1975 in Spain

Incumbents

• Caudillo: Francisco Franco
• Monarch – Juan Carlos I
• Prime minister – Carlos Arias Navarro

  Events

• 27 September – Last use of capital punishment in Spain when five people from militant groups were executed by firing squads.
• 30 October – Juan Carlos I becomes acting head of state due to the ill health of Francisco Franco.
• 14 November – Madrid Accords: Spain agrees to hand over power of the Spanish Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania by the end of February 1976.
• 22 November – Juan Carlos I becomes king of Spain two days after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco who had been in power since 1939.

  Deaths

• 20 November – Francisco Franco, dictator