title: 1640 in Spain
text: # 1640 in Spain
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch - Philip IV
  
  ## Events
  
  * May - beginning of the Catalan Revolt
  * September - Royal army occupies Tortosa
  * December 8 - a large Royal army under Pedro Fajardo de Zúñiga y Requesens headed for Barcelona, passing through Cambrils.
  * December 13–16 - Catalan Revolt: Battle of Cambrils. Catalan rebels massacred by Royal army after surrender
  * December 24 - Royal army takes Tarragona
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * June 7 - Dalmau de Queralt, Count of Santa Coloma, Viceroy of Catalonia, assassinated
  * December 16 - Antoni d'Armengol, Jacint Vilosa, Carles Bertrolà i de Caldés, Catalan Revolt leaders at Cambrils, execution by garrote
  