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| 1933, Jan. 8 |
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| Great radical rising (anarchists and syndicalists) in Barcelona, which spread to many other large cities. It was successfully suppressed by government troops, but indicated the impatience of the lower classes with the social reform movement. | 1 |
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| Jan. 12 |
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| Government forces suppressed a revolt in the village of Casas Viejas. It severely tarnished the prestige of the government and indicated that the peasantry too was unhappy with the pace of agricultural reform. | 2 |
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| April 23 |
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| Municipal elections reflected a distinct veering of opinion to the Right. | 3 |
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| May 17 |
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| An Associations Law required that heads of all religious orders be Spaniards; members of religious orders were forbidden to engage in industry or trade; church schools were abolished and all secular education by religious orders prohibited; church property was nationalized, though left in the custody of the clergy. Vigorous protests of the pope (encyclical Delectissimi nobis). | 4 |
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| Sept. 8 |
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| Elections for the Tribunal of Constitutional Guaranties (a body to test the constitutionality of legislation and protect civil liberties) showed a further trend toward the Right. | 5 |
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| Oct. 29 |
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| José Antonio Primo de Rivera launched the program of his Fascist organization, the Falange. | 6 |
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| Nov. 19 |
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| The first regular elections for the cortes gave the Right parties 44 percent of the seats, the Left parties only 21 percent. There followed a series of coalition ministries, all of them more or less helpless and unpopular. | 7 |
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| Dec. 9 |
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| Syndicalist-anarchist rising in Barcelona, put down only after ten days of fighting. | 8 |
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