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Napoleon invaded spain
Napoleon had installed his brother Joseph as the king of Spain and sent 118,000 soldiers across into Spain to insure his rule. Determined to bend the Spanish people to his will, he had decided to make Spain a part of his empire. He imagined they would be welcomed. -
Spanish Constitution of 1812
On March 19, 1812, during the Spanish War of Independence (1808-14), the Cortes of Cádiz promulgated the Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy, affectionately known as "La Pepa" for having been enacted on Saint Joseph's day. The constitution had ten titles and 384 articles and was of a markedly liberal character. -
Absolutist restin Spain
The absolutist restoration in Spain was a period of the reign of Ferdinand VII between 1814, after his return to Spain, and his death in 1833, in which he returned to an absolutist monarchy regime, repealing the constitutional and liberal monarchy initiated by the Cortes. of Cádiz from 1810. -
Carlist war
Between 1833 and 1840 the first episode of the Carlist Wars took place in Spain. The last clashes of this war took place on the so-called Maestrazgo or Aragon and Valencia front, which mainly affected the lands of Lower Aragon, the north of Castellón and the south of Catalonia. -
Spanish confiscation
The Spanish confiscation was a long historical, economic and social process that began at the end of the 18th century with the so-called "Disentailment of Godoy" - although there was a precedent in the reign of Charles III - and ended well into the 20th century. -
Progressive Biennium
Progressive Biennium is the name by which the brief period in the history of Spain that elapsed between July 1854 and July 1856 is known. -
The Revolutionary Sexennium
- In September of that year, a military pronouncement initiated in Cádiz and led by a group of dissatisfied generals, would give way to the so-called “September Revolution” or “Glorious”, which expelled Queen Isabel II from Spain. Thus, a new stage in the History of Spain began, the Democratic Sexennium, during which new political formulas were tested.
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3rd Carlist War
The Amnesty Act of 1872 gives back full civil rights, including the right to hold office, to most of the 150,000 former Confederate officials and leaders who fought to secede from the United States. On Tuesday, November 5, 1872, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant wins reelection. -
Amadeo's abdication
Amadeo I's abdication in February prompted the First Republic in Spain. Political tensions ensued, and a military coup in January 1874 dissolved Parliament. Subsequently, another military coup restored the Bourbons to the Spanish throne. -
spanish amerkcan war
The Spanish-American War was a military conflict that pitted Spain and the United States against each other from April to August 1898, when the United States intervened in the Cuban War of Independence.