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1868 BCE
Spanish Glorious Revolution
It was a military rebellion led by Juan Prim and Francisco Serrano. They overthrown Isabella II and deprived her of support from the army. She went into exile in France. Leaders of the revolution eventually recruited an Italian prince, Amadeo of Savoy, as king. His reign lasted two years, and he was replaced by the first Spanish Republic. That also lasted two years, until leaders in 1875 proclaimed Isabella's son, as King Alfonso XII in the Bourbon Restoration. -
Period: 1846 BCE to 1849 BCE
Second Carlist War
It was a short civil war fought primarily in Catalonia by the Carlists under General Ramón Cabrera against the forces of the government of Isabella II. Theoretically, the war was fought to facilitate the marriage of Isabella II with the Carlist pretender, Carlos de Borbón (or Carlos VI), which was supported by the moderate party and by the Carlists. The marriage never took place, as Isabella II was wed to Francisco de Borbón. -
1823 BCE
Cien mil Hijos de San Luis
It was the beginning of the Absolutism. Ferdinand asked the Holly Alliance to assist him in re-establishing the absolutism which lasted 10 years of repression and presecution. https://youtu.be/MGL3ukFsU18 -
1820 BCE
Riego's pronunciamento
It was a '' coup d'etat '' but with a difference. In the coup d' etat a person proclams himself as king and just do what he want. In a pronunciamento, a person mantein the king but make him do what he want, which is what the Colonel del Riego did with Ferdinand to restore the constitution. -
1812 BCE
First Spanish Constitution
The Cortes (national assembly) had been elected and set up in Cadiz. This Cortes promulgated an advance ''Liberal'' constitution (La Pepa) which had the following principles: constitutional monarchy, national sovereignty, universal male suffrage, separation of powers and right to privacity, freedom of the press and prohibition of torture (the end of Inquisition). https://youtu.be/YA9FlHLE9ts -
1808 BCE
Abdications of Bayonne
It's the name given to the resignations of Charles and Ferdinand who were given pensions and where they were detained because of Napoleon. https://youtu.be/-K178B9mQOk -
1807 BCE
Treaty of Fontainebleau
Napoleon's project which forced Spain to join an invasion of Portugal, whose ports were still open to British ships. As result, it defined the occupation of Portugal and proposed the division of the country into three kingdoms as a result of the Peninsular War. Map: http://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=YK2VaNam&id=8CD9BF8606C5326BAE64ABDD40739BAB85459006&q=mapa+de+fontainebleu&simid=608041137076699849&selectedIndex=1&ajaxhist=0 -
1805 BCE
Battle of Trafalgar
It was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. https://youtu.be/muxsFSRQgbg Map: http://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=D6%2bzdQHA&id=5AFEBCE47C2638BDEA7A6E45F8D7B2F41179AFE3&q=mapa+de+trafalgar&simid=608011085198001859&selectedIndex=2&ajaxhist=0 -
1804 BCE
Napoleon is crown as emperor
Napoleon was making a name for himself during the revolutionary France. After a number of military victories, he effectively took power declaring himself First Consul in 1799, and Emperor in 1804. https://youtu.be/0aYXetC9VGo -
1796 BCE
Treaty of San Ildefonso
Spain, still fearful of British sea power and colonial ambitions, swung back into the French camp and signed the Treaty of San Ildefonso, in which France and Spain would become allies and combine their forces against the British Empire, but it turn disastrous and British ships blockaded Cadiz and most trade with America was cut off. Map: http://w0.fast-meteo.com/locationmaps/San-Ildefonso-1.12.gif -
1793 BCE
Execution of Louis XVI
Bourbons supporters feared that if Louis XVI fell, the Spanish house would not be far behind, so that his head rolled off the guillotine and the Bourbon France was no more. https://youtu.be/3waf5yMPLwI -
1767 BCE
Jesuists are expelled from Spain
The Bourbons expelled the Jesuits from Spain in order to eliminate their power in education. https://youtu.be/Wpg-K7ySRLI -
1766 BCE
Esquilache riots
It was a popular protest in which the citizens complained about a social reform brought by the Bourbons that prohibited the traditional long capes and wide-brimmed hats because they allowed criminals to conceal their faces. This take place during the reign of Charles III.
