Chronological table 1950-1990. Bartomeu Bennasar
1950 The UN lifts the condemnation of the Spanish government (of 1946).
North Korea invades South Korea.
1953 Military and economic pacts between Spain and the United States of America (USA) .
Signing of the concordat with the Vatican.
1955 Spain joins the UN.
Transfer of Bishop Joan Hewàs to Ciudad Real.
Monsignor Jesús Enciso Viana, bishop of Mallorca.
1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, under the name of John XXIII, is elected Pope; succeeds Pius XII (Eugeni Pacelli).
1959 The Treaty of Rome enters into force.
John XXIII announces the holding of an ecumenical council.
Economic stabilization plan and Public order law in Spain.
Khrushchev visits the U.S.
Charles de Gaulle is elected president of France.
Fidel Castro's revolution triumphs in Cuba.
The Vatican (the Holy Office) suspends the experience of worker priests.
1960 Some groups of clerics whoBe there Spanish regime.
J. F. Kennedy wins the election in the U.S. of America.
The birth control pill is marketed.
The missionary presence in Peru begins.
1961 The Berlin Wall, the "wall of shame" is being built
of steel and concrete.
Joan XXIII publishes Mater et Magistra.
Strikes in Spain and anti-Spanish demonstrations in Europe.
1962 The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council begins.
John XXIII publishes the encyclical Pacem in terris.
The Munich "conspiracy", where institutions are called for
democratic for Spain.
First Assembly of ETA.
Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963 Montini is elected pope with the name of Paul VI.
The conciliar sessions follow.
CCOO (Comisiones Obreras) and the TOP (Tribunal
of public order) and the regime shoots Julian Grimau.
Kennedy assassination.
Death of Bishop J. Enciso.
1964 First Encyclical of Peace VI Ecclesiawt Suaïrt on dialogue.
Paul VI officially visits and meets with the patriarch
Athenagoras.
Bresnev becomes the general secretary of the Party
Russian communist.
"XXV Years of Peace" begins with Franco. Customs Press Act
Fraga Irirbarne: freedom within an order... and prior consultation.
Escarrer, abbot of Montserrat: "Where there is no freedom, there is no justice. It is not twenty-five years of peace but of victory." Grow the opposition.
Rafael Alvarez Lara is the new bishop of Mallorca.
1965 The official closing of the Second Vatican Council, after several working sessions, begins the path of transcendental reforms for the Catholic Church.
Pedro Arrupe is elected general of the Jesuits.
1966 Mao Tse-tung consolidates power with the "Cultural Revolution".
Serious clashes in different parts of Spain. Three hundred Catalan chaplains demonstrate against the regime.
Tourism invades Spain. It is the tourist boom. Growing migration.
Crisis and impudence of Catholic Action.
1967 Encyclical Populurum Pïogressio de Paz VI on the development of peoples.
Assassination of Che, Ernesto Guevara.
Protest against the Vietnam War is growing.
Student strikes.
1968 Prague Spring ("Socialism with a Human Face"), with A.
Dubcek, and subsequent Soviet invasion.
Student and worker revolt in May in Paris and around the world
France demanding to revolutionize the system.
Martin Luther King assassination.
Paul VI publishes Hu7rtaïLae Yáfae on the use of contraceptives.
ETA begins to kill.
1969 Nineteen millionth tourist arrives at Palma airport.
Serious clashes in Ireland between Catholics and Protestants.
E. Tarancón, primate of Spain.
Beginning of Christian groups in the hospitality industry in Mallorca.
Olof Palme, new Swedish leader.
Spain: the continuous state of emergency. Problems in the Country Basque and everywhere.
Franco appoints Prince Juan Charles of Bourbon and Bourbon as successor with the title of king
Armstrong to the moon.
1970 Charles de Gaulle dies in France.
Expulsion of R. Garaudy from the French Communist Party.
Oliveira de Salazar dies in Portugal.
Success of Willy Brandt's "Ostpolitik".
Salvador Allende, President of Chile.
Bruno Kreisky, new Chancellor of Austria.
Earthquake in Peru.
The Burgos trial against Basque militants begins.
Impact of "Liberation Theology" and Struggles
Latin American popular.
1971 The joint assembly of bishops and chaplains is held.
Tightening of the press control policy.
Group of chaplains of Son Rapinya (until 1972).
1972 Breakdown between Nixon and Mao and Bresnev.
Olympic Games of "terror" in Munich.
Christian hospitality groups' first contacts with OCBR
(Communist organization Red Flag: Splinter organization
of the Communist Party, in 1964).
Creation of CETENI (Centre for Theological Studies of Mallorca)
affiliated to the FTC (Faculty of Theology of Catalonia). Before
EESC (Centre for Higher Ecclesiastical Studies).
School of Social Training "Mar, 6".
Msgr. Alvarez Lara resigns.
Group of chaplains of Son Rapinya.
