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Isabel ll
Isabel II of Spain, (Madrid, October 10, 1830-Paris, April 9, 1904), was queen of Spain between 1833 and 1868, thanks to the repeal of the Salic Law in 1713 through the Pragmatic Sanction of 1830. This provoked the insurgency of the infante Carlos María Isidro, brother of Fernando VII and uncle of Isabel II, who, supported by the Carlists, had already tried to proclaim himself king during Ferdinand's agony. -
Beginning of the First Carlist War
The First Carlist War was a civil war that took place in Spain between 1833 and 1840 between the Carlists, supporters of the infant Carlos María Isidro de Borbón and an absolutist regime, and the Elizabethans or Cristines, defenders of Isabel II and the regent María Cristina de Borbón, whose government was originally moderate absolutist and ended up becoming liberal to obtain popular support. -
Royal Statute
The Royal Statute was promulgated in Spain in April 1834 by the regent María Cristina de Borbón as a charter granted, like the one that governed the Monarchy of Louis XVIII in France, by which new Cortes were created halfway between the Cortes estate and modern ones. It was not a Constitution, among other reasons, because it did not emanate from national sovereignty but from the sovereignty of the absolute king who self-limited his powers of his own will. -
Juan Alvarez Mendizabal
Juan Álvarez Mendizábal was a Spanish economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 25 September 1835 to 15 May 1836.
He was born to Rafael Álvarez Montañés, a cloth merchant, and Margarita Méndez, of converso origin.[1] He was given training in banking, first working in a bank and then in the military administration during the Peninsular War. At the time he became a member of "Taller Sublime", a Cádiz masonic lodge. -
Constitution of 1837
The Spanish Constitution of 1837 was promulgated in Spain during the regency of María Cristina de Borbón. It was an initiative of the Progressive Party to approve a constitution of consensus with the Moderate Party that would allow the alternation of the two liberal parties without having to change the Constitution every time the government changed. It was in force until 1845, when the Moderate Party imposed its own Constitution. -
Vergara Convention
Abrazo de Vergara or Vergara Agreement is called an agreement that was signed in Oñate (Guipúzcoa) on August 31, 1839 between the Isabelline general Espartero and thirteen representatives of the Carlist general Maroto and which ended the First Carlist War in the north. from Spain. The agreement was confirmed with the hug that Espartero and Maroto gave each other, this same day, before the troops of both armies gathered in the fields of Vergara, the reason for its popular name. -
Constitution of 1845
The Spanish Constitution of 1845 was the supreme norm during the effective reign of Isabel II, which replaced the Constitution of 1837 supreme norm during her minority. The Constitution of 1845 was in force until the proclamation of the Spanish constitution of 1869, although there were several attempts to replace it in 1852 and during the progressive biennium (1854-1856). It was the constitutional expression of Spanish doctrinaireism. -
Moyano Law
The law regulating education, known as the Moyano Law, was a Spanish law promoted in 1857 by the Moderate Party government. It incorporated a good part of the Public Instruction Bill of December 9, 1855, prepared during the Progressive Biennium by the Minister of Development Manuel Alonso Martínez. It was approved thanks to the legislative initiative promoted by Claudio Moyano. -
O'Donell Coup
The Progressive Biennium had begun with the revolution of 1854 in Spain that put Baldomero Espartero (of the Progressive Party) as president of the Council of Ministers of Spain, and whose government would end with the coup d'état of General O'Donnell, who—with the support from France and Great Britain, and from the British embassy in Madrid—gave it in July 1856, ceding the presidency of the council of ministers to O'Donnell himself. -
Ostend Pact
AUG 16, 1866 The Ostend Pact was the agreement signed on August 16, 1866 in the Belgian city of Ostend by the Progressive Party and the Democratic Party, at the initiative of the progressive general Juan Prim, to overthrow the monarchy of Isabel II of Spain. This pact, to which the Liberal Union joined at the beginning of 1868, was the origin of "La Gloriosa", the revolution that deposed the Spanish queen in September 1868. -
O’Donnell
Leopoldo O'Donnell y Jorris, 1st Duke of Tetuán, GE (12 January 1809 – 5 November 1867), was a Spanish general and Grandee who was Prime Minister of Spain on several occasions. He was born at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands, a son of Carlos O'Donnell (born 1768) and Josefa Jorris y Casaviella. -
End of the regin of Isabel II
The final crisis of the reign of Isabel II constitutes the fourth and final period into which the reign of Isabel II of Spain is usually divided. It begins in March 1863 with the fall of the Liberal Union government of General Leopoldo O'Donnell and ends with the Revolution of 1868 that put an end to the Monarchy of Isabel II - who went into exile - and opened the new stage of history. contemporary Spain called the Democratic Sexenio (1868-1874).