2023 in Spain

Events in the year 2023 in Spain.

Incumbents

Monarch: Felipe VI
Prime Minister: Pedro Sánchez
President of the Congress of Deputies:
* Meritxell Batet
* Francina Armengol
President of the Senate of Spain:
* Ander Gil
* Pedro Rollán
Supreme Court (Spain)|President of the Supreme Court]: Francisco Marín Castán
Constitutional Court (Spain)|President of the Constitutional Court]:
* Pedro González-Trevijano
* Cándido Conde-Pumpido
Attorney General: Álvaro García Ortiz
Chief of the Defence Staff: Teodoro Esteban López Calderón
Sánchez II Government

Regional presidents

Events

January

4 January – The Supreme Court of Spain says that it will investigate two sons of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, president of Equatorial Guinea over the kidnapping and torture of two Spanish citizens who oppose Obiang's rule.
18 January – The People's Party President of Castile and León Alfonso Fernández Mañueco rejects anti-abortion proposals by coalition partner Vox.
25 January – Algeciras church attacks: One person is killed and four others are wounded when a man wielding a machete breaks into two churches in Algeciras, Andalusia, in attacks treated as Islamic terrorism by authorities. A Moroccan illegal immigrant is arrested.

March

9 March – Three people are killed after a mine tunnel collapses in Catalonia.
22 March – 2023 [vote of no confidence in the government of Pedro Sánchez]: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's government survives a second vote of no confidence presented by far-right party Vox, with independent Ramón Tamames as its candidate.

May

July

2 July – The Government of Gonzalo Capellán is sworn in in La Rioja.
23 July – 2023 Spanish general election

August

12 August – The Azcón government is sworn in.
15 August – 2023 Tenerife wildfire, the worst in the Canary Islands in 40 years.
20 August – 2023 [FIFA Women's World Cup]: football team|Spain] win 1–0 against England in the 2023 [FIFA Women's World Cup final|final] of the tournament.

September

8 September – Spain has become more reliant on Russian natural gas, according to government data. Russia's market share of total imports increased to 28 percent in July, surpassing Algeria as Spain's second largest gas supplier.

October

28 October – Prime Minister Sánchez announced during the 2023 Spanish government formation that he had agreed to back an amnesty law, to comprise all those involved in the controversial 2017 Catalan independence referendum and the subsequent constitutional crisis, while acknowledging that this was a u-turn on his previous stance to regard the amnesty as unlawful because it was necessary "in the interest of Spain and in defense of coexistence between Spaniards". after this the 2023 Spanish protests started.
30 October – FIFA bars former Royal Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales from all football-related activities for three years after having acted inappropriately during the 2023 FIFA [Women's World Cup final] in August.

November

9 November – Politician from Vox Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca is shot in the face in Madrid during an Assassination attempt.
16 November – 24th Annual Latin Grammy Awards

December

15 December – Fourteen workers at Tenerife South Airport were arrested on suspicion of stealing items from checked-in luggage. Police seized allegedly stolen items worth almost two million euros.

Deaths

January

3 January
* Elena Huelva, 20, influencer and writer.
* Nicolás Redondo, 95, union leader and politician, secretary general of the UGT and deputy.
* Sergi Schaaff, 85, television producer.
5 January
* Toni Batllori, 71–72, cartoonist.
* Mondeño, 88, torero.
10 January
* Jorge Ballesteros, 39, sports shooter.
* José Evangelista, 79, composer.
11 January – Eduardo Amorós, 79, Olympic equestrian.
17 January – Josep Rahola i d'Espona, 104, engineer and politician, senator.
20 January – Xavier Albó, 88, Jesuit priest, linguist and anthropologist.
23 January – Eugenio Martín, 97, film director and screenwriter.
24 January – Mònica Miquel Serdà, 60, politician, deputy.
25 January – José Javier Viñes Rueda, 85, politician, senator, Navarre MP.
26 January – Rodolfo Ares, 68, politician, member of the Basque Parliament.
27 January – Gerard Escoda, 50, footballer and sporting director.
30 January
*Fernando Elboj Broto, 76, teacher and politician, senator.
*Alexis Ravelo, 51, Spanish writer.

February

3 February
* Paco Rabanne, 88, fashion designer.
* Juan Velarde, 95, economist and academic.
9 February – Marcos Alonso, 63, football player and manager.
12 February – Ramón Palacios Rubio, 102, engineer and politician, senator.
13 February – José María Gil-Robles, 87, politician, president of the European Parliament.
17 February – Pansequito, 78, flamenco singer, brain cancer.
21 February
*Amancio, 83, football player and manager.
*Ricardo García García-Ochoa, 78, lawyer and politician, member of the Cortes of Castile and León.
27 February
*Eduardo Burguete, 61, Olympic pentathlete.
*Juan Muñoz Martín, 93, children's author.
28 February – Pelayo Novo, 32, footballer.

