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Manuel Godoy
Don Manuel Francisco Domingo de Godoy (di Bassano) y Álvarez de Faria, de los Ríos y Sánchez-Zarzosa, also Manuel de Godoy y Álvarez de Faria de los Ríos Sánchez Zarzosa[1] (May 12, 1767 – October 4/7, 1851), was Prime Minister of Spain from 1792 to 1797 and from 1801 to 1808. He received many titles including Prince of the Peace (Príncipe de la Paz) by which he is widely known. He came to power at a very young age as the favorite of the king and queen. Despite disaster after disaster he used co -
Joseph Bonaparte I
Joseph-Napoleon Bonaparte (7 January 1768 – 28 July 1844) was the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of Naples and Sicily (1806–1808), and later King of Spain (1808–1813, as José I). After the fall of Napoleon, Joseph styled himself Comte de Survilliers. -
Aranjuez
Aranjuez is a town and municipality lying 48 km south of Madrid in the southern part of the autonomous community of the Community of Madrid. It is located at the confluence of the Tagus and Jarama rivers, 48 km from Toledo. It is one of the Royal Estates of the Crown of Spain since Philip II of Spain named it so in 1560. -
Ferdinand VII of Spain
Ferdinand VII (14 October 1784 – 29 September 1833) was twice King of Spain: in 1808 and from 1813 to 1833 – the latter period in dispute with Joseph Bonaparte. He was known as "Ferdinand the Desired" or "The felon king".
Son and successor of Carlos IV and of Maria Luisa of Parma, deposed by work of his(her,your) supporters in the Riot of Aranjuez, few monarches enjoyed so many confidence and initial popularity on the part of the Spanish people(village). Bound to abdicate in Bayonne, prisoner sp -
Carlos Maria Isidro
The Infante Carlos of Spain (29 March 1788 – 10 March 1855) was the second surviving son of King Charles IV of Spain and of his wife, Maria Luisa of Parma. As Carlos V he was the first of the Carlist claimants to the throne of Spain. He is often referred to simply as 'Don Carlos', but should not be confused with Carlos, son of King Philip II of Spain, after whom Verdi's opera is named. -
Maria Cristina Regente
Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (Italian: Maria Cristina Ferdinanda di Borbone, principessa delle Due Sicilie, Spanish: María Cristina de Borbón, princesa de las Dos Sicilias; 27 April 1806 – 22 August 1878) was Queen consort of Spain (1829 to 1833) and Regent of Spain (1833 to 1840). -
Abdication Carlos IV
When King Charles was told that his son Ferdinand was appealing to Napoleon against Godoy, he took the minister's side. When the populace rose at Aranjuez in 1808, the king abdicated on 19 March, in favour of his son,[3] to save the minister who had been taken prisoner. Ferdinand took the throne as Ferdinand VII but was mistrusted by Napoleon, who had stationed 100,000 soldiers in Spain by that time. Charles IV found refuge in France and became a prisoner of Napoleon. The latter, posing as arbi -
Constitution 1812
The Spanish Constitution of 1812 was established on 19 March 1812 by the Cádiz Cortes, that was the first national sovereign assembly (Cortes Generales "General Courts") of Spain,[1] while in refuge from the Peninsular War. This constitution, one of the most liberal of its time, was effectively Spain's first (see Constitutions of Spain), given that the Bayonne Statute issued in 1808 under Joseph Bonaparte never went into effect. It established the principles of universal male suffrage, national -
Canovas
Born in Málaga as the son of Antonio Cánovas García and Juana del Castillo y Estébanez, Cánovas moved to Madrid after the death of his father where he lived with his mother's cousin, the writer Serafín Estébanez Calderón. Although he studied law at the University of Madrid, he showed an early interest in politics and Spanish history. -
Isabel II of Spain
Isabella II (Spanish: Isabel II; 10 October 1830 – 10 April 1904) was queen regnant of Spain from 1833 until 1868. She came to the throne as an infant, but her succession was disputed by the Carlists, who refused to recognise a female sovereign, leading to the Carlist Wars. After a troubled reign, she was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1868, and formally abdicated in 1870. Her son Alfonso XII became king in 1874. -
Martinez Campos
Martínez Campos received a military education and after 1852 served on Spain's general staff (Estado Mayor). Later on, he was named professor in its academy. In 1860, he was sent to Africa, and also took part in the Mexican 1861 campaign against urban rebels under General Juan Prim, in a joint expedition along with France and Britain -
Cabrera
