2008 in Spain
The following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Kingdom of Spain.
Incumbents
Regional presidents
- Andalusia: Manuel Chaves
- Aragón: Marcelino Iglesias
- Asturias: Vicente Álvarez Areces
- Balearic Islands: Francesc Antich
- Basque Country: Juan José Ibarretxe
- Canary Islands: Paulino Rivero
- Cantabria: Miguel Ángel Revilla
- Castilla–La Mancha: José María Barreda
- Castile and León: Juan Vicente Herrera
- Catalonia: José Montilla
- Extremadura: Guillermo Fernández Vara
- Galicia: Emilio Pérez Touriño
- La Rioja: Pedro Sanz
- Community of Madrid: Esperanza Aguirre
- Region of Murcia: Ramón Luis Valcárcel
- Navarre: Miguel Sanz
- Valencian Community: Francisco Camps
- Ceuta: Juan Jesús Vivas
- Melilla: Juan José Imbroda
Events
- March 9 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is reelected as Prime Minister after defeating Mariano Rajoy.
- April 5 – Greenpeace announces that in November 2007 a radioactive leak was reported at the Ascó Nuclear Power Plant, but it was kept hidden from the press.
- August 20 – Spanair flight 5022 crashed just after takeoff from runway 36L of Barajas Airport, killing 154 of the 166 people on board.
- December 31 – A truck-bomb explodes near the EITB headquarters in Bilbao.
- 942 Dakar, historia de una familia, a documentary film is released.
Births
Deaths
- February 26 – Rogelio Baón, politician
- May 3 – Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Prime Minister