Spanish Civil War

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• September 1936: Formentera conquered by Nationalists.
• August 1936: Battle of Almendralejo.
• July 1936: In 1936, Spanish Morocco experienced an army uprising led by General Francisco Franco and other Nationalist forces. By late evening, the rebels had taken control of the entire territory.
• July 1937: The International Brigades (IBs) took control of Quijorna, a town in Spain. The International Brigades were military units made up of volunteers from different countries who fought in support of the Second Spanish Republic against the Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco.
• April 1938: Battle of Gandesa.
• April 1939: The Spanish Republic was dissolved on 1 April 1939 after surrendering to the Nationalists. A military dictatorship under General Francisco Franco was established.
• November 1937: Battle of Sabiñánigo.
• March 1937: In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco advanced towards Madrid via Brihuega.
• July 1936: Pamplona, Zaragoza, Oviedo, Salamanca, Ávila, Segovia, and Cádiz fall in rebel hands.
• February 1939: Battle of Minorca (1939).
• August 1937: The Santoña Agreement was an agreement signed in the town of Guriezo, near Santoña, Cantabria, on August 24, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, between politicians close to the Basque Nationalist Party (Partido Nacionalista Vasco or PNV), fighting for the Spanish Republicans, and Italian forces, fighting for Francisco Franco. With the agreement, the remnant Basque County fell to the Nationalists.
• September 1936: The Nationalist rebellion succeeds in the island of Fernando Poo (Spanish Guinea).
• September 1936: The Basque city of Irún is taken by the Nationalists.
• September 1937: Battle of Belchite.
• July 1936: Seville fell to the rebels.
• September 1936: Ibiza was captured by the Nationalist Majorca garrison.
• June 1937: The Nationalists enter Bilbao without opposition.
• August 1936: Nationalist forces under Colonel Juan Yagüe attack and conquer Badajoz.
• September 1936: The Basques surrendered San Sebastián to the Nationalists rather than risk its destruction.
• August 1936: The Nationalists take Mérida.
• July 1937: Battle of Brunete.
• November 1936: The Nationalist army arrive in Madrid.
• March 1937: Republican divisions under Cipriano Mera and Enrique Líster with 60 T-26 tanks of the Pavlov Brigade take back Brihuega.
• July 1937: Republican troops take Villanueva del Pardillo.
• November 1937: Territorial gains by the Spanish Nationalists by October 1937.
• August 1936: Ibiza and Formentera are back in Republican hands.
• September 1936: Toledo falls to the Nationalists.
• September 1936: In Punta Amer and Porto Cristo, the Republicans were unable to withstand the Nationalist counterattack on the ground and fell back in confusion, abandoning their guns and equipment. Their evacuation began on September 5, and the Republicans held the beaches until September 12, when the last ship steamed off in retreat.
• October 1936: Nationalist troops from the Canary Islands disembarked at Bata and took control of the continental part of Spanish Guinea.
• July 1936: The Nationalist insurgents have control of the Spanish zones of Morocco, the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands except Menorca, as well as Spain north of the Sierra de Guadarrama and the Ebro River (except Asturias, Cantabria, the north of the Basque Country, and Catalonia).
• September 1936: A week after the retreat from Majorca, Cabrera had once again fallen to the Nationalists.
• July 1936: The town garrison of Oviedo, under the command of Colonel Antonio Aranda Mata, declared its support for the Nationalist uprising.
• December 1936: Villarreal Offensive.
• December 1936: Battle of Lopera.
• October 1936: Territorial gains by the Spanish Nationalists by September 1936.
• December 1938: Territorial gains by the Spanish Nationalists by December 1938.
• February 1937: Málaga taken by Franco's troops.
• April 1938: Battle of Lérida (1938).
• January 1937: Nationalists take Boadilla.
• July 1936: Vallehermoso, Santa Cruz de Tenerife in la Gomera, a village of 4000, was the last place in the Canary Islands to fall to the rebels.
• July 1936: Rebels took Majorca.

1. May Days

A series of clashes between 3 and 8 May 1937, when factions on the Republican side engaged each other in street battles in various parts of Catalonia, centered on the city of Barcelona.

• May 1937: 3-8 May 1937: a series of clashes between 3 and 8 May 1937, when factions on the Republican side engaged each other in street battles in various parts of Catalonia, centered on the city of Barcelona.

2. Asturias Offensive

Was a Nationalist offensive in Asturias during the Spanish Civil War.

• October 1937: Covadonga conquered by Nationalists.
• October 1937: The Nationalists entered Gijón, completing the occupation of Asturias.
• September 1937: Nationalists capture Llanes.
• October 1937: The Nationalist Navarrese Brigades enter Cangas de Onis.
• October 1937: On 14 October Arriondas fell to the Nationalists.
• September 1937: The Nationalists occupied Ribadesella.
• September 1937: Battle of El Mazuco.

3. Aragon Offensive

Was a Nationalist offensive in Aragon during the Spanish Civil War.

• March 1938: Battle of Caspe.
• March 1938: On March 25, Yagüe (Nationalists) took Fraga.
• April 1938: The Nationalists reached the Mediterranean at Vinaròs, dividing the Republican zone in two.

4. Catalonia Offensive

Was a Nationalist offensive in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War.

• January 1939: On January 24, 1939, General Garcia Valiño, a Nationalist military leader during the Spanish Civil War, occupied Manresa, a city in Catalonia.
• February 1939: On February 2, the Nationalists entered Girona.
• February 1939: The Nationalists occupied Figueres on February 8.
• January 1939: The Nationalists finally occupied Barcelona.
• January 1939: In 1939, during the Spanish Civil War, General Solchaga, a Nationalist military leader, attacked the town of Les Borges Blanques.
• January 1939: The Moroccan Corps after a one-day march of 50 km occupied Tarragona.
• February 1939: By February 9, the Nationalists reached the French frontier, and on the following day the last units of Modesto's Army of the Ebro crossed into France and the Nationalists sealed the frontier.
• January 1939: The Nationalist Aragon and Maestrazgo Corps conquered Cervera.

5. Final offensive of the Spanish Civil War

Was the final Nationalist offensive of the Spanish Civil War which resulted in the occupation of Madrid and the surrender of the Republicans.

• April 1939: By 1 April 1939, the Nationalists were in control of Spain and the civil war was effectively over.
• March 1939: The Nationalists occupied Valencia and Gambara’s troops entered Alicante.
• March 1939: The Nationalists occupied Jaén, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Albacete and Sagunto.
• March 1939: The Nationalists occupied Almeria, Murcia and Cartagena.
• March 1939: Colonel Prada, commander of the Army of the Centre, surrendered to the Nationalist troops, who occupied Madrid.