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Sandhurst Manifiesto
Antonio Cánovas, the leader of the future Conservative Party, wrote a manifiesto signed in Sandhurst promising a constitutional movement. -
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Reign of Alfonso XII
The monarchy was restored under Alfonso XII of Bourbon. It Restoration was made possible through the political manoeuvring of Antonio Cánovas and through a military revolution, where Alfonso XII was proclaimed king. -
PSOE is founded
PSOE was founded by Pablo Iglesias in 1879 and was consolidated by the huge surge in the labour movement during this period. -
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Regency of María Christina
While Alfonso XII died, the resortation was maintained by the regency of María Christina, because her son Alfonso XIII who had to be the king, was still a child. -
Bases de Manresa
They are bases in which catalan nationalism get status for the Catalan language the establishment of Catalan political parties and courts, and Catalan autonomy. -
Teatry of Paris
It was the teatry that Spain signed when their fleets where destroyed by the US. in which they recognised the independence of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. -
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Reign of Alfonso XIII
Alfonso XIII acceded to the throne in 1902 in a political environment characterised by the crisis of Cánovas del Castillo's system. Up until the year 1917, the two-party rotational system was maintained. In 1917, Spain suffered a crisis that deeply affected in military, politic and society areas. -
Tragic week of 1909
It was a week when there were violent protests in Barcelona due to a war with the inhabitants of the Rif; a war that in 1909 required reservists to be called up, the majority of whom were fathers. -
Disaster of Annual
It was the brutal defeat that Spain suffered in the Rif war against Morocco. -
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Dicatorship of Primo de Rivera
The dicatorship of Primo de Rivera went through two stages, which had to different governments:
-The Military Directory, where Primo de Rivera suspended the constitution, dissolved the Cortes, prohibited
political parties and suppressed the labour movement.
-The Civil Directory, when Primo de Rivera get to maintain the power until 1930.
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Second Spanish Republic
In the Reformist Biennium,the left-wing parties won the elections and drafted a new constitution.Niceto Alcalá-Zamora was elected president of the Republic and he made some reforms.
In the conservative biennium,the government was formed by the centrist Radical Republican Party.They halted the majority of the previous reforms,so there was an increase in strikes. It led to another election where the left-wing parties, united in an electoral coalition known as the Popular Front , won the elections. -
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic
It was declared because of the citizens’ disapproval of the king’s support for the dictatorship. That caused significant Republican victories in the 1931 municipal elections for several major cities. -
October Revolution
The new government, led by Alejandro Lerroux, halted the majority of reforms that there were in that moment, which led to an increase in strikes and more actions by left-wing parties. Then, CEDA (another political party) demanded positions in the government, and this sparked the Ocober Revolution. -
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Spanish Civil War
The objective of the insurgents was to take Madrid but they encountered resistance.So it wasn't easy. The war then moved to the cantabrian coast and involved harsh battles, then moved to the Mediterranenan, where the insurgents intended to divide the Republican zone in two. To prevent this from happening, the Republicans launched an offensive known as the ‘Battle of the Ebro’. Finally, the insurgents advanced, took Catalonia in 1939 and entered Madrid with no resistence. -
Tragic Sring bombing of Gerninika
It was a battle during the civil war. It was by the German air force's Condor Legion. The German air force enabled the insurgents to control key industrial and mining areas. -
End of the Civil War
It was when the insurgents get to enter in Madrid with no resistence, in 1939.
