title: 1640 in Catalonia
text: # 1640 in Catalonia
  
  Events from 1640 in Catalonia.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Count of Barcelona – Philip III
  * President of the Generalitat of Catalonia – Pau Claris
  
  ## Events
  
  * 28 January – The Spanish armies recovered the castle of Salses from French occupation.
  * February–May – The Spanish soldiers remained in Catalonia, and the tensions between troops and Catalan peasants, who were forced to quarter them, increased.
  * 3 May – Riudarenes, a village near to Girona, was burn by Spanish soldiers.
  * 14 May – Santa Coloma de Farners was burnt by Spanish soldiers.
  * 22 May – Rebels liberated the deputy of the Generalitat Francesc de Tamarit from prison.
  * 7 June – Corpus de Sang. The reapers stationed in Barcelona and Sant Andreu del Palomar started a riot in which the Viceroy of Catalonia, Dalmau de Queralt, Count of Santa Coloma was killed.
  * 7 September – Pact of Ceret between the Generalitat and the Kingdom of France, establishing a Franco-Catalan alliance.
  * 10 September – Pau Claris, President of the Generalitat, called the politician members of the Principality in order to form a Junta de Braços or Braços Generals (States-General), a consultive body.
  