<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" id="mwsA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a>: Two days after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalist_faction_(Spanish_Civil_War)" id="mwsQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)">Nationalist army</a> occupied the Catalan city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lleida" id="mwsg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lleida">Lleida</a>, dictator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco" id="mwsw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Francisco Franco">Francisco Franco</a> decrees the abolition of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalitat_de_Catalunya" id="mwtA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Generalitat de Catalunya">Generalitat</a> (the autonomous government of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia" id="mwtQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Catalonia">Catalonia</a>), the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Region_of_Catalonia_(1931–1939)" id="mwtg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Autonomous Region of Catalonia (1931–1939)">self-government granted by the Republic</a>, and the official status of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language" id="mwtw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Catalan language">Catalan language</a>.<sup about="#mwt95" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_5#cite_note-16" id="mwuA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwuQ">[16]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"><cite about="#mwt92" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFEsculies2018">Esculies, Joan (5 April 2018). <a class="external text" href="https://elpais.com/cat/2018/04/05/cultura/1522908912_815846.html" id="mwDZ0" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"<span class="cs1-kern-left" id="mwDZ4"></span>"¡El Estatuto de Cataluña ha muerto!"<span class="cs1-kern-right" id="mwDZ8"></span>"</a>. <i id="mwDaA">El País</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwDaE">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwDaI">3 April</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt92" class="Z3988" id="mwDaM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=El+Pa%C3%ADs&amp;rft.atitle=%22%C2%A1El+Estatuto+de+Catalu%C3%B1a+ha+muerto%21%22&amp;rft.date=2018-04-05&amp;rft.aulast=Esculies&amp;rft.aufirst=Joan&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Felpais.com%2Fcat%2F2018%2F04%2F05%2Fcultura%2F1522908912_815846.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+5"></span></span>