Monsignor Teodoro Ubeda Gramage, Apostolic Administrator
of Mallorca; Bishop of Mallorca on 13 April 1973 (t 2003).
1973 Pinochet's military coup d'état in Chile and the death of S. Allende.
The Europe of the "Nine" is born.
The U.S. is defeated in Vietnam.
Group of "chaplains of the first Tuesday" (until 1981).
Global energy crisis.
ETA attack against Carrero Blanco, President of the Government
Spanish.
The 1001 process against CCOO leaders begins.
In Mallorca, BR merger with the PC and first strike in a hotel
in Palma,
Foundation of "Democratic Table" and "Democratic Junta".
1974 G. Pompidou, successor to Charles de Gaulle, dies.
Ceausescu, President of the Republic of Romania.
Carnation Revolution in Portugal.
Solzenicyn expelled from the USSR.
Homily described as "ethnic" by the bishop of Bilbao: Monsignor
Añoveros.
Execution of the death penalty of Puig Antich and Heinz Chez.
Prince Juan Carlos provisionally assumes the 'leadership'
of the State for Franco's hospitalization.
1975 Death penalty for five political activists in Spain.
The "green march" of Hassan II of Morocco takes over the Sahara
Franco dies.
The war in Vietnam ends.
Juan Carlos I, king. Clarifying homily of the cardinal
Tarancón.
Trade union elections and creation of unitary candidacies of
workers (CUT) .
The Christian hospitality group breaks with the PC.
1976 Kissinger signs new U.S.-Mexico cooperation treaty Spain.
Referendum on the law for political reform.
Adolfo Suárez replaces Carlos Arias Navarro at the helm of the
Spanish government.
Death of Mao.
Soares' triumph in Portugal.
"Freedom, amnesty, statute of autonomy".
First free municipal elections after forty years.
UGT Congress.
Urban Pastoral Week in Palma.
The facts of the closure, by the commission of unemployed, in the church of San Miguel.
Congress of Catalan Culture.
The king communicates to the pope the intention not to use the privilege
Presentation of bishops.
1977 Brezhnev, Kremlin strongman.
Murders in Atocha.
Controversial legalisation of the Spanish Communist Party. The PSuc has been legalized.
First democratic general elections, after the civil war, with the triumph of UCD.
Tarradelles, president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, returns
of exile.
October 29, Holiday for Autonomy
The "Moncloa Pacts" have been reinforced to overcome the crisis.
1978 Paul VI dies, succeeded by John Paul I and this John Paul
(Karol Wojtyla) .
New Spanish Constitution. The Catholic Church disgruntled
with non-confessionality.
Pre-autonomies are being approved. General Inter-Island Council.
Louise Brown, first test-tube baby.
Aldo Moro killed in Italy.
The death penalty abolished in Spain.
1979 Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Khomeini wins in the Shah of Persia.
UCD's electoral triumph in Spain. Suárez was in charge of forming a government.
The Spanish bishops warn about voting for parties that defend divorce, abortion and the single education.
The USSR invades Afghanistan.
Nicaragua with the FSLN (Sandinista Liberation Front)
National).
In Palma the Mayor's Office passes into the hands of the PSOE
Second Diocesan Assembly (others follow).
Creation of the Diocesan Delegation for Social Action.
1980 Tito dies in Yugoslavia.
Death of Monsignor Oscar Romero, bishop of El Salvador.
Foundation of the trade union "Solidarity" in Poland.
Reagan defeats Carter.
Creation of the Secretariat of Justice and Peace in Mallorca.
1981 Attack on John Paul II.
The Congress of Deputies was assaulted, on 23F.
Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo at the head of the Spanish government.
Divorce Law.
Spain joins NATO
Mitterrand assumes the French presidency.
1982 Beginning of the socialist government of Felipe González.
Personal Prelature of Opus.
John Paul II visits Spain.
1983 Decriminalization of abortion.
The Statute of Autonomy begins to come into force. Community
Autonomous University of the Balearic Islands (G41B). First legislature autonomous.
1985 Signing of the Treaty of Accession of Spain to the EEC (Community European Economic Society).
1986 Nuclear disaster in Cihernobyl.
"Yes" in NATO.
New electoral victory for the PSOE.
Electoral victory for J. Chirac.
1987 Regional elections. Second legislature.
1988 Excommunication of fundamentalist Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
The Anglican Church in favor of the female priesthood.
Gorbachev elected head of state of the USSR.
General strike paralyzes the country.
1989 Solidarity wins the elections in Poland.
The "Berlin Wall" falls.
Ceausescu is shot in Romania.
E. Havel, President of Czechoslovakia.
Murders of Ellacuría and five other Jesuits in El Salvador.
Serious flooding in the east of Mallorca.
1990 The so-called Gulf War.
Chronological Table (from 1950 to 1990) presented by Bartomeu Bennasar in his book: "Church and society in Mallorca. From dictatorship to democracy (1974-1979)". Lleonard Muntaner Publishing House. Palma, 2004
