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France and Spain sign the Treaty of Fontainebleau, which invade Portugal and agree to divide the country into three kingdoms. It allows the passage of French troops on Spanish territory.
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King Carlos IV abdicated in his son Fernando VII, which is then forced by Napoleon to return the crown to his father to give to Joseph Bonaparte
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Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, was appointed king of Spain.
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The French army is defeated at the Battle of Vitoria by the Anglo-Portuguese troops. French soldiers fleeing in disarray and some shelter in San Sebastián.
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French General Emmanuel Rey is appointed governor of the place. Allied troops besieging San Sebastián, leaving isolated.
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French General Emmanuel Rey orders leaving the city all those people that are not necessary for the defense of the place. Half the population is evacuated.
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Gipuzkoa battalions appear at the top of San Bartolomé. The French in response to his fire burned San Martin and Santa Catalina neighborhood
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French General Rey offers a new deadline for the civilian population to leave the city, so that his soldiers were available thus the largest possible room for maneuver within the walls.
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Begins the naval allied blockade against the city.
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Gipuzcoanos soldiers occupying the top of Aiete are replaced by British and Portuguese soldiers.
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Allied batteries opened a breach in the wall between the Horn and Amezketa cubes and other smaller gap between Amezketa and San Telmo.
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First Anglo-Portuguese allied assault on the city.
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Neighbors of San Sebastian head to Wellington to ask him to intercede for the civilians who are isolated in the walled city.
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Arrive at the port of Pasajes English ships with artillery and starts the second Allied assault.
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An accidental fire in a tinderbox sowing chaos among the French troops and the Allies managed to enter the walled city through a gap. Burning and looting in the city. The French take refuge in Urgull, which is bombarded until the French capitulation on 8 September.
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Just eight days after the August 31 British and Portuguese troops torched, ransacked and ultimately destroy San Sebastian, Donostia group met in Zubieta with determination: rebuild the city and overcome the consequences of many years of occupation, wars, assaults, violence and destruction.
It constitutes a new town hall and decided to rebuild the city. -
Begins the declaration of 79 neighbors at the request of the trial judge in the city to clarify what happened.