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1761 BCE
Third Family Compact
Conflicts after the Treaty of Paris made changes in territories. Spain gainned Louisiana but lost Florida to the British and also got back Havana and Manila meanswhile France lost Quebec to England. -
1753 BCE
Canal de Castilla
It was an agricultural advance made to facilitate irrigation caused by an enormous growth in the 18th century as result of reforms introduced by Philip V and Charles III. It was began to build in 1753 and inaugurated in 1849. -
1743 BCE
Second Family Compact
In support of France's involvement with the Austrian War of Succession, resulted in the installation of Charles' younger brother Philip as duque of Parma and Piancenza in 1748. -
1733 BCE
First Family Compact
It was an alliance signed between France and Spain. Spain recover possessions in Italy, Italy became an obsessive factor in its foreign policy, Spanish trubes recovered Naples and Sicily and Charles III was crowned King of Naples. -
1713 BCE
Treaty of Utrecht
It was an agreement between Britain and France that concluded as part of the series of treaties ending the War of the Spanish Succession. The treaty recognized Queen Anne as the legitimate sovereign of England. France agreed to cede all claims to Newfoundland and to evacuate its base there at Plaisance and began to construct the fortress of Louisbourg and Ile Saint-Jean. Acadia was to pass to Britain. Bibliography: http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/civil_n2/histscript6_n2/span_succ.html -
1713 BCE
Salic Law of Succession
It is an imposed standard or rule in which women were excluded from the line of succesion, which means that if for example the firstborn was a woman they wait until they have a son to make it the king. It was first proposed in 1713 in Spain. -
1707 BCE
New Foundation Decrees
The fueros of Aragon and Valencia were abolished in 1707, those of Catalonia in 1716. From now on Aragon, Valencia and Catalonia were subject to the laws of Castile, under a plan known as the Nueva Planta. In addition, the Catalans had to accept the suppression of their language, although some small concessions were made to allow it in legal and commercial fields. -
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Charles II
He was the last Habsburg ruler of Spain. His realm included Southern Netherlands and Spain's overseas empire, stretching from the Americas to the Spanish East Indies. Known as "the Bewitched" (Spanish: el Hechizado). He died in 1700, childless and heirless, with all potential Habsburg successors having predeceased him. In his will, Charles named as his successor his 16-year-old grand-nephew, Philip, Duke of Anjou. -
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Joseph I
Joseph I was Holy Roman Emperor from 1705 until his death in 1711. He was the eldest son of Emperor Leopold I from his third wife, Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg. 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. -
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War of Spanish Succession
It was a war between Austria and France over which of them would rule Spain and all of Spain's colonies in North and South America. When Charles II of Spain died in 1700 and left no soons Louis XIV's and Austria and England were worried that Louis XIV, the king of France, would tell Philip what to do, and control both France and Spain, and all of Spain's colonies in the New World.
Bibliography:http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/civil_n2/histscript6_n2/span_succ.html -
Period: to
Floridablanca
The Count of Floridablanca was a politician who served as secretary of state between 1777 and 1792 that preside over the Central Supreme Assembly. The Count was the reformist chief minester of King Charles III. He studied in Murcia and Orihuela and later at the University of Salamanca.He became a criminal prosecutor in Castille and was given the task of investigating the Esquilache riots and defended the expulsion of the jesuits. Floridablanca wanted to spred Enlightenment ideas. -
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Jovellanos
He studied at the Universities of Oviedo, Alcalá and Complutense de Madrid. He was a lawyer, writer and politician and he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He wanted to spred the ideas of the Enlightenment to improve economic, social and cultural conditions in Spain. -
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Charles III
Charles III was the King of Spain and the Spanish Indies from 1759 to 1788. While he was the fifth son of Philip V of Spain, he was the eldest son of Philip's second wife, Elisabeth Farnese. He was one of the “enlightened despots” of the 18th century, who helped lead Spain to a brief cultural and economic revival -
Treaty of Paris
It was signed on September 3, 1783 in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. The treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire and the United States AND separate peace treaties between Great Britain and the nations that supported the American cause.
