‘Golden Girls’ reborn in Spain
Classic sitcom “The Golden Girls” is getting a Spanish makeover with some of Spain´s most acclaimed veteran thesps poised to play the female leads. Disney Media Networks has teamed up with leading Spanish producer Jose Luis Moreno and Luis Balaguer´s Miami-based production, talent management and marketing company Latin World Entertainment More...
Mother bleeds to death after tripping over handbag and landing on glass
A mother bled to death when she fell over her handbag on to a glass in a Spanish bar, a coroner heard. Expatriate Sally Feeley was enjoying a late-night hot chocolate with friends when she tripped over her handbag More...
Dos de Mayo Uprising
On the second of May (Spanish: Dos de Mayo), 1808, the people of Madrid rebelled against the occupation of the city by French troops, provoking a brutal repression by the French Imperial forces and triggering the More...
Madrid’s ‘Broadway’ marks 100 years
The city of Madrid Monday celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Gran Via, its emblematic thoroughfare known as the Spanish capital´s “Broadway” and where Ernest Hemingway lived during the civil war. Spain´s More...
Terrorists bomb trains in Madrid – 11th March 2004
On this day in 2004, 191 people are killed and nearly 2,000 are injured when 10 bombs explode on four trains in three Madrid-area train stations during a busy morning rush hour. The bombs were later found to have More...
Christopher Columbus Returns
Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere. On this day,10th March in 1496, he set sail from Hispaniola, heading to Spain. He was carrying 225 Europeans and a large number of natives More...
Spanish siege of Pensacola begins – 9 March 1781
After successfully capturing British positions in Louisiana and Mississippi, Spanish General Bernardo de Galvez, commander of the Spanish forces in North America, turns his attention to the British-occupied city More...
France declares war on Spain – 7 March 1793
On the 7th March, 1793, France declared war on Spain after Spanish forces invaded the French-occupied territories of Roussillon and Navarre on the border between the two countries. Part of the French Revolutionary More...
This Day in History 1819: The U.S. acquires Spanish Florida
Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams sign the Florida Purchase Treaty, in which Spain agrees to cede the remainder of its old province of Florida to the United States. Spanish More...
Spain to recognise poet civil war Miguel Hernandez
The Spanish government says it will formally recognise one of the country´s best-known poets as a victim of the dictatorship of Gen Francisco Franco. It will present the family of the poet, Miguel Hernandez, with More...
