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Regency of María Christina
It constitutes the first period of the minority age of Isabel II of Spain during which her mother María Cristina de Borbón-Dos Sicilias assumes the functions corresponding to the Crown and has to face the First Carlist War unleashed by the supporters of Carlos María Isidro. -
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Reign of Alfonso XII
He was King of Spain between 1874 and 1885. Son of Queen Elizabeth II and King Consort Francisco de Asís de Borbón, the beginning of his reign ended the First Republic and gave way to the period known as Restoration. After his premature death at age twenty-seven, a victim of tuberculosis, he was succeeded on the throne by his posthumous son, Alfonso XIII, whose minority age was led by the regency of his mother, the widowed queen María Cristina. -
Sandhurst Manifiesto
The Sandhurst Manifesto was a political manifesto signed on December 1, 1874 by the then Prince Alfonso de Borbón (future King Alfonso XII of Spain), while he was in exile. In the document he showed his willingness to become king and supporter of a constitutional monarchy. -
PSOE is founded
Founded in 1879 by Pablo Iglesias Posse, for a hundred years it was defined as a working class, socialist and Marxist party, until the Extraordinary Congress of 1979, in which it abandoned Marxism as an ideological definition. It became one of the two major political parties in Spain, along with the Popular Party, having ruled the country for most of the constitutional regime begun in 1978. -
Bases of Manresa
They are the document presented as a Catalan regional constitution project for a presentation by the Catalan Union before the council of representatives of Catalan associations, gathered in Manresa on March 25 and 27, 1892 on the initiative of the Lliga de Catalunya. The Bases of Manresa are usually considered as the "birth certificate of political Catalanism", at least the conservative one. -
Teatry of Paris(1898)
Signed on December 10, 1898, it ended the Spanish-American war and for him Spain abandoned its demands on Cuba, which declared its independence. The Philippines was officially handed over to the United States for twenty million dollars, and Guam along with Puerto Rico also became US property. -
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Reign of Alfonso XIII
It is the period in the history of Spain in which Alfonso XIII de Borbón reigned, who from the very moment of his birth was already king, since his father Alfonso XII had died five months earlier. During his minority, the head of state was held by his mother María Cristina de Habsburgo-Lorena as regent until he was sixteen years old and began his personal reign that lasted until April 14, 1931. -
Tragic week of 1909
The events that occurred in Barcelona and other cities in Catalonia between July 26 and August 2, 1909 are known as the Tragic Week. The trigger for these events was the decree of the Antonio Maura government to send reserve troops to the Spanish possessions in Morocco, at that time very unstable, the majority of these reservists being the parents of the working classes. The unions called a general strike. -
Disaster of Annual
The Annual Disaster was a serious Spanish military defeat in the Rif War and an important victory for the Rifians commanded by Abd el-Krim. It took place between July 22 and August 9, 1921 near the Moroccan town of Annual. The battle caused the death of around eleven thousand five hundred members of the Spanish army, nine thousand Spaniards and two thousand five hundred rifeños attached to Spain framed in indigenous units. -
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Dicatorship of Primo de Rivera
it was the political regime that existed in Spain from the coup d'etat of the captain general of Catalonia, Miguel Primo de Rivera, on September 13, 1923, until his resignation on January 28, 1930 and its replacement by the "dictablanda" General Berenguer's. It has been considered as "the first authoritative trial of conscious institutionalization of Spanish nationalism" whose instrument was the Army, strongly corporate and militaristic. -
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Second Spanish Republic
It was the democratic regime that existed in Spain between April 14, 1931, date of its proclamation, replacing the monarchy of Alfonso XIII, and April 1, 1939, date of the end of the Civil War, which gave way to the Franco dictatorship. -
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic
The Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, after the deposition of Alfonso XIII, and it lost the Spanish Civil War on 1 April 1939 to the rebel faction that would establish a military dictatorship under the rule of Francisco Franco -
October Revolution
It was a revolutionary strike movement that took place between October 5 and 19, 1934 during the Second Biennium of the Second Spanish Republic of the Second Republic. This movement was encouraged from wide sectors and by important leaders of the PSOE and the UGT. -
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Sapnish Civil War
it was a warlike conflict that was unleashed in Spain after the failure
of the coup d'etat of July 17 and 18, 1936. After the blockade of the Strait and the subsequent airlift that, thanks to the rapid collaboration of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, transferred the rebel troops to peninsular Spain in the last weeks of July, a civil war began that would end on April 1, 1939 with the last part of the war signed by Francisco Franco. -
Bombing of Gerninika
The Guernica bombing was an air attack carried out on the civilian population of this Spanish population on April 26, 1937, during the Spanish civil war, by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Legionary Aviation, which were fighting in favor from the rebel side against the government of the Second Spanish Republic. -
End of the Civil War
Ending almost three years of conflict, the civil war between the republican side and the rebel side, ended on April 1, 1939 with the victory of the national side with General Francisco Franco at the helm. The victory of the rebellious side led, therefore, to the consequent implantation of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