March

3 March – Francisco J. Ayala, 88, Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher.
7 March – Salvador García-Bodaño, 87, poet, member of the Royal Galician Academy.
10 March
*Juan Francisco García Sánchez, 86, judge, magistrate of the Supreme Court.
*Rafael de Mendizábal Allende, 95, judge, president of the National Court and magistrate of the Constitutional Court.
12 March – Jaume Medina, 73, philologist.
14 March – Ángel Floro Martínez, 83, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Gokwe.
15 March – Fèlix Millet, 87, businessman and convicted fraudster.
17 March – Laura Valenzuela, 92, television presenter and actress.
18 March – Pedro Solbes, 80, economist, twice minister of economy and finance, Executive [Vice President of the European Commission for An Economy that Works for People|European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs] and Second [Deputy Prime Minister of Spain|second deputy prime minister].
22 March – Teresa Sempere Jaén, 75, politician, deputy.
25 March – Lucinda Urrusti, 94, Spanish-Mexican artist.
30 March – Laura Gómez-Lacueva, 48, actress.
31 March – Antonio Martorell Lacave, 62, naval officer, chief of staff of the Navy.

April

2 April – Pedro Lavirgen, 92, tenor.
6 April
* Juanjo Ferreiro Suárez, 79, union leader and politician, member of the Parliament of Catalonia and City Council of Barcelona.
* Josep Piqué, 68, businessman and politician, minister of foreign affairs and twice of industry, chairman of Vueling.
10 April – Fernando Sánchez Dragó, 86, writer and journalist.
14 April – Juan Avilés Farré, 73, historian.
20 April – Josep Maria Fusté, 82, footballer.
27 April – Ramiro Oliveros, 82, actor.

May

2 May – Ruth Porta, 66, politician, senator.
3 May – Francisco Paesa, 87, spy, banker and businessman.
4 May – Rafael Guillén, 90, poet.
5 May – Jesús Mancha, 81, politician, senator, deputy.
14 May – Ferran Olivella, 86, footballer.
16 May – Iñaki Alkiza, 89, politician and footballer, mayor of San Sebastián.
19 May – Arturo Grávalos, 25, road racing cyclist.
21 May – Victoriano Sánchez Arminio, 80, football referee.
27 May – Màrius Díaz, 89, politician, mayor of Badalona and member of the Parliament of Catalonia.

June

6 June – Virginia Marí, 60, politician, mayor of Ibiza and member of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands
8 June – Domingo Perurena, 79, road racing cyclist.
11 June – Jesús Ruiz Fernández, politician, deputy
14 June
* Joaquín Espert, 84, politician, president of La Rioja.
* Jordi Porta i Ribalta, 86, Spanish Catalan cultural activist, president of Òmnium Cultural.
15 June – Antonio Jiménez Quiles, 88, road cyclist.
25 June – José Antonio Sistiaga, 91, filmmaker.
27 June – Carmen Sevilla, 92, actress, singer and dancer.

July

5 July – Andrés Oliva, 74, racing cyclist.
9 July – Luis Suárez, 88, football player and manager.
11 July – Mercedes Luzuriaga, 95, actress.
15 July – Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, 87, comic book artist.
20 July – Concha García Zaera, 93, digital artist.
25 July – Antonio Porpetta, 87, writer and poet.
27 July – Didier Lourenço, 55, painter.

August

2 August – Ramón Lobo, 68, journalist.
4 August – Carmen Xtravaganza, 62, Spanish-American model and singer, depicted in Paris is Burning.
5 August – Xavier Gabriel Lliset, 66, lottery businessman.
8 August – Federico Bahamontes, 95, road racing cyclist, Tour de France winner.
13 August – Constantino Méndez, 72, politician, secretary of state for defence and deputy.
16 August – Mariano Moreno García, 84, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Cafayate.
17 August – Guillermo Timoner, 97, racing cyclist, six-time UCI Motor-paced world champion.
23 August – José Luis Álvarez, 93, politician, mayor of Madrid, minister of transport and agriculture.
25 August –, 91, civil engineer and academic.

September

1 September
*Amando de Miguel, 86, sociologist.
*Carme Junyent, 68, Catalan linguist.
5 September – María Teresa Campos, 82, journalist and television presenter.
7 September – María Jiménez, 73, singer.
12 September – Roser Amadó, 79, architect.
14 September – Antoni Vila Casas, 92, pharmaceutical executive and philanthropist, founder of Fundació Vila Casas.
17 September – Pepe Domingo Castaño, 80, radio and television presenter, singer and writer.

October

16 October – Jesús Guzmán, 97, actor.

December

2 December – Concha Velasco, 84, actress.
8 December – Itziar Castro, 46, actress.