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At the end of the War of Succesion in 1714, Philip V, from the Bourbon dynasty, implemented a series of reforms to recover the power of the Empire; he sought to centralize power in the monarch and to make a more efficent collection of taxes and tributes.
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Reforms were first established in the Iberian Peninsula and later, during the mid-eighteenth century. They were first applied in New Spain and consolidated during yhe reign ok King Charles III from 1759 to 1788
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In 1808, Napoleon's troops, under the command of José Bonaparte, entered Spain, putting King Charles IV in an untenable situation, Napoleon Bonaparte, forced him to leave the throne to his brother at an event called "abdcation of Bayonne".
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