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Alfonso XIII was born
He was born on May 17, 1886 in the Royal Palace of Madrid. He is the son of Maria Cristina of Habsburg and Alfonso XII
(although he died before his son was born) -
Coming of age of Alfonso XIII
Alfonso XIII turns 16 and comes to power, so the Regency of his mother María Cristina ends. -
Alfonso XIII marries
Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom's daughter, British Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, was his bride.
When Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia were returning to the Royal Palace after their wedding, they were attacked by an anarchist who threw a bomb hidden in a bunch t of flowers at their carriage, from which they fortunately escaped uninjured. Three officers and five soldiers were killed in the incident. -
Tragic Week of 1909
The Tragic Week refers to the events that occured in Barcelona and other Catalan cities between July 26 and August 2, 1909. The decree of Antonio Maura's government to send troops from the reserve to the Spanish territories in Morocco, which were at the time quite insecure, promoted these violent events, with the majority of these reservists being fathers of working-class households. A general strike was organized by the unions. -
The Crisis of 1917
The Crisis of 1917 is the name given by Spanish historiography to a series of events that occurred in Spain in the summer of 1917, particularly three main obstacles that attacked the government and even the Restoration system itself: a military movement (the Defense Boards), a political movement (the Regionalist League's Assembly of Parliamentarians in Barcelona), and a social movement (the revolutionary general strike). -
General Strike
The general strike is considered by its nature a revolutionary general strike that took place in Spain in August 1917. It was called by the UGT (socialist) and the Partido Socialista Obrero Español, and in some places it was supported by the CNT (anarcho-syndicalist ). -
Battle of Annual
On July 22, 1921, near the Moroccan town of Annual, a severe Spanish military defeat over the Rif people led by Abd el-Krim resulted in a revision of Spain's colonial policies in the Rif War.
The political crisis that led to this defeat was one of many that destroyed Alfonso XIII's liberal monarchy basis. -
The dictatorship of Primo de Rivera
Primo de Rivera's dictatorship (1923-1930) was the second phase of Alfonso XIII's personal monarchy in which the king did not oppose Primo de Rivera's coup d'état, which terminated the liberal regime. As a result of Alfonso XIII's connecting of his fate to that of the dictatorship, when Primo de Rivera's effort to introduce an authoritarian regime failed and he resigned in January 1930, the monarchy itself was called into doubt. -
Second Republic and the exile of Alfonso XIII
The Second Republic started more or less when the king voluntarily left Spain after the April 1931 municipal elections. Since then, he lived moving around the world, without establishing a residence. The king without his crown walked like a monarchist nomad. -
Alfonso XIII death
He died in Rome, where he was initially buried. His remains were not transferred to the Pantheon of the Kings of the Monastery of El Escorial until 1980