What the records say
- When
- 20 Oct 1899
- Kind
- Protest
- Coordinates
- 41.85° N, 1.57° E
- Description
- Protest of merchants and industrialists against the government in 1899.
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Tancament de caixes
Tax strike in Barcelona in 1899
The tancament de caixes was a tax strike in the period of July to November 1899 in Barcelona by merchants and industrialists against tax hikes put in place by the Francisco Silvela cabinet and his minister of the Treasury, Raimundo Fernández Villaverde in order to pay for the expenses of the Spanish–American War.
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