Biography
Jordi Solé Tura (Mollet del Vallès 1930 - Barcelona 2009). Professor in Political Law, Constitutional Law professor, and politician. He was one of the drafters of the 1978 Spanish Constitution and the Statute of Autonomy of 1979, the first minister with the Socialist government, senator and member of the Council of Europe.
| 1930 | Jordi Solé Tura was born in Mollet del Vallès, May 23rd. |
| 1942 | Leaves studies, due to the premature death of his father and the civil war, and worked in the family business, the Ca la Vicenta bakery. Self-taught, he studied English. |
| 1951 | He starts secondary studies in Barcelona. |
| 1952 | He enters the University of Barcelona to study law. |
| 1956 | He joins in a PSUC (political party) and, together with other partners, constitutes the organization of intellectual. |
| 1957 | He receives extraordinary degree award. |
| 1959 | Professor Manuel Jiménez de Parga chooses Jordi Solé Tura as the first assistant professor from his chair of political law at the University of Barcelona. |
| 1960 | Went into exile in France. |
| 1962 | He moves to Bucharest, to work as speaker in the clandestine Radio Pirenaica. |
| 1964 | Back to Paris, worked as editor in chief of the magazine Reality with Claudin and Semprún. |
| 1965 | He returns to Catalonia where is turned out from the PSUC. |
| 1966 | He participated in the Caputxinada with over five hundred students and progressive intellectuals, which would imply that the ministerial sanction away for two years of teaching. |
| 1967 | Edicions 62 publishes his thesis Catalisme i revolució burgesa. He obtains his PhD with an excellent cum laude. |
| 1968 | During the French May participate in a meeting in Paris of intellectuals Catalan, M. Aurèlia Capmany, Jordi Borja and Josep Maria Castellet. |
| 1969 | Put into operation the Press Law Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne and Solé Tura is arrested and jailed. |
| 1970 | Joins Bandera Roja, clandestine group of university students and workers in Barcelona. |
| 1972 | Participate in the implementation of the Faculty of Law, University of Lleida. It is the first dean of the faculty. |
| 1974 | Solé Tura returned to teaching as an adjunct professor of political rights. Enter again to PSUC and is appointed member of the Central Committee and head of the front of intellectuals. |
| 1976 | Death of General Franco, the court appoints Solé Tura University lecturer of political rights. |
| 1977 | The first legislative elections give a seat of deputy by PSUC. Part of the group of speakers from the 1978 Constitution. |
| 1978 | Jordi Solé Tura speaker is proposed to draft the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia (Sau Statute). |
| 1982 | Gets the Chair of Constitutional Law. |
| 1983 | He is appointed unanimously by PSUC candidate for mayor of Barcelona. |
| 1985 | He was named dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Barcelona. |
| 1986 | Actively involved in several attempts to assembling the political left in Catalonia, as the "Conference of men and women left." Jury is part of Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences. |
| 1987 | He publishes the book Autonomies, federalisme i autodeterminació. |
| 1988 | Join the "Convention by a majority of national progress" and appears as a separate list of the PSC to Parliament elections in Catalonia. |
| 1989 | Part, as a member of the party, the nomination of the PSC in the general elections and is elected to Congress. |
| 1991 | He is appointed Culture Minister in the Socialist government headed by Felipe González. |
| 1992 | He was named vice president of the Second Conference of European Ministers Responsible for Cultural Heritage. |
| 1993 | Elected in general elections and appointed chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Congress. It is re-elected assemblies of the Council of Europe and the Western European Union. |
| 1995 | He is elected vice president of the Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe Member States. |
| 1996 | He is Member of Parliament for the PSC, PSOE Federal Committee member and senator for the Socialist Group. |
| 1998 | Council Town of Mollet del Vallès awarded him the Medal of the City. |
| 1999 | In autumn presents his autobiographical book Una història optimista. |
| 2000 | Was elected senator for Entesa Catalana pel Progrés, representing the PSC. |
| 2001 | He promotes the creation of the Catalan Committee for Refugees UNHCR. |
| He ends his participation in the Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe, begun in 1997. | |
| 2003 | Signature of the transfer the documentary Jordi Solé Tura to Council Town of Mollet del Vallès and creation of the Centre d'Estudis per la Democràcia. |
| The City Council of Barcelona granted him the Gold Medal of the city. | |
| 2004 | The University of Lleida appointed honorary doctorate. |
| End his participation in the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights Council of Europe, begun in 1994. | |
| 2005 | Creation of the Advisory Council of Centre d'Estudis per la Democràcia. |
| 2007 | The Government granted the Creu de Sant Jordi. |
| 2008 | Presentation of the documentary Bucarest, la memòria perduda, directed by his son, Albert Solé |
| 2009 | Jordi Solé Tura dies on December 4th. |
| 2010 | The Government granted the Gold Medal posthumously. |
| Congress and the Senate will pay tribute. | |
| Constitution of the Group of Friends of Jordi Solé Tura in Mollet del Vallès. | |
