{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{more citations needed|date=March 2022}} {{Year in Spain|2011}} Events of '''2011 in''' '''Spain'''.
== Incumbents == * Monarch: Juan Carlos I<ref>{{cite web |title=Juan Carlos {{!}} Biography & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-Carlos |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=29 August 2023 |language=en}}</ref> * Prime Minister: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (until 21 December), Mariano Rajoy (starting 21 December)
===Regional presidents=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * Andalusia: José Antonio Griñán * Aragón: Marcelino Iglesias (until 13 July), Luisa Fernanda Rudi (starting 13 July) * Asturias: Vicente Álvarez Areces (until 15 July), Francisco Álvarez-Cascos (starting 15 July) * Balearic Islands: Francesc Antich (until 18 June), José Ramón Bauzá (starting 18 June) * Basque Country: Patxi López * Canary Islands: Paulino Rivero * Cantabria: Miguel Ángel Revilla (until 23 June), Ignacio Diego (starting 23 June) * Castilla–La Mancha: José María Barreda (until 22 June), María Dolores de Cospedal (starting 22 June) * Castile and León: Juan Vicente Herrera * Catalonia: Artur Mas * Extremadura: Guillermo Fernández Vara (until 4 July), José Antonio Monago (starting 4 July) * Galicia: Alberto Núñez Feijóo * La Rioja: Pedro Sanz * Community of Madrid: Esperanza Aguirre * Region of Murcia: Ramón Luis Valcárcel * Navarre: Miguel Sanz (until 1 June), Yolanda Barcina (starting 1 June) * Valencian Community: Francisco Camps (until 28 July), Alberto Fabra (starting 28 July) * Ceuta: Juan Jesús Vivas * Melilla: Juan José Imbroda {{div col end}}
== Events == {{Expand section|date=March 2013}} * * 1 May – an earthquake struck Lorca, Murcia. * 15 May – nationwide protests against the economic and political situation. * 22 May – Spanish local elections, 2011. * October, The ETA, a Basque militant separatist group, definitively ends armed activity.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Radcliff |first=Pamela Beth |title=Modern Spain, 1808 to the Present |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |year=2018}}</ref> * 20 November – general election, won by the People's Party whose leader is Mariano Rajoy.
== Births == * 11 February – Luna Fulgencio, actress
== Deaths == {{expand section|date=May 2011}} * 7 May – Seve Ballesteros, golfer (born 1957) * 23 May – Xavier Tondó, cyclist (born 1978)<ref>{{cite web |title=Xavi Tondo: Anti-doping cyclist who died just as his career was |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/xavi-tondo-antidoping-cyclist-who-died-just-as-his-career-was-starting-to-take-off-2289597.html |website=The Independent |access-date=8 March 2022 |language=en |date=26 May 2011}}</ref>
==See also== * 2011 in Spanish television * List of Spanish films of 2011 * 2011 in the European Union
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