Catalan republic

The Catalan République was proclaimed on at least four occasions: at the 17th century, by Pau Claris, at the 19th century by Estanislau Figueras and at the 20th century by Francesc Macià, in 1931, then by Lluís Companys, in 1934.

Proclamation of Pau Claris

The January 17th 1641, the army of Philippe IV of Spain penetrates in Catalogne to subdue a revolt, Pau Claris proclaims on January 23rd Louis XIII of France count de Barcelone (the title having been transmitted to its heir Louis XIV until 1652) and places the Principauté of Catalonia under French sovereignty.

January 26th, 1641, at the conclusion of the Battle of Montjuic, the army of Philippe IV is overcome east must be withdrawn. Pau Claris dies one month later. Finally, the dismissal of the count d' Olivares, the devastations caused by the famine and the plague, as well as the engagement taken by Philippe IV to respect the Catalan institutions, reflect fine upon the war in 1652.

With the treated of Westphalia, in 1648, Spain most of its possessions in Central Europe loses, and the conflict with France remains, in particular about the Catalan territories located at the north of the Pyrenees. In 1659, to the Traité of the Pyrenees, Philippe IV yields to France the territories concerned with the county of Roussillon and the northern part of Cerdagne, which goes against the delimitations fixed by the Catalan Constitutions.

The pact of Tortosa

The May 18th 1869, the representatives of the federal republican committees of Aragon, Catalonge, Valence and the Balearic Islands sign the federal Pacte of Tortosa to restore the catalano-Aragonese Confederation within the framework of the Spanish republican State.

In February 1873, Estanislau Figueras is elected president of the First Republic, and occupies this load right at the end of June; to this date, indeed, the economic crisis, divisions of its own party and the proclamation of the Catalan State, on which it cannot return without dissolving the troops present in Catalonia, lead it to resign with the profit of Francisco pi I Margall. Figueras leaves then to France, from where it tries without success to return to the end of the year to reconstitute the federal Party.

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