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Carlos IV
In 1877, the king Carlos III died, leaving the spanish throne to his son, Carlos IV (Bourbon) Carlos IV -
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Reign of Carlos IV
During the absolutist and conservative regin, a big economical, political and social crisis hit Spain. The lack of interest of the king led him to delegate his power to a “prime minister”. -
Floridablanca
Floridablanca was the first prime minister of Carlos IV. To save Spain from liberalism, he isolated Spain from France, rejecting the arrival of new ideologies that could finish the Absolutism. -
French revolution
In 1789, the french revolution started, putting a liberal vision across Europe that the absolute monarchs would have to fight. Revolución Francesa -
Aranda
Aranda was Carlos IV’s second prime minister. He was close to the French moderates, and couldn’t save Louis XVI’s life. -
Godoy
Manuel Godoy was the third and last prime minister, who scalated quickly in the political world because of his affair with the queen, Maria Luisa de Parma. His ideology was the enlightened despotism, and he ended up making some reforming politics. Fernando VII was completely against him, and although at first he denied any relationship with France, Napoleon and Godoy agreed on the trade embargo against England. -
Treaty of Fontainbleau
Napoleon and Godoy, looking at Portugal’s denial of the trade .., decided to make an agreement in which the french army would go to Portugal through Spain, and then they would split the country. Napoleon though, made a plan to install his army in Spain also, and thus win the whole Iberic peninsula -
The riot of Aranjuez
The royal family, seeing the invasion occurring in the north, decided to go to Sevilla in order to be safer, and they made a stop in Aranjuez. That day, a popular riot supported by Fernando VII caused by the public unrest, forced the abdication of Carlos VI and Godoy in Fernando’s favour, but it only lasted for a day. -
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Jose I Bonaparte
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War of Independence
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Abdications of Bayona
Carlos IV and Fernando VII, abdicated in favour of Napoleon in Bayona, after which he ended up giving the Spanish throne to his brother Jose I Bonaparte.This event was one of the explosives of the War of Independence. -
Constitution of 1812
In 1812, the Court of Cadiz publicised the first spanish Constitution, which stablished the basis of liberalism in Spain and was later looked at by other european countries. Constitución 1812 -
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Fernando VII
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The Persian Manifest
The Persian Manifest was a letter to the king Fernando VII to abolish the Constitution and restablish the absolutism in Spain. Manifiesto de los persas -
Colonel Riego’s putsch
In 1820, the colonel Riego took advantage of the popultaion’s misery, and threw a putsch and forced Fernando VII to approve the Constitution of 1812. -
The 100.000 sons of Saint Luis
In 1823, an army called the 100.000 sons of Saint Luis arrived from Europe, reinstalling the absolutism. -
Marriage with María Cristina
After 3 failed marriages and no children who could take his legacy, Fernando VII ended up marrying his niece. -
The pragmatic sanction law
When María Cristina fell pregnant, Fernando VII made the pragmatic sanction law, which broke the Salic law, permitting a female descendant of his to take the crown if he ended up without a son. -
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Death of Fernando VII
Fernando died in 1833, putting the spanish throne on Isabel II’s hands, at the early age of 3 years. Until she could appropriately gobernate at 13 years old, her mother took the regency.
