1939 in Spain

Events from the year 1939 in Spain.

Incumbents

January 3 - The news agency EFE, based in Madrid, is officially founded as a limited company.
January 5-February 4: Battle of Valsequillo
January 26 - Catalonia Offensive: Nationalist forces capture Barcelona.
February 7–9 - Battle of Menorca (1939)
February 10 - Nationalists close Spanish border with France.
February 16 - the high command of the Republican army tells Negrín that further military resistance was impossible.
February 27 - United Kingdom and France recognized Francisco Franco's Nationalist government.
March 4–7 - Cartagena Uprising.
March 7 - Nationalist transport ship SS Castillo de Olite sunk by Republican shore batteries while entering the port of Cartagena.
March 5: coup of Segismundo Casado.
March 5: National Defence Council formed
March 26-April 1: Final offensive of the Spanish Civil War