2008 in Spain

The following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Kingdom of Spain.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Juan Carlos I
 * Prime Minister: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Regional presidents

 * Andalusia: Manuel Chaves
 * Aragón: Marcelino Iglesias
 * Asturias: Vicente Álvarez Areces
 * Balearic Islands: Francesc Antich
 * Basque Country: Juan José Ibarretxe
 * Canary Islands: Paulino Rivero
 * Cantabria: Miguel Ángel Revilla
 * Castilla–La Mancha: José María Barreda
 * Castile and León: Juan Vicente Herrera
 * Catalonia: José Montilla
 * Extremadura: Guillermo Fernández Vara
 * Galicia: Emilio Pérez Touriño
 * La Rioja: Pedro Sanz
 * Community of Madrid: Esperanza Aguirre
 * Region of Murcia: Ramón Luis Valcárcel
 * Navarre: Miguel Sanz
 * Valencian Community: Francisco Camps
 * Ceuta: Juan Jesús Vivas
 * Melilla: Juan José Imbroda

Events

 * March 9 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is reelected as Prime Minister after defeating Mariano Rajoy.
 * April 5 – Greenpeace announces that in November 2007 a radioactive leak was reported at the Ascó Nuclear Power Plant, but it was kept hidden from the press.
 * August 20 – Spanair flight 5022 crashed just after takeoff from runway 36L of Barajas Airport, killing 154 of the 166 people on board.
 * December 31 – A truck-bomb explodes near the EITB headquarters in Bilbao.
 * 942 Dakar, historia de una familia, a documentary film is released.

Births

 * 11 August – Levi Díaz, Singer

Deaths

 * February 26 – Rogelio Baón, politician (born 1942)
 * May 3 – Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Prime Minister (1981–82)