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Charles II
son of queen Juana "The Mad" of Castile. he had a enormous jaw and head, with a long tongue. he could barely read and write. Spain under his reign was bad. there was hunger and a stagnant economy. He married twice. he managed the country through a series of "validos". he was exsorcised ore than once. He died the 1st of november 1700 at the age of 38 in the Royal Alcazar. His burial was in the Escorial.he died in 1700 leaving Philip V as his sucessor. he was the last habsurg ruler of Spain. -
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Joseph I Reign
He started to role as king of Germany from 1690; then he roled in Hungary from 1687 and finally in 1705 he became the King of Bohemia, the Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria and King of Croatia. He lost all this crowns after his died in 1711. -
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Joseph I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_I,_Holy_Roman_EmperorJoseph I was Holy Roman Emperor from 1705 until his death in 1711. He was the eldest son of Emperor Leopold I. Joseph was crowned King of Hungary at the age of nine in 1687, and King in Germany at the age of eleven in 1690. He succeeded to the imperial throne and that of Bohemia when his father died. Joseph continued the War of the Spanish Succession, begun by his father, against Louis XIV of France, in anattempt to make his younger brother Charles VI, (Holy Roman Emperor) King of Spain. -
Charles II ´s death
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/charles_ii_king.shtmlAt the age of 38 Charles II died without any succession so he led the crown to Philip of Arjou. -
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Philip V
first known as Philip of Anjou, he was the founder of the of the Bourbon dinasty in Spain. He was was son of the dauphin Louis ( son of Louis XIV of France) and of Marie Anne, dsaughter of Ferdoinand, elector of Bavaria. He experienced attacks af manic depression, which made him not govern effectively. In 1713 the treaty of utrecht was signed and Philip was universally recognise as king of Spain. it was in January 1724 when Philip announced his decision to abdicate in favour of his eldest son. -
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War of Spanish Succesion
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/civil_n2/histscript6_n2/span_succ.html the war of spanish was a conflict between Europe, north america and south america in the eighteen century. it was mainly caused by the dead of CHarles II without a heir. and louis XIV of france proclaimed king of Spain. however many countries wanted the Archduke Charles of Austria on the spanish throne, instead of phillip, grandson of Louis. -
Treaty of Utrecht
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Treaty_of_Utrechta series of individual treaties which brought an end to the War of Spanish Sucession. It was signed in he Dutch city of Utrecht in March and April 1713. It included spain, Great Britain, France, Portugal, Savoy and the Dutch Republic signatures. -
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louis I
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-king-of-SpainHe was born in august 25, 1707, In the palacio del buen retiro, Madrid. His parents were Maria Luisa of Savoy and Philip V. He was born in the House of Bourbon. his reign was one of the sortest due to his death from small pox. louis made no contributions to the Spanish Kingdom. on his death his parents returned to the throne and ruled until his death in 1746. in 1722 he married Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, at Lerma. -
The Three Family Compacts
Family Compact, several alliances between France and Spain in the form of agreements between the French and Spanish branches of the Bourbon family. The first of the three compacts, the Treaty of the Escorial (1733), was continued and extended by the second agreement (1743). The third, and most important, of the treaties was that of 1761. -
Treaty of Escorial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacte_de_Famillewas made by by King Philip V of Spain and King Louis XV of France.Louis XV was Philip's nephew. He had married Maria Leszczyńska, the daughter of King Stanislaus I of Poland. Because of this marriage alliance France became involved in the War of the Polish Succession in 1733. Philip V formed a plan to use this conflict to win back lost territory in Italy for his sons. He allied Spain to France. Because of his close relationship with Louis XV their alliance became known as the Family Compact. -
Treaty of fontainebleau
Was made by King Philip V of Spain and King Louis XV of France.This pact was signed in the middle of the War of Austrian Succession, and most of its clauses had to do with the conduct of the war. The result was the expansion of Spanish influence in Italy when Philip V's fourth son Philip, became in 1748 Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla. -
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Ferdinand VI
Son of the first marriage of Philip V. He tried to keep peace by reducing the weight of military expending. Spain dind´t participate in any war after the war of Sucession. The ministers were focused in the economic and finantial reconstruction of the country. Reforms in the finance were made as well as in the "Marina" vital for the comerce and the american empire. Ferdinand protected art and science and created new cultural centers. he died without heir, making Charles III the sucessor. -
