# 1900 in Spain

Events in the year 1900 in Spain.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Alfonso XIII, Maria Christina of Austria (Queen regent)
* Prime Minister: Francisco Silvela (until 22 October), Marcelo Azcárraga (from 23 October)

## Events

* 31 March — The Ministry of Education is created via a budget act as the Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts.
* May – Two spiritualist newspapers, La Luz del Porvenir and Unión Espiritista Kardecista de Cataluña merge to form the paper Luz y unión.
* 14 May to 28 October – Spain competes at the modern Olympic Games for the first time at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
* 27 June – Representatives of the Kingdom of Spain and the French Third Republic sign the Treaty of Paris negotiating their colonial borders in Africa.
* 29 June – The Plaza de las Arenas opens in Barcelona.
* 31 July – Biscay Foral Delegation Palace is inaugurated in Bilbao.
* 13 October – The anarchist trade union center, Federation of Workers' Societies of the Spanish Region (FSORE), is founded.
* 28 October – Sergeant Cesáreo García leads a failed insurrection in Badalona called the Carlist Sublevation.
* 7 November – The Treaty of Washington is signed, clarifying the Spanish Empire's cession of the Philippines as agreed by the 1898 Treaty of Paris.
* 11 November – The Catalan Football Federation is founded as the first football association in Spain.
Undated
* Construction of Casa Calvet is completed and Gaudí's design wins the Concurso anual de edificios artísticos [es] from the Barcelona government.
* The Banco Hispano Americano is formed.

## Births

* 1 January
** María Rosa Urraca Pastor, politician (died 1984)
** Xavier Cugat, musician (died 1990)
* 16 January – Juan López Sánchez, politician (died 1972)
* 21 January – Fernando Quiroga Palacios, Cardinal (died 1971)
* 24 February – Francisco Madrid, journalist and author (died 1952 in Argentina)
* 19 March
** Carmen Carbonell, actress (died 1988)
** Josep Dencàs, politician (died 1966 in Morocco)
* 20 March – María Moliner, librarian and lexicographer (died 1981)
* 31 March – Amadeo Marco Ilincheta, politician (died 1987)
* 4 April — María del Rosario de Silva, Duchess of Alba, socialite (died 1934)
* 20 April – José Lino Vaamonde, architect (died 1986 in Venezuela)
* 29 April – Concha de Albornoz, feminist (died 1972 in Mexico)
* 16 May – Ángel Valbuena Prat, historian (died 1977)
* 11 June – Carmen Polo, wife of Francisco Franco (died 1988)
* 14 June – Eugenio Imaz, philosopher and translator (died 1951 in Mexico)
* 12 July – Manuel Antonio, poet (died 1930)
* 6 August – Josep Tomàs i Piera, politician (died 1976 in Mexico)
* 27 August – Guillermo de Torre, author (died 1971 in Argentina)
* 10 September – Juan Chabás, author (died 1954 in Cuba)
* 15 September – Paquita Madriguera, musician (died 1965 in Uruguay)
* 20 October – Rodolfo Halffter, composer (died 1987 in Mexico)
* 4 November – Juan Dotras Vila, composer (died 1978)
* 7 November – José Crespo, actor (died 1997)
* 12 November – José Maldonado González, politician (died 1985)
* 15 November – Marciano José, Martyr of Turon and canonized saint (died 1934)
* 18 November – José María Valiente Soriano, politician (died 1982)
* 26 December – José Gaos, philosopher (died 1969 in Mexico)
* 27 December – Juan de Orduña, director and actor (died 1974)

## Deaths

* 4 January – Francisco Merry y Colom, diplomat (born 1829)
* 11 February – Jorge Loring, 1st Marquis of Casa Loring, businessman (born 1822)
* 23 March – Lorenzo Casanova, painter (born 1844)
* 23 September – Arsenio Martínez Campos, Prime Minister of Spain (born 1831)
* 24 November – Rafael Monleón, painter (born 1843)