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<div style="text-align:center"><div style="color:#DF7401"> '''The transition (1975-1981)'''</div>
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|style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''November 1975'''|| style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | Don Juan Carlos is proclaimed King of Spain
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|style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''February 1976'''|| style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | Spain leaves the Sahara, according to agreements signed three months before, under Moroccan pressure with an agonising Franco. Its future becomes dependant on a UN-controlled referendum
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|style="color:#000000; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''July 1976'''|| style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | [https://www.congreso.es/busqueda-de-diputados?p_p_id=diputadomodule&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_diputadomodule_mostrarFicha=true&codParlamentario=341&idLegislatura=I&mostrarAgenda=false Adolfo Suárez] '''is appointed Prime Minister'''
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|style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''December 1976'''|| style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | Referendum for the Political Reform Act
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|style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''January 1977'''|| style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | The Atocha massacre: four labour lawyers from the Communist Party were murdered
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|style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''April 1977'''|| style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | Legalisation of the Communist Party
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|style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''June 1977'''|| style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | First General Elections after the Civil War, Adolfo Suárez is elected Prime Minister, position he would hold until 1981
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|style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''October 1977'''|| style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | [https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/las-mananas-de-rne-con-inigo-alfonso/asi-sonaron-pactos-moncloa-1977/5554437/ ''Pactos de la Moncloa''] Moncloa Pacts
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|style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''6 December 1978'''|| style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | Referendum on the Spanish Constitution
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|style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''March 1979'''|| style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | General elections. First Constitutional legislature
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|style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''April 1979'''|| style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | First municipal elections after the Civil War
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|style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''September 1979''' || style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | Extraordinary Federal Congress of the PSOE through which it renounces Marxism
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|style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''May 1979'''|| style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | Attack from the GRAPO terrorist group in Madrid: nine killed and 40 injured
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|style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''December 1979'''|| style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | Approval of the Statutes of Autonomy of Catalonia and the Basque Country
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|style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''January 1981'''|| style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | Adolfo Suárez resigns as Prime Minister
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|style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:100px" | '''February 1981'''|| style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px" | Coup d’Etat attempt. The Lieutenant-Colonel Tejero occupies the Congress of Deputies
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Once the dictator had died, the process known as “transition” began, which paved the way to a Western parliamentary democracy in Spain. The rulers he had appointed, trusting that the Francoist militarism would be perpetuated, understood that it was a senseless anachronism and the anti-Francoist rulers (from the exile or in captivity) coincided in the need to lead the country towards its identification with Europe; it was necessary to assume waivers from [https://static.eldiario.es/clip/9a5ac512-4520-49de-a868-f1d945303adc_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg both sides].<br>
