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The marriage of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, the Catholic Monarchs. Prepared the two kingdoms and marked the period of success for Spain
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Cristopher Columbus discovers America
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Spanish conquered the Canary islands and Kingdom of Naples join the kingdom
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Spanish Empire became the worlds power source for politics
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Joseph Bonaparte took the Spanish throne, following the Napoleonic invasion,
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The brief reign of Amadeo of Savoy ended with his abdication, and the First Republic was proclaimed.
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Alfonso XII became King of Spain, succeeded by his son in 1886
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Monarchy was defeated and the size of Republican's vote became enormous in Madrid and Barcelona
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General Franco took over as Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. The Spanish State embarked on a period of forty years' dictatorship, during which the political life of the country was characterized by the illegality of all the political parties with the exception of the National Movement
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Franco died in 1975, bringing to an end a period of Spanish history and opening the way to the restoration of the monarchy with the rise to the Throne of the present King of Spain, Juan Carlos.
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The young monarch soon established himself as a resolute motor for change to a western-style democracy by means of a cautious process of political reform which took as its starting point the Francoist legal structure. Adolfo Suarez, the prime minister of the second Monarchy Government.
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The regions of Catalonia, the Basque Country, Galicia and Andalusia approved statutes for their own self-government and elected their respective parliaments. In January 1981, the prime minister, Adolfo Suarez, resigned and was succeeded by Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo. On August 27th, 1982, Calvo-Sotelo presented to the King a decree for the dissolution of Parliament and the calling of a general election to be held on October 28th.
