King Alfonso XII

Birth of Alfonso XIII

1886 BCE

His posthumous son Alfonso XIII was born in 1886.
He assumed effective power at 16 years of age on May 17, 1902

The unexpected death of Alfonso XII

1885 BCE

The monarch died of tuberculosis to the surprise of his subjects, who were unaware of his illness at the Pardo ‘s Palace .The king will have turned 28 three days later.

María Cristina regent Queen

1885 BCE

María Cristina swears allegiance to the heir to the Crown before the Cortes, on December 30, 1885. The pregnant queen is accompanied by her two daughters .

Alfonso XII visits the colerics of Aranjuez .

1885 BCE

The visit of King Alfonso XII to the royal site of Aranjuez, to console the victims of the cholera epidemic that plagued the country in 1885, was an extraordinary general recognition of the royal figure but the government's resentment.  

The Andalusian earthquake

1884 BCE

At around nine o'clock on Christmas day 1884, a large seismic shock struck part of the region of Axarquía and much of that of the westernmost province of Granada. The epicenter took place in Arenas del Rey (Granada). This earthquake was called "The Andalusian Earthquake". Alfonso XII visited Andalusia to be with the victims of the strong earthquake.

King Alfonso XII’s visit to different countries.

1883 BCE

Alfonso XII made an official visit to Belgium, Austria, Germany and France in 1883. In Germany he accepted the destiny like honorary colonel of a regiment of the garrison of Alsace, territory conquered by the Germans and whose sovereignty claimed France. This fact gave rise to a hostile reception to the Spanish monarch by the people of Paris during their official visit to that country.

His first daughter ‘s birth

1880 BCE

in 1880 the first daughter of Alfonso XII was born, called María de las Mercedes de Borbón

The wedding with María Cristina

1879 BCE

It was a wedding celebrated in a big way, but without illusion. On November 29, 1879, King Alfonso XII and María Cristina de Habsburgo-Lorena married in Madrid. The memory of the king's first wife, María de las Mercedes, was too recent.

The visit to Murcia

1879 BCE

The young romantic king visited the capital and the old kingdom of Murcia twice. The official one, which concerns us, in February 1877 and the forced one, due to the catastrophe of the devastating ´Riada de Santa Teresa´ . In 1879 the heart of Murcia was won in an orchard in Murcia.

“Paz de zanjón “

1878 BCE

The document that establishes the capitulation of the Cuban Liberation Army against the Spanish troops, ending the so-called Ten Years War (1868-1878) is known as Paz de Zanjón or Pacto del Zanjón.

The wedding with María de las Mercedes

1878 BCE

On January 23, 1878 at twelve in the morning, King Alfonso XII married María de las Mercedes de Orleáns y Borbón in the royal Basilica of Atocha. It was the most romantic wedding of the century, the beautiful culmination of a passionate love story. The young people met when she was a baby and he was barely two years old.

The death of his wife

1878 BCE

The marriage was brief due to the premature death of Queen Mercedes due to typhus five months later. She died at the Royal Palace in Madrid, two days after her 18th birthday, accompanied at all times by her husband. She was buried in a chapel of the Monastery of El Escorial, and could not be in the royal pantheon, specifically reserved for queens who had descendants.

Third Carlist war

1876 BCE

The Third and last Carlist War ended, lasting four years. Behind her, moderate Carlism would forever separate from the Levante current to form an alternative political option to liberalism. A new Constitution is promulgated.

Alfonso’s returned

1875 BCE

Alfonso XII returned to Spain via Barcelona and entered the capital on January 14. It is highly significant that, just five days later, the first action taken as head of the Spanish state could be to the north to direct military operations against the Carlists. The image of "soldier king" that the Alfonso's propaganda had begun to spread months ago, was beginning to take effective form.

Sandhurst Manifiesto

1874 BCE

Sandhurst Manifiesto was published,signed by king Alfonso XII .It is so named because the joung Borbón ,was studying at the British military academy in Sandhurst,when he was in exile,
after the departure of the royal family following the revolution of 1868 ,and the course of the called Democratic Sexennium .
Himself expressed the will to be King,and because in him ideas of his true author, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo,on how to build a political regime began to be made public

Alfonsino movement

1873 BCE

Antonio Cánovas del Castillo is commiserate to lead the Alfonsino movement.
The Alfonsino’s Party ,symbolized by Antonio Cánovas del Castillo,defends private property and a liberalism that should be found between the Isabel moderantism and the democracy of the Revolutionary Sexennium.

Year became king

1870 BCE

Queen Isabel II abdicates her son Alfonso XII and he became the new predecessor of the throne in

Revolution 1868

1868 BCE

The Revolution of 1868 called the Septembrina, was a military uprising with civilian elements that took place in Spain in September 1868 and involved the dethronement and exile of Queen Isabel II and her family.At this time the period of the Democratic Sexennium began

Time and place of birth

1857 BCE

Alfonso XII was born in the Royal Palace of Madrid (Madrid ) on November 28. Son of Queen Elizabeth II and consort of King Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, the beginning of his reign ended the First Republic and the passage to the period known as the Restoration.