treaty of Paris
It was made by King Charles III of Spain and Louis XV . Charles's alliance reversed the policy of his predecessor, Ferdinand VI, who wished to keep Spain out of the war. The agreement involved Spain's allies Naples and Tuscany. When Spain became involved, the British occupied the Philippines and Cuba. Charles III recovered these possessions in the Treaty of Paris (1763), but ceded Florida to the British. -
Esquilache Riot
occurred during the rule of Charles III of Spain because someone had to be take the blame. Mostly caused by the growing discontent in Madrid about the rising costs of bread and other staples. When the riot was quelled he was sacked. -
Jesuists expelled by Borbons
The expulsion of Jesuists was the result of political moves of theological controversy. Monarchies attempting to centralize and secularize political power viewed the Jesuits as being too international, too strongly allied to the papacy, and too autonomous from the monarchs in whose territory they operated. -
the American declaration of independence
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/declaration-of-independenceThe Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,[2] then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.In mid-June 1776, a five-man committee including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin was tasked with drafting a formal statement of the colonies. -
Treaty of Paris
This treaty between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation.The treaty is named for the city in which it was negotiated and signed. The last page bears the signatures of David Hartley, who represented Great Britain, and the three American negotiators, who signed their names in alphabetical order. -
French Revolution: The storming of Bastille
A state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy’s dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed. At the time of the storming, the Bastille was only guarded by a few soldiers. There were 80 "invalides" and around 30 grenadiers from the Swiss mercenary regiments. Marquis Bernard-Rene de Launay was the invalid´s governor. -
Execution of Louis XVI
He met his fate only a day after the National Convention condemned him to death and only hours after saying goodbye to his queen Marie-Antoinette and their children the previous night.It had taken two hours for a large escort of cavalrymen to bring him to the Place de la Revolution through a massive crowd that had gathered to witness the historical moment.The time of death of France's king was 10.15am, five-and-a-quarter hours after he rose from his bed. it was carried to the Church of Madeleine -
War of Pyrenees
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_PyreneesThe War of the Pyrenees, also known as War of Roussillon or War of the Convention, was the war against the First French Republic troops.The war was fought in the eastern Pyrenees, the western Pyrenees, at the French port of Toulon, and at sea. -
Napoleon First Consul
The Consulate was the government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of Brumaire in 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire in 1804. By extension, the term The Consulate also refers to this period of French history.
During this period, Napoleon Bonaparte, as First Consul, established himself as the head of a more conservative, authoritarian, autocratic, and centralized republican government in France while not declaring himself head of state. -
Trafalgar War
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought by the Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). 33 ships (27 ships of the line and six others) formed United Kingdom army and 41 ships (France: 18 ships of the line and eight others and Spain: 15 ships of the line) -
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Peninsular War
http://www.peninsularwar.org/penwar_e.htmThe Peninsular War was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and the allied powers of Spain, Britain and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war started when French and Spanish armies invaded and occupied Portugal in 1807, and escalated in 1808 when France turned on Spain, its ally until then. The war on the peninsula lasted until the Sixth Coalition defeated Napoleon in 1814. -
Treaty of Fontainebleu
The Treaty of Fontainebleau was a political agreement that was signed between Napoleon Bonaparte of France and Charles IV of Spain on October 27, 1807, in Fontainebleau, France. BThe Treaty of Fontainebleau was one of the causes that triggered the Peninsular War. By this accord Napoleon wanted to secure and ensure the Continental Blockade he had imposed on Britain in 1806 by capturing the Portuguese ports. -
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Ferdinand VII
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/people/ferdinand-vii-king-spain.htmlKng of Spain in 1808 and from 1814 to1833. Between 1808 and 1813 he was imprisioned in France by Napoleon. e suppressed the liberal press 1814-33 and jailed many of its editors and writers. Spain entered into civil war on his death. -
Abdications of Bayonne
The Abdications of Bayonne is the name given to a series of forced abdications of the Kings of Spain that led to the Peninsular War. The failed El Escorial Conspiracy preceded the Mutiny of Aranjuez, which forced King Charles IV to abdicate the throne to his son Ferdinand VII in 1808 by order of the Spanish Royal Council. -
Spanish First Constituition
