1640 in Spain

Incumbents

• Monarch - Philip IV

  Events

• May - beginning of the Catalan Revolt
• September - Royal army occupies Tortosa
• December 8 - a large Royal army under Pedro Fajardo de Zúñiga y Requesens headed for Barcelona, passing through Cambrils.
• December 13–16 - Catalan Revolt: Battle of Cambrils. Catalan rebels massacred by Royal army after surrender
• December 24 - Royal army takes Tarragona

  Deaths

• June 7 - Dalmau de Queralt, Count of Santa Coloma, Viceroy of Catalonia, assassinated
• December 16 - Antoni d'Armengol, Jacint Vilosa, Carles Bertrolà i de Caldés, Catalan Revolt leaders at Cambrils, execution by garrote