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BBC News - What is Eta? When Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) first formed it was a student resistance movement against General Francisco Franco's military dictatorship. General Franco banned Basque language and culture, torturing and imprisioning intellectuals for their political and cultural beliefs.
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BBC News - What is Eta? ETA commits its first planned attack murdering Meliton Manzanas, the San Sebastian police chief.
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Timeline: ETA ETA assassinates Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, the prime minister and Franco's most likely successor. ETA members0 tunnelled under the road used by the admiral on his daily route from mass, mining it and blowing his car over a four-storey building.
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BBC News - What is Eta? This is said to be one of the bloodiest years that the ETA have caused. The series of attacks started with the Attack at Ispaster, followed by an attack at a bar in Markina, and the last attack was in a bar in Zarautz. One hundred and eighteen people were killed total.
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ETA Timeline The group Antiterrorist Liberation Groups (GAL) is set up to fight a dirty war against Eta. Its agents carry out assassinations of known Eta members (and several who were not), kidnappings, bombings and torture, killing 27 people during the 80s.
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ETA Timeline ETA abducts and kills Basque councillor Miguel Angel Blanco for demanding to have Basque prisioners moved closer to home. As a result of the murder six million Spaniards to join mass demonstrations against ETA.
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List of ETA Attacks The attempt to kill José María Aznar, the leader of Spain's right-wing opposition and future Prime Minister, was nearly successful. He was saved by his car's armor plating when a car bomb loaded with 40 kg of explosives went of. In the action of the car explosion an innocent bystander was killed.
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ETA Timeline ETA announces that they have descided on an indefinite ceasefire in hopes to talk to Spain about an agreement, or compromise, with the independent territory situation.
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Timeline: ETA Campaign ETA continuously attacked Spain with car bombs and other fatal attacks. These attacks lasted for the entire year of 2000. The attacks had such an impact on citizens of Spain it caused a return to the violent separatist campaign.
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List of ETA Attacks ETA declares a "permanent ceasefire" that would start on March 24, 2006.
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ETA Timeline Spanish Prime Minister Rodriguez Zapatero announces he and his government will begin peace talks with ETA within three months.
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List of ETA Attacks ETA announces that the ceasefire is over because Spain had failed to have efficient talks with the ETA members.
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ETA Timeline 17 October 2011: International negotiators including former ex-UN chief Kofi Annan, former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and Irish nationalist Gerry Adams persuade ETA to declare a definitive closure to its 40-year campaign of violence and attacks. They ask Spain and France to discuss a declaration and agree to talks, and propose a reconciliation process.
