Events of 6 October

Events of 6 October
Part of the Revolution of 1934
Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya
Date 5-10 October 1934 Location Catalonia Result Spanish government victory
Belligerents
Generalitat of Catalonia (self-proclaimed Catalan State) Escamots Worker's Alliance	Spanish Republic Spanish Army
Commanders and leaders
Lluís Companys Josep Dencàs	Alejandro Lerroux Domènec Batet
Casualties and losses
74 dead, 252 wounded[1]

The events of 6 October (Catalan: Fets del sis d'octubre) were a general strike, armed insurgency and declaration of a Catalan State in Catalonia during the Revolution of 1934 on 6 October 1934.

The predominantly left-wing Generalitat of Catalonia led by President Lluís Companys declared the Catalan State in reaction to the inclusion of the right-wing CEDA party in the Spanish Republican government of Alejandro Lerroux. Companys declared a Catalan State within a "Spanish Federal Republic" in Barcelona with support from a general strike called by the General Union of Workers. General Domènec Batet declared martial law and the Spanish Army attacked the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya and other government buildings in Barcelona, causing Companys to surrender on the morning of 7 October. Catalonia's Statute of Autonomy was suspended while Companys and his government were imprisoned until the left-wing Popular Front government came to power in 1936.