-
was the military conflict fought by Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal against the invading and occupying forces of France for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence.The war began when the French and Spanish armies invaded and occupied Portugal in 1807 by transiting through Spain, and it escalated in 1808 after Napoleonic France had occupied Spain, which had been its ally. -
The Abdications of Bayonne took place on 7 May 1808 in the castle of Marracq in Bayonne when the French emperor Napoleon I forced two Spanish kings—Charles IV and his son, Ferdinand VII—to renounce the throne in his favour. The move was Napoleon's response to the Tumult of Aranjuez (17–19 March), when Ferdinand VII forced his father's first abdication, and the uprising of 2 May against French troops in Spain (present in accordance with the Treaty of Fontainebleau). -
-
-
-
was the first Constitution of Spain and one of the earliest constitutions in world history. The Constitution was ratified on 19 March 1812 by the Cortes of Cádiz, the first Spanish legislature that included delegates from the entire nation, including Spanish America and the Philippines. "It defined Spanish and Spanish American liberalism for the early 19th century." https://youtu.be/O74lqDTVRBc -
-
The Treaty of Valençay (11 December 1813), after the château of the same name belonging to former French foreign minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, was drafted by Antoine René Mathurin and José Miguel de Carvajal y Manrique on behalf of the French Empire and the Spanish Crown respectively. -
The captive king, now free, entered Spain on March 22, 1814 through Figueras, 4 and now as an effective king, he promised to restore the traditional courts and rule without despotism. Fernando receives the general support of the population and the support of 69 deputies of the Cortes, through the so-called Manifesto of the Persians, which is presented to the king on April 16 in Valencia, and with this support, he proclaims himself absolute king. https://youtu.be/FC19rWLff1w -
is a period of three years in the modern history of Spain between 1820 and 1823, when a liberal government ruled Spain after a military uprising in January 1820 by the lieutenant-colonel Rafael de Riego against the absolutist rule of Ferdinand VII. https://youtu.be/JJD8Qb4hBqk -
On January 1, 1820, the military pronouncement of Colonel Rafael del Riego took place in the Sevillian town of Las Cabezas de San Juan, who had received command of the 2nd Battalion of Asturias, as part of an expeditionary army in charge of quelling the actions of the insurgents in the colonies of America, which would be led by the count of Calderón. Riego immediately proclaimed the restoration of the Cadiz Constitution and the reestablishment of constitutional authorities. -
was the popular name for a French army mobilized in 1823 by the Bourbon King of France, Louis XVIII, to help the Spanish Royalists restore King Ferdinand VII of Spain to the absolute power of which he had been deprived during the Liberal Triennium. Despite the name, the actual number of troops was around 60,000. -
-
she was Queen of Spain between 1833 and 1868,3 thanks to the repeal of the 1713 Succession Regulations (commonly called the "Salic Law" although, technically, it was not) b through the Pragmatic Sanction of 1830. This led to the insurgency of the infant Carlos María Isidro, brother of Fernando VII and uncle of Isabel II, who, supported by the absolutist groups had already tried to proclaim himself king during Fernando's death throes. https://youtu.be/qi7ur4KUzJg -
it is the one that prohibited a woman from inheriting the throne of France, and even that she could transmit her rights to the throne to their male descendants. However, the Spanish Monarchy
is currently applied, which places women behind their brothers for succession to the throne males, even though they are younger. -
