1640 in Catalonia
List of events
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Incumbents
- Count of Barcelona â Philip III (suspended after 10 September)
- President of the Generalitat of Catalonia â Pau Claris
Events
- 28 January â The Spanish armies recovered the castle of Salses from French occupation.
- FebruaryâMay â The Spanish soldiers remained in Catalonia, and the tensions between troops and Catalan peasants, who were forced to quarter them, increased.
- 3 May â Riudarenes, a village near to Girona, was burn by Spanish soldiers.
- 14 May â Santa Coloma de Farners was burnt by Spanish soldiers.
- 22 May â Rebels liberated the deputy of the Generalitat Francesc de Tamarit from prison.
- 7 June â Corpus de Sang.[1] The reapers stationed in Barcelona and Sant Andreu del Palomar started a riot in which the Viceroy of Catalonia, Dalmau de Queralt, Count of Santa Coloma was killed.
- 7 September â Pact of Ceret between the Principality of Catalonia and the Kingdom of France, establishing a Franco-Catalan alliance.
- 10 September â Pau Claris, President of the Generalitat, summit the members of the Catalan Courts in order to form a Junta de Braços or Braços Generals (States-General), an extraordinary council, which assumes the sovereignty and suspends the Monarchy.
- 16 December â On its way to Barcelona, Spanish armies perpetrate the Cambrils massacre.