http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3078905261/spain-constitution-1812.htmlEstablished by the Cádiz Cortes, Spain's first national sovereign assembly, in refuge in Cádiz during the Peninsular War. It established the principles of universal male suffrage, national sovereignty, constitutional monarchy and freedom of the press, and supported land reform and free enterprise. The Spaniards nicknamed the Constitution La Pepa, possibly because it was adopted on Saint Joseph's Day, 'Pepa' being a nickname for 'Josephine'. -
Pronunciamiento de Riego
http://lena-historiaysociedad.blogspot.com.es/2013/01/el-pronunciamiento-de-riego-1-de-enero.htmlIt was a militar coup carried by the commander Riego. This coup sets an end to the absolutist government developed by Ferdinand VII during the first period of his reign, and a liberal government is stablished. It was performed in Cabezas de San Juan (Seville).The ruling arose among the officers of the troops to combat the American revolt , due to the existence of a major upset in the army at the end of 1819 , by the exclusion of liberal government. -
the hundred thousand sons of saint Louis
The Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis ( known in France as " the issuing of Spain " ) was a French contingent Spanish volunteers who fought in Spain in 1823 in defense of the old regime by advocating Fernando VII of Spain , ending Realistic War and the Liberal Triennium. 60,000 soldiers and many mercenaries and civilian supported it. -
pragmatic sanction
it was promulgated as a result of the Law Sálica, which prohibitd the women to inherit the Spanish Crown. Fernando VII of Spain had a serious problem: it did not have children men, only two daughters, Isabel (later well-known like Isabel II of Spain ) and Luisa Fernanda de Borbón . His father, Carlos IV of Spain, had made a timid attempt eliminate the sálica law, and Fernando decided to carry out promulgating it Pragmatic Sanction, so that her greater daughter could inherit the throne. -
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Isabella II
he reigned during a period of palace intrigues, back-stairs and antechamber influences, barracks conspiracies, and military pronunciamientos to further the ends of the political parties. Queen Isabella often interfered in politics. She showed favour to her reactionary generals and statesmen and to the Church and religious orders. Other events of her reign were the war against Morocco (1859). she finally abdicate the 25 of June 1870 -
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Regency of MAria Cristina
The regency of Maria Cristina de Borbon is the first period of the minority of Isabel II of Spain during which her mother Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies assumed the functions corresponding to the Crown (1833-1840) and has to cope the First Carlist War unleashed by supporters of Carlos, the king 's brother died in September 1833 Fernando VII does not recognize the Pragmatic Sanction of 1789 allowing women to reign and was made public by Fernando VII in March 1830. to counter the Carlists -
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Regency of Espartero
On his return to Madrid, Baldomero Espartero becamed head of the government and elected a cabinet of ministers who agreed with his progressive ideas. Espartero was then himself appointed regent by the Cortes (May 1842), or Spanish Parliament. Generals Concha and Diego de León atempted to seize Isabella in September 1841. A republican revolt in 1842 was put down with equal hardness. In 1843 Generals Ramón Narváez and Francisco Serrano rose against Espartero and obliged him to flee to England. -
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Spanish Glorious Constitution
In September 1868, naval forces under Juan Baptista Topete munitied in Cadiz. In 1868, Queen Isabella retired from Spanish politics to Paris. She lived there in exile until her death in 1904.
The coalition of liberals, moderates and republicans were faced with the task of creating a government that would suit them better than Isabella. The control of the government passed to Francisco Serrano, named regent by the cortes, which rejected the notion of a republic. -
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Amadeus of Savoy
Elected by the Cortes as Spain´s monarch in 1870. Amadeo´s regin was fraught with growing republocanisms, Carlist rebellions in the north and the Cuban independence movement. He abdicated and returned to Italy in 1873, and the First Spanish Republic was declared as a result -
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Three Carlist Civil Wars
During this conflict, Carlist forces managed to occupy several towns in the interior of Spain, the most important ones being La Seu d'Urgell and Estella in Navarre. The Carlist pretender Charles VII tried to earn the support of those areas with more region-specific customs and former laws. The Carlists proclaimed the restoration of Catalonian, Valencian and Aragonese fueros. -
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First Revolution
King Amadeo I abducated the Spanish throne on 10 February 1873. The First Republic of Spain followed Amadeo´s abdication. This Republic was characterized by profound political and social instability and violence, governed by four presidents: Estanislao Figueras, Pi i Margall, Nicolás Salmerón and Emilio Castelar, until General Manuel Pavía mounted a coup d'etat and estabished a unifid republic led by General Francisco Serrano in 1874
