1936 in Spain
Events in the year 1936 in Spain.
Incumbents
- President: Manuel Azaña
- Prime Minister: Santiago Casares Quiroga until July 19, Francisco Largo Caballero
Events
- July 17–18 – July 1936 military uprising in Melilla
- July 18–25 – July 1936 military uprising in Seville
- July 18–20 – Siege of Cuartel de la Montaña
- July 19 – July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona
- July 19–27 – Siege of Cuartel de Loyola
- July 19-August 16 – Siege of Gijón
- July 19-October 16 – Siege of Oviedo
- July 20-23 – July 1936 [coup d'état in Granada]
- July 21-September 27 – Siege of the Alcázar
- August 14 – Battle of Badajoz (1936)
- August 19-September 5 – Battle of Irún
- September 3 – Battle of [Talavera de la Reina (1936)]
Births
- 7 March – Antonio Mercero, film director and screenwriter
- 15 March – Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, cartoonist and writer
- 4 May – El Cordobés, matador
- 18 May – Francisco Laína, politician
- 3 July – Jerónimo Saavedra, president of the Canary Islands
- 30 July – Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, royal
- 31 August – Fernando Abril Martorell, politician
Deaths
- July 12 – José Castillo (Spanish Civil War), police officer
- July 13 – José Calvo Sotelo, jurist and politician
- July 20 – José Sanjurjo, military officer and Francisco Ascaso, political activist
- July 30 - Joaquín Abati, writer
- August 4 – Antonio Azarola y Gresillón, naval officer
- August 5
- * José Manuel Puelles de los Santos, physician
- * Marcelino Valentín Gamazo, lawyer
- August 8 – Ceferino Giménez Malla, Roman Catholic activist
- August 11 – Blas Infante, politician and writer
- August 12
- * Blessed Victoria Díez Bustos de Molina, teacher and religious woman
- * Manuel Goded Llopis, general
- August 17 – José María of Manila, Catholic priest and Alexandre Bóveda, politician
- August 19 – Federico García Lorca, poet and playwright
- August 22 – Melquíades Álvarez (politician)
- August 23 – Julio Ruiz de Alda Miqueleiz, aviator and José María Albiñana, physician and politician
- August 31 – Joaquín Milans del Bosch, military officer
- September 5 – Federico Borrell García, militiaman
- September 29 – Alfonso Beorlegui Canet, army officer
- October 2 – Bartolomé Blanco, Catholic activist
- October 29 – Ramiro de Maeztu, writer and diplomat and Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, philosopher and politician
- November 20 – Buenaventura Durruti, revolutionary and José Antonio Primo de Rivera, politician
- November 28 – Pedro Muñoz Seca, playwright