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The signing of the US declaration of Independence.
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The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, that convulsed France and, by extension of its implications, other nations of Europe that faced supporters and opponents of the system known as the Old Regime.
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Napoleon Bonaparte forced the abdications of Ferdinand VII and his father Charles IV and then installed his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne and promulgated the Bayonne Constitution. Most Iberians rejected French rule and fought a bloody war to oust them
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Quito was to be the first in the history of Spanish American to proclamon August 10.
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Juntas emerged in Spanish America as a result of Spain facing a political crisis due to the abdication of Ferdinand VII and Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion.
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The War of the Triple Alliance or the Paraguayan War, called by the Paraguayans Guerra Grande, the war against the Triple Alliance or the Guasú War, and by the Brazilians Guerra do Paraguai, was the military conflict in which the Triple Alliance - a coalition formed by the Empire of Brazil, Uruguay, 8 and Argentina9 - fought militarily against Paraguay between 1864 and 1870
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The reaction of the Spaniards led to the polarization of the positions and the creole elites multiplied the proclamation of independence
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Simón Bolívar was named new military leader, and in 1813 he liberated Mérida and Caracas in the so-called Admirable Campaign, cities that gave him the title of "Liberator", united forever to his first name
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Fernando VII ordered to organize the so-called "Peacekeeping expedition" which, under the command of Marshal Pablo Morillo, sailed from Cádiz in 1815.
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Bolívar, Piar, Páez, and other Venezuelan leaders reactivated the war. Bolivar faced and defeated Morillo in Calabozo, in 1818.
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Guatemala with its provinces declared its independence from the Spanish Crown and annexed Mexico to defend itself better from Spain.
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But the Dominican Republic will not achieve independence from Spain until 1865, after a war that left the country devastated.
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The intervention of EE. UU precipitated the Spanish
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Panama belonged to the Viceroyalty of New Granada and became independent along with Colombia. Of this one separated in 1904, by the direct action of EE. UU, to control the Panama Canal promoted the formation of a separate republic
