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| 1972, May–Oct |
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| A revised law of public order restricted freedom of thought and association. University officials and staff members in Madrid, Salamanca, and Valencia quit in protest of the new government rules. | 1 |
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| 1973 |
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| Franco resigned his premiership but remained head of state. Carlos Arias Navarro was made prime minister. Although in 1973–74 his government began reforms to reduce press censorship, allow some limited political associations, reform the Cortes (parliament), make local government more democratic, and revise labor laws, a new law issued in December 1974 put political association under state control again. | 2 |
| The assassination of Premier Carrero Blanco by ETA contributed to the retrenchment of the Spanish state in its commitment to authoritarianism and provided new momentum for the organization of real and widespread opposition to Franco's rule. | 3 |
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| 1975, Nov. 20 |
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| DEATH OF GEN. FRANCISCO FRANCO. JUAN CARLOS I WAS CROWNED AS KING on Nov. 22. | 4 |
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| Nov. 25 |
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| King Juan Carlos issued a decree pardoning certain political prisoners, as a gesture of goodwill to mark the beginning of his reign. The pardon fell short of leftist demands for a more sweeping pardon of prisoners of the Franco regime. | 5 |
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| Dec. 5 |
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| King Juan Carlos requested that the sitting prime minister, Carlos Arias Navarro, form a new government. | 6 |
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