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Pacto de San Sebastian
Republicans and socialists meet in San Sebastian and agree to overthrow the monarchy and stablish a democratic republican regime -
Reformist biennium
NIceto Alcala-Zamora was named president of the republic and Manuel Azaña was named president of the goverment
The ¡y introduced several reforms as:
The statute of Autonomy of Cataluña
The subordination of the army
The expulsion of the Jesuits
The agrarian reform -
Municipal elections
The new goverment chosed by the king call the first free elections sin Rpimo de Rivera´s coup´. The elections are municipal but everyone understands them as a referendum on the monarchy. The monarchists but the republicans win in important cities and Alfonso XIII leaves the country -
The republic is estalished
The republic is proclaimed and on the same say the Revolutionary Commite becomes the Provisional Republican Goverment.
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The republican constitution is published
The main democratic features where:
Popular sovereignity
Division of powers
Declaration of civil rights
Secularism
Regionalism
Social economy -
General Sanjurjo coup ´ de etap
General sanjurjo starts a coup in Sevilla but failed and he flee to Portugal -
Revolts in Cadiz
Anarchist labourers ocupied the land in Casas Vejas. The revolt was severely repressed by Azañas goverment, thus finish the reformist biennium -
The black biennium
Elections were held in Nomember 1933. This was the first time that women could vote. The anarchists encouraged people not to vote the right wing parties (CEDA)
Some leaders like Francisco Largo Caballero feared that CEDA beccame fascist and call a general strike wich became a revolution -
Revolution of october 1934
Cataluña declared itself independent. In response the Generalitat was dissolved and the president, Lluis Companys was arrested
In Asturias the miners staged an armed revolt. It was severely put down by the army -
The popular front
There were elections in febuary
The left-wing paries joined to form the Popular front and won with almost 60% meanwhile the right-wing parties joined to form the Bloque Nacional and the Falange Española
Parliament replaced Azaña as president of the Republic and Santiago Caceres-Quirogs es presidentof the goverment -
The start of the civil war
The atmosphere was very tense in the parliament
There was a lot of street violence and there were a lot of arsons in the churches. On 12th July Liutenant Castillo a member og the goverment´s assault guard and a socialist simpathiser is murdered by right-wing gunmen. In revenge some of Castillo´s friends muerder the right-wing deputie Calvo Sotelo the following day
This event triggered a military coup that started the civil war
