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Carlos IV
Charles IV (11 November 1748 – 20 January 1819) was King of Spain and the Spanish Empire from 14 December 1788, until 19 March 1808. -
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War with France
The French Revolutionary Wars re-esclated as 1793 began. New powers entered the First Coalition days after the execution of King Louis XVI on 21 January. Spain and Portugal were among these. Then, on 1 February France declared war on Great Britain and the Netherlands. -
Jose Bonaparte
José I Bonaparte, was born in Corte (Córcega) in 1768. First-born son of Carlos María de Bonaparte and Letizia Ramolino and brother of Emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte. On July 7, 1808, José was named King of Spain and the Indies, at the outbreak of the War of Independence. -
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War of Independence
Was the military conflict fought by Spain and Portugal, assisted by the United Kingdom, against the forces of France for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars.
The war on the peninsula lasted until the Sixth Coalition defeated Napoleon in 1814, it was considered one of the first wars of national liberation. -
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Absolutist Restoration
During the War of Independence and after the definitive departure of José I from Madrid, on May 27, 1813, the Cortes met in the capital in October. Shortly after, Napoleon recognized Fernando VII as King of Spain through the Treaty of Valençay. Entering the king on March 22, 1814 in Figueras with the general support of the population and receiving the support of 69 deputies through the call for the restoration of the Spanish monarch that caused the
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Ferdinand VII
Ferdinand VII of Spain, called "El Deseado" (October 14,in 1784-Madrid, September 29, 1833), was King of Spain between March and May 1808 and, after the expulsion of José I Bonaparte and his return to the country , again from May 1814 until his death, except for the brief interval in 1823 in which he was dismissed by the Regency Council. -
Isabella II
Isabel II of Spain, was born in Madrid (October 10, 1830) and died in Paris (April 9, 1904). Was Queen of Spain between 1833 and 1868 thanks to the repeal of the 1713 Succession Regulations. She caused the insurgency of the Infante Carlos María Isidro, brother of Fernando VII and uncle of Isabel II, who, supported by absolutist groups had already tried to proclaim himself king. -
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Liberal State
The liberal State is the one that arises as a result of the Liberal Revolution in substitution of the absolute Monarchy of the Old Regime. It is the political system typical of the beginning of the Contemporary Age, in the new economic and social formation that can be called New Regime or Liberal Regime. Its duration in time can be understood as continuous to the present -
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I Carlist War
It was a civil war that developed in Spain between 1833 and 1840 between the Carlists, supporters of the Infante Carlos María Isidro de Borbón and an absolutist regime, and the Elizabethans or Cristinos, defenders of Isabel II and the regent María Cristina de Borbón, whose government was originally moderate absolutist and ended up becoming liberal to gain popular support. Formerly it was known by Spanish historiography as the Seven Years' War or the first civil war. -
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I Carlist War
It was a civil war that developed in Spain between 1833 and 1840 between the Carlists, supporters of the Infante Carlos María Isidro de Borbón and an absolutist regime, and the Elizabethans or Cristinos, defenders of Isabel II and the regent María Cristina de Borbón, whose government was originally moderate absolutist and ended up becoming liberal to gain popular support. Formerly it was known by Spanish historiography as the Seven Years War or the First Civil War.10 -
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II Carlist War
It was a warlike conflict that took place mainly in Catalonia between September 1846 and May 1849.
It was due to the failure of the attempts to marry Isabel II with the Carlist suitor, Carlos Luis de Borbón, who had been sought by both some moderate Elizabethan sectors and by Carlism. The queen would end up marrying her other cousin Francisco de Asís de Borbón. -
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II Carlist War
It was a warlike conflict that took place mainly in Catalonia between September 1846 and May 1849.
It was due to the failure of attempts to marry Elizabeth II with the Carlist suitor, Carlos Luis de Borbón, who had been so sought after by some moderate Elizabethan sectors -
Democratic Administration
It is known as Democratic Sexenio or Revolutionary Sexenio to the period of contemporary history of Spain that elapsed from the triumph of the revolution of September 1868 until the pronouncement of December 1874, which marked the beginning of the stage known as Bourbon Restoration. -
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Provisional Government
The six-year term is usually divided into three stages: the first, that of the Spanish Provisional Government 1868-187; The Provisional Government of 1868-1871 was the transitory executive that was formed in Spain after the triumph of the Glorious Revolution of 1868, which ended the reign of Isabel II. -
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Reign of Amadeo
The second, the reign of Amadeo from 1871 to 1873; The reign of Amadeo I was the first attempt in the history of Spain to put into practice the form of government of the parliamentary monarchy. Although it ended with a resounding failure since it only lasted two years from January 2, 1871, when he was proclaimed King Amadeo I by the Constituent Courts, on February 10, 1873, when he presented his abdication. -
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First Spanish Republic
The third was the First Spanish Republic, proclaimed after the resignation of the throne of King Amadeo of Savoy in February 1873. It is divided between the period of the Federal Republic, which ended the coup of Pavia in January 1874, and the Unitary Republic, which closes with the pronouncement in December 1874 in Sagunto of General Arsenio Martínez Campos in favor of the restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy in the person of the son of Isabel II, Alfonso XII. -
Bourbon Restoration
The Bourbon Restoration is known as the political stage in the history of Spain developed under a monarchical system that lasted between the end of 1874 (moment of the pronouncement of General Arsenio Martínez Campos that ended the period of the First Spanish Republic) and on April 14 1931 (date of proclamation of the Second Republic). The name alludes to the recovery of the throne by a member of the House of Bourbon, Alfonso XII, after the parenthesis of the Democratic Sexenio. -
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Death Alfonso XII
He was king of Spain between 1874 and 1885. The beginning of his reign put an end to the First Republic and gave way to the period known as the Restoration. After his death at the age of twenty-seven, a victim of tuberculosis, he was succeeded to the throne by his son Alfonso XIII, whose minority was headed by the regency of his mother, the widowed queen María Cristina. -
Death Alfonso XII
He was king of Spain between 1874 and 1885. The beginning of his reign put an end to the First Republic and gave way to the period known as the Restoration. After his death at the age of twenty-seven, a victim of tuberculosis, he was succeeded to the throne by his son Alfonso XIII, whose minority was headed by the regency of his mother, the widowed queen María Cristina.
