7 Hª IF YOU COULD CHANGE .(event) IN HISTORY, HOW WOULD LIFE HAD BEEN....?
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Start of the War of Succession
The United Provinces and England then approached the Emperor and pledged to grant the succession of Spain to his second son, Archduke Charles of Austria. In September 1701 a coalition was formed and in June 1702 it declared war on France and Spain. -
Delivery of Giblartar from Spain to the United Kingdom
Philip V, King of Spain, ceded ownership of the Rock of Gibraltar to Queen Anne I of Great Britain. -
Birth of Charles IV
King of Spain from 1748 to 1819. Son and successor of Charles III. He pitted Spain against revolutionary France in the Convention War (1794-1795) and was defeated. Under the auspices of his prime minister, Godoy, he radically changed Spanish foreign policy and allied himself with Napoleon's France. -
French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars or Coalition Wars were a succession of war and political conflicts between the French revolutionary government and Austria until the signing of the Treaty of Luneville in 1801. -
Guerras Napoleónicas
The Napoleonic Wars, also known as the Coalition Wars, were a series of wars that took place during the reign of Emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte in France. -
Spanish War of Independence
The war was caused by Napoleon's conquest of the Spanish nation, taking advantage of its military and political weakness, forcing the Spanish monarchs to abdicate and Napoleon's brother Joseph I was crowned king. -
Spanish-American Wars of Independence
The Spanish-American Wars of Independence were a series of conflicts between 1808 and 1824 between the former colonial possessions in the Americas that sought independence from the Spanish Empire, pitting the patriots against the royalists. -
End of Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte spent the last years of his life as a deportee on the island from 1815 until his death on 5 May 1821. -
Birth of Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II, whom Pérez Galdós called "she of the sad destinies", was Queen of Spain between 1833 and 1868, when she was dethroned by the so-called "Glorious Revolution". -
Birth of Alfonso XII
His reign consisted mainly of consolidating the monarchy and institutional stability, repairing the damage that the internal struggles of the years of the so-called Revolutionary Sexenio had left behind, earning him the nickname of "the Peacemaker".