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Period: to
Ferdinand VII
He was known as "the Desired" and as the "Felon King". After being overthrown by Napoleon in 1808 he linked his monarchy to counter-revolution and reactionary policies that produced a deep rift in Spain between his forces and liberalt. He reestablished the absolutist monarchy and rejected the liberal constitution. He suppressed the liberal press and jailed many of its editors and writers. Under his rule,Spain lost nearly all of its American possessions, and the country entered into civil war. -
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Charles IV
Charles IV was the second son of Charles III and his wife, Maria Amalia of Saxony. He was born in Naple 1748, while his father was King of Naples and Sicily. His elder brother, Don Felipe, was passed over for both thrones, due to his learning disabilities and epilepsy.his reing was during 1788 to 1808. -
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War of the Pyrenees
It was the Pyrenean front of the First Coalition's war against the First French Republic. It pitted Revolutionary France against the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal. It wasproduced to protect traditional Spanish values. French military forces penetrate Catalonia, Navarre and Basque provinces in 1794. A oeace treaty signed in 1795 that French retire the Pyrenees and Spain ceded half of Santo Domingo. -
Period: to
Peninsular War
The Napoleonic Wars fought in the Iberian Peninsula, where the French were opposed by British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces. Napoleon’s peninsula struggle contributed considerably to his eventual downfall; but until 1813 the conflict in Spain and Portugal, though costly, exercised only an indirect effect upon the progress of French affairs in central and eastern Europe.
Bibliography: http://aero-comlab.stanford.edu/jameson/world_history/A_Short_History_of_Spain_and_Portugal.pdf -
Period: to
Isabella II
She was Queen of Spain from 1833 until 1868. She came to the throne as an infant, but her succession was disputed by the Carlists, who refused to recognize a female sovereign, leading to the Carlist Wars. She was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1868, and formally abdicated in 1870. . She had the support of two political parties, that favoured a stringer monarchy and wanted to limite royal authority.
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Period: to
First Carlist War
The First Carlist War was a civil war fought between factions over the succession to the throne and the nature of the Spanish monarchy. It was fought between supporters of the regent, Maria Christina, acting for Isabella II of Spain, and those of the late king's brother, Carlos de Borbón (or Carlos V). The Carlists supported return to an absolute monarchy.
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Amadeus of Savoy
The exile of Isabella was followed by years of turmoil, then Amadeous was crowned but he abdicated because both republicans and Carlists rejected him, also the supporters of Alfonso wer also opposed to him. He reign Spain from 1870 to 1873. -
Period: to
Third Carlist War
It was the last Carlist War in Spain. Carlist forces managed to occupy several towns in the interior of Spain. Isabella II had abdicated the throne was not very popular. However, the call for rebellion made by the Carlists was echoed in Catalonia and especially the Basque region. where the Carlists managed to design a temporary state. The Carlists managed to lay siege to Bilbao and San Sebastián, but failed to seize them. After four years of war, they went into exile in France. -
Period: to
First Republic
The first Spanish Reoulic was the short-lived political regime that existed in Spain between the parliamentary proclamation on 11 February 1873 and 29 December 1874 when General Arsenio Martínez-Campos's pronunciamento marked the beginning of the Bourbon Restoration in Spain. -
Period: to
Cuban War
It was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War and the Little War. The final three months of the conflict escalated to become the Spanish–American War, with United States forces being deployed in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippine Islands against Spain.
