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Timeline of the Spanish Civil War

Capture of Gijon

Franco appointed

Republican armies surrender

The rebellion starts

April 1, 1939

  • General Franco declares the war to be over.

Sep 21, 1936

  • Franco fue nombrado comandante supremo de las fuerzas nacionalistas

Oct 21, 1937

  • Capture of the city of Gijon by Nationalist forces.
  • All of the north coast is under Nationalist control.

July 17, 1936

  • Start of military rebellion against the Spanish government in North Africa, then mainland Spain.

1940

1930

Catalonia cut off

The bombing of Guernica

Spain divided

April 15 1938

  • Catalonia is cut off from the rest of Republican Spain, as Nationalist troops take the Mediterranean coastal town of Vinaroz.

April 26, 1937

  • Bombing of the Basque capital of Guernica by German airplanes. The attack was on civilians, rather than the military.
  • La ciudad fue destruida.

July 19, 1936

  • The military is defeated in Madrid and Barcelona.
  • The rebels take over Morocco, Galicia, Navarre, Old Castile and Seville.
  • The intended leader of the coup, General Sanjurjo, is killed in a plane crash.
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