Franco is proclaimed Generalísimo
1936 · Event
The junta names Franco — junior among the plotters three months earlier, indispensable since the airlift — Generalísimo and head of state. Rivals die conveniently or are sidelined; alone among the era's dictators, he will rule until natural death forty years on.
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