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The judge from Palma de Mallorca José Castro, who investigates the Nóos case in which Iñaki Urdangarin is charged, charges the Infanta Cristina for the second time a supposed crime of tax and money laundering, after a first complaint was rejected by a higher court
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The Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, announces the abdication of the monarch and his succession by who will reign as Felipe VI
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Fifth surgery that the king undergoes in the last two years, in which he has operated on both hips and implanted prostheses to be able to walk
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A few days after being operated on for the hip fracture suffered in a fall while he was hunting in Bostuana, the King publicly apologized when leaving the hospital: "I am very sorry, I was wrong and it will not arise again "
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The Royal House removes from the official activities the Duke of Palma, Iñaki Urdangarin, for his "not exemplary" conduct, two years after being charged in a corruption case
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The King affirms in his Christmas speech that "justice is the same for everyone"
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The first-born of the Princes of Asturias, the Infanta Leonor, second in the royal succession is born in Madrid
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Attacks attributed to Islamic fundamentalists kill 191 people on four Cercanías trains in Madrid. A group of its author presidents immolate himself a few days later in a house on the outskirts of Madrid, causing the death of a police officer.
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Prince Felipe marries journalist Letizia Ortiz in Madrid
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Infanta Cristina, second daughter of the Kings, marries the athlete Iñaki Urdangarin in Barcelona
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First royal wedding: Infanta Elena, eldest daughter of the Kings, marries Jaime de Marichalar in Seville
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Year of celebration of the Barcelona Olympic Games, the Universal Exposition of Seville and the Ibero-American Summit in Madrid
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Prince Felipe, heir to the Crown, swears the Constitution before the Cortes Generales upon his 18th birthday
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The Kings preside over the act of signing the Treaty of Accession of Spain to the European Economic Community
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Spain enters NATO after a referendum
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Attempted coup d'état with the assault on the Cortes. During the morning, the King makes a speech on television dressed in military uniform in which he condemns the coup and calls for the order of the Armed Forces, which he believes led to its failure and tremendously promoted the loss of the monarch.
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The King sanctions in the Cortes the Constitution approved by the Spanish in a referendum on December 6
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The King's father, don Juan de Borbón, transfers the Headquarters of the Spanish Royal House to his son
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The first democratic legislature begins. The King is defined as a constitutional monarch
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Juan Carlos is proclaimed King by the Francoist Cortes two days after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, which means the reinstatement of the monarchy in Spain 44 years after the abdication of his grandfather, Alfonso XIII , which was followed by the Second Republic, then the Civil War and 36 years of dictatorship.