1900 in Spain

Incumbents

• Monarch: Alfonso XIII, Maria Christina of Austria
• Prime Minister: Francisco Silvela, Marcelo Azcárraga

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.
• 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.
• 13 October – The anarchist trade union center, Federation of Workers' 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.

• 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
• *Xavier Cugat, musician
• 16 January – Juan López Sánchez, politician
• 21 January – Fernando Quiroga Palacios, Cardinal
• 24 February – Francisco Madrid, journalist and author
• 19 March
• * Carmen Carbonell, actress
• * Josep Dencàs, politician
• 20 March – María Moliner, librarian and lexicographer
• 31 March – Amadeo Marco Ilincheta, politician
• 4 April — María del Rosario de Silva, Duchess of Alba, socialite
• 20 April – José Lino Vaamonde, architect
• 29 April – Concha de Albornoz, feminist
• 16 May – Ángel Valbuena Prat, historian
• 11 June – Carmen Polo, wife of Francisco Franco
• 14 June – Eugenio Imaz, philosopher and translator
• 12 July – Manuel Antonio, poet
• 6 August – Josep Tomàs i Piera, politician
• 27 August – Guillermo de Torre, author
• 10 September – Juan Chabás, author
• 15 September – Paquita Madriguera, musician
• 20 October – Rodolfo Halffter, composer
• 4 November – Juan Dotras Vila, composer
• 7 November – José Crespo, actor
• 12 November – José Maldonado González, politician
• 15 November – Marciano José, Martyr of Turon and canonized saint
• 18 November – José María Valiente Soriano, politician
• 26 December – José Gaos, philosopher
• 27 December – Juan de Orduña, director and actor

Deaths

• 4 January – Francisco Merry y Colom, diplomat
• 11 February – Jorge Loring, 1st Marquis of Casa Loring, businessman
• 23 March – Lorenzo Casanova, painter
• 23 September – Arsenio Martínez Campos, Prime Minister of Spain
• 24 November – Rafael Monleón, painter