7 Hª IF YOU COULD CHANGE .(event) IN HISTORY, HOW WOULD LIFE HAD BEEN....?
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The United Provinces and England then approached the Emperor and pledged to grant the succession of Spain to his second son, Archduke Charles of Austria. In September 1701 a coalition was formed and in June 1702 it declared war on France and Spain. -
Philip V, King of Spain, ceded ownership of the Rock of Gibraltar to Queen Anne I of Great Britain. -
King of Spain from 1748 to 1819. Son and successor of Charles III. He pitted Spain against revolutionary France in the Convention War (1794-1795) and was defeated. Under the auspices of his prime minister, Godoy, he radically changed Spanish foreign policy and allied himself with Napoleon's France. -
The French Revolutionary Wars or Coalition Wars were a succession of war and political conflicts between the French revolutionary government and Austria until the signing of the Treaty of Luneville in 1801. -
The Napoleonic Wars, also known as the Coalition Wars, were a series of wars that took place during the reign of Emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte in France. -
The war was caused by Napoleon's conquest of the Spanish nation, taking advantage of its military and political weakness, forcing the Spanish monarchs to abdicate and Napoleon's brother Joseph I was crowned king. -
The Spanish-American Wars of Independence were a series of conflicts between 1808 and 1824 between the former colonial possessions in the Americas that sought independence from the Spanish Empire, pitting the patriots against the royalists. -
Napoleon Bonaparte spent the last years of his life as a deportee on the island from 1815 until his death on 5 May 1821. -
Elizabeth II, whom Pérez Galdós called "she of the sad destinies", was Queen of Spain between 1833 and 1868, when she was dethroned by the so-called "Glorious Revolution". -
His reign consisted mainly of consolidating the monarchy and institutional stability, repairing the damage that the internal struggles of the years of the so-called Revolutionary Sexenio had left behind, earning him the nickname of "the Peacemaker".