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HEADS OF GOVERNMENT: MENDIZABAL
Mendizabal governed from 25 September 1835 to 15 May 1836. Mendizabal disenteilment happened during de Mendizabal’s government -
MENDIZABAL DISENTAILMENT
The disentailment of Mendizábal was a process in which the government expropriated and sold land owned by the church, with the fundamental aim of raising funds to face the Carlist war. -
VERGARA AGREEMENT
Vergara agreement was a treaty signed in Oñate on 31 August 1839, between the Isabelline General Espartero and thirteen representatives of the Carlist General Maroto, which put an end to the first Carlist war in the north of Spain. -
END OF MARIA CRISTINA’S REGENCY
The regent María Cristina de Borbón, after the revolution of 1840 that caused her resignation, left the country. She embarked in Valencia on the "Vapor Mercurio" for France. General Baldomero Espartero succeeds her as regent. -
HEADS OF GOVERNMENT: RAMON MARIA NARVAEZ
Ramón María Narváez, Duke of Valencia supported Queen Isabel II and served six times as Prime Minister of Spain from 1844 to 1866. -
MODERATE CONSTITUTION
The constitution of 1845 was made during the moderate decade, when Queen Isabella II entrusted the formation of the government to the moderates alone. This constitution established shared sovereignty between the king and the Cortes elected by a very restricted suffrage. -
MODERATES
The moderates defended a doctrinaire liberalism, in favour of shared sovereignty between the Cortes and the Crown, which enjoyed broad powers. Defenders of order and property, which they identified with intelligence and ability, they were in favour of census suffrage and of limiting individual rights, especially collective rights. They defended the Catholic Church and preferred a centralised organisation of the State. -
PROGRESSIVES
The Progressives defended national sovereignty and the limitation of the Crown's powers. They wanted wider suffrage and greater freedoms and rights, both individual and collective. They were in favour of state decentralisation and the National Militia. -
MADOZ DISENTAILMENT
The demoralisation was an event that declared all rural and urban lands, censuses and forums belonging to the State, the clergy and any others belonging to dead hands to be for sale. -
GENERAL RAILWAY LAW
The Railway Law of 1855 was decisive in promoting the development of the network; this law facilitated the raising of the foreign capital necessary to carry out the construction, even though it sacrificed the interests of some sectors of Spanish industry. -
MOYANO LAW
It was the foundation of legislation in the Spanish education system for more than a hundred years. -
HEADS OF GOVERNMENT O’DONNELL
It was particularly important in the so-called "long government" from 1858 to 1863. -
BATTLE OF CASTILLEJOS
The Battle of Castillejos was part of the African War, which pitted Spain against Morocco during the reign of Isabel II and the government of Leopoldo O'Donnell. The Spanish troops managed to dislodge the enemy from their positions, who retreated. -
HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF: FRANCISCO SERRANO Y DOMINGUEZ
Francisco Serrano y Domínguez, a general who had been in exile in the Canary Islands until shortly before the pronunciamiento, joined the revolution, along with Prim, Sagasta and Ruiz Zorrilla, among others.