
May Days, clashes between the anarchists and POUM against the forces of the Republic and the Generalitat, supported by the PSUC. The Republic recovered full control of Catalonia.
1938
5 April
General Franco decreed the suppression of the Statute of Autonomy and the Generalitat of Catalonia.
1939
5 February
Lluís Companys crossed the Franco-Spanish border, the Generalitat went into exile.