Christmas Eve National Speech, the Glossary
The King's Christmas Speech, formally known as His Majesty The King's Christmas Message (Mensaje de Navidad de S.M. el Rey) is a broadcast by the reigning King of Spain to Spanish people every Christmas Eve since 1975.[1]
Table of Contents
22 relations: Abdication of Juan Carlos I, Adolfo Suárez, Christmas Eve, Comic strip, COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, El Jueves, ETA (separatist group), Felipe VI, Flag of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Juan Carlos I, List of television stations in Spain, Mariano Rajoy, Mensaje a la nación, Monarchy of Spain, National Day of Spain, Prime Minister of Spain, Queen Sofía of Spain, Spaniards, 1981 Spanish coup attempt, 2004 Madrid train bombings, 2017 Catalan independence referendum.
- Christmas in Spain
- Speeches by heads of state
Abdication of Juan Carlos I
Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, announced his pending abdication from the throne on 2 June 2014.
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Adolfo Suárez
Adolfo Suárez González, 1st Duke of Suárez (25 September 1932 – 23 March 2014) was a Spanish lawyer and politician.
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Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus.
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Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.
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COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
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El Jueves
El Jueves (Spanish for "Thursday") is a Spanish weekly satirical magazine based in Barcelona.
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ETA (separatist group)
ETA, an acronym for ("Basque Homeland and Liberty", Encyclopaedia Britannica 20 October 2011 or "Basque Country and Freedom"), was an armed Basque nationalist and far-left separatist organization in the Basque Country between 1959 and 2018, with its goal being independence for the region.
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Felipe VI
Felipe VI (Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia; born 30 January 1968) is King of Spain.
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Flag of Spain
The national flag of Spain (Bandera de España), as it is defined in the Constitution of 1978, consists of three horizontal stripes: red, yellow and red, the yellow stripe being twice the height of each red stripe.
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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (born 4 August 1960) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).
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Juan Carlos I
Juan Carlos I (Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 November 1975 until his abdication on 19 June 2014.
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List of television stations in Spain
This is a list of television stations in Spain.
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Mariano Rajoy
Mariano Rajoy Brey (born 27 March 1955) is a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018, when a vote of no confidence ousted his government.
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Mensaje a la nación
The Message to the Nation (Mensaje a la nación) is a political tradition in Hispanic American countries that consists of a speech delivered by the head of state before a representation of the Nation in which the government is rendered accountable at the beginning of the new ordinary legislative period or extraordinary measures are announced. Christmas Eve National Speech and Mensaje a la nación are Speeches by heads of state.
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Monarchy of Spain
The monarchy of Spain or Spanish monarchy (Monarquía Española) is the constitutional form of government of Spain.
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National Day of Spain
The National Day of Spain (help) is a national holiday held annually on 12 October.
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Prime Minister of Spain
The prime minister of Spain, officially president of the Government (Presidente del Gobierno), is the head of government of Spain.
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Queen Sofía of Spain
Sofía (born Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark, Σοφία; 2 November 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who was Queen of Spain from 1975 to 2014 as the wife of King Juan Carlos I. She is the first child of King Paul of Greece and Frederica of Hanover.
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Spaniards
Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.
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1981 Spanish coup attempt
A coup d'état was attempted in Spain in February 1981 by elements of the Civil Guard and the Spanish military.
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2004 Madrid train bombings
The 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known in Spain as 11M) were a series of coordinated, nearly simultaneous bombings against the Cercanías commuter train system of Madrid, Spain, on the morning of 11 March 2004—three days before Spain's general elections.
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2017 Catalan independence referendum
An independence referendum was held on 1 October 2017 in the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia, passed by the Parliament of Catalonia as the Law on the Referendum on Self-determination of Catalonia and called by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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See also
Christmas in Spain
- Caganer
- Cavalcade of Magi
- Christmas Eve National Speech
- Christmas in the Basque Country
- Fia-Faia
- King cake
- Marzipan
- Olentzero
- Polvorón
- Spanish Christmas Lottery
- Tió de Nadal
- Turrón
Speeches by heads of state
- 1974 Speech of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the United Nations
- 2006 Chávez speech at the United Nations
- Ahiara Declaration
- Atatürk's Address To Turkish Youth
- Ceaușescu's speech of 21 August 1968
- Christmas Eve National Speech
- Courtyard Speech
- Golden Speech
- Government policy statement
- Governor-General's Address to Dáil Éireann
- Hirohito surrender broadcast
- Hun speech
- Indonesia Accuses
- Jozef Tiso's speech in Holíč
- July Theses
- List of addresses to the Oireachtas
- Mensaje a la nación
- Ministerial broadcast
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah's 11 August Speech
- New Year Address by the President of Russia
- Nutuk
- Opening of regular sessions of the National Congress of Argentina
- Opening of the Canadian parliament
- Orkhon inscriptions
- Pericles's Funeral Oration
- Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly
- Prinsjesdag
- Redfern Park Speech
- Rodrigo Duterte's August 7, 2016, speech
- Royal Christmas message
- September Declaration
- Singapore National Day rally
- Solemn Opening of the Parliament of Spain
- Special address by the British monarch
- Speech from the throne
- Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
- State Opening of Parliament
- State of the Nation (Ghana)
- State of the Nation (Luxembourg)
- State of the Nation Address (Belarus)
- State of the Nation Address (Philippines)
- State of the Union
- Tariat inscriptions
- Vive le Québec libre
- Without you (speech)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Eve_National_Speech