The Electric Years.
Political Catalanism
 The Working Class Movement and Social Conflict
The Mancomunitat

The Mancomunitat de Catalunya was officially constituted on 6 April 1914 in the Saló de Sant Jordi in the Palau de la Generalitat, as a result of the application of the Ley de Mancomunidades Provinciales (Provincial Federations Law), approved by the Spanish Cortes in December 1913. The Mancomunitat was a federation of the four provincial Catalan councils and, although it was a strictly administrative institution, it was a recognition by the Spanish state of the character and unity of Catalonia. It was the first self-governing body since 1714. With it, the Catalan language returned to an official sphere of influence. Enric Prat de la Riba became the Mancomunitat’s first president.

The Work of the Mancomunitat de Catalunya
The Institute of Catalan Studies
Public Education and Vocational Training
Modernisation of the Countryside
Noucentisme

1907. The Institut d’Estudis Catalans is set up by the Diputació de Barcelona under the presidency of Enric Prat de la Riba.
1914. Constitution of the Mancomunitat de Catalunya.
1917. The Lliga Regionalista leads the Assemblea de Parlamentaris (Parliamentarians’ Assembly).
Josep Puig i Cadafalch becomes president of the Mancomunitat following the death of Prat de la Riba.
The Lliga Regionalista enters national government for the first time.
1918-1919. Campaign for Catalan autonomy.
1923. The Captain-General of Catalonia, Miguel Primo de Rivera, establishes the military dictatorship.
1924. General Losada is named as interim president of the Mancomunitat, later to be substituted by Alfons Sala, Count of Egara.
1925. The dictatorship dissolves the Mancomunitat.


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