He was an out-standing leading Carlist. Part took in both major expeditions Carlists during the war. In 1847, the raising of the matiners takes place. Already this year, unconnected items had got up in support of the reason Carlist. They were the prefaces of the Second War Carlist. -
Tomás de Zumalacárregui
Zumalacárregui was born at Ormaiztegi in Gipuzkoa, a basque historic province in the Basque Country, on 29 December 1788. His father, Francisco Antonio de Zumalacárregui, was a lawyer who possessed some property, and the son was articled to a solicitor. -
Constitution 1837
The Spanish Constitution of 1837 was the constitution of Spain from 1837 to 1845. Its principal legacy was to restore the most progressive features of the Spanish Constitution of 1812 and to entrench the concepts of constitutionalism, parliamentarism, and separation of powers in Spain. -
Nicolas Salmeron
He was born at Alhama la Seca in the province of Almería, was educated at Granada and became assistant professor of literature and philosophy at Madrid. The last years of the reign of Isabella II were times of growing discontent with her government and with the monarchy. -
Rafael Maroto
Maroto was born in the town of Lorca in the Region of Murcia, Spain, to Margarita Isern, a native of Barcelona, and Rafael Maroto, a native of Zamora. His father was a military captain who held several important positions in civilian life, such as acting as an administrator for the Visitador de Rentas in Lorca.Maroto was baptized in the San Cristóbal parish church, where his baptismal certificate was preserved and later helped biographers clarify details of his family. During his childhood, he -
General O'Donell
O'Donnell was a strong supporter of the Cristinos, and backed the regency of Maria Cristina in the 1830s.[4] When General Baldomero Espartero seized power in 1840, O'Donnell went into exile with Maria Cristina, and was involved in an attempted coup against Espartero in 1841 -
General Prim
Prim was the son of lieutenant colonel Pablo Prim. He entered the free corps known as the volunteers of Isabella II in 1834, and in the course of the Carlist War he rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and had two orders of knighthood conferred upon him. After the pacification of 1839, as a progressist opposed to the dictatorship of General Espartero, he was sent into exile -
Ramon Cabrera
He was born at Tortosa, province of Tarragona, Spain. As his family had in their gift two chaplaincies, young Cabrera was sent to the seminary of Tortosa, where he made himself conspicuous as an unruly pupil, ever mixed up in disturbances and careless in his studies. -
Baldomero Espartero
Espartero was born at Granátula de Calatrava, a village of the province of Ciudad Real. He was the ninth child (two of them were Francisco and Antonia) of Manuel Antonio Fernández-Espartero y Cañadas, a carter, who wanted to make him a priest, and wife Josefa Vicenta Alvarez de Toro y Molina, but the lad at fifteen enlisted in a battalion of students to fight against the armies of Napoleon. -
Alfonso XII
Alfonso was the son of Queen Isabella II of Spain, and allegedly, of her husband and King Consort, Francis, Duke of Cádiz. Alfonso's biological paternity is uncertain: there is speculation that his biological father may have been Enrique Puigmoltó y Mayans (a captain of the guard) -
Amadeo I of Saboya
Prince Amedeo of Savoy was born in Turin, Italy. He was the second son of King Vittorio Emanuele II (King of Piedmont, Savoy, Sardinia and, later, first King of Italy) and of Archduchess Adelaide of Austria. He was styled the Duke of Aosta from birth.In 1867 his father yielded to the entreaties of parliamentary deputy Francisco Cassins -
General Pavía
Pavia entered the Royal Artillery College at Segovia in 1841. He became a lieutenant in 1846, a captain in 1855 and major in 1862. Three years later he joined the staff of General Prim, and took part in the two unsuccessful revolutionary movements concerted by Prim in 1866, and, after two years of exile, in the successful revolution of 1868. -
Maria Cristina regent of Alfonso XIII
Not counting her great-great-great-grandfather Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, the failed Habsburg claimant to the throne of Spain in the War of the Spanish Succession, Maria Christina was the first Habsburger or Habsburg-Lorrainer to be undisputed ruler of Spain since the death of Charles II of Spain in 1700 -
Sagasta
Sagasta was born on July 21, 1825 at Torrecilla en Cameros, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. As a member of the Progresist Party (Spain) while a student at the Engineering School of Madrid in 1848, Sagasta was the only one in the school who refused to sign a letter supporting Queen Isabel II. -
Pablo Iglesias
Iglesias was born to humble parents who called him Paulino. He attended school between the ages of six and nine, when his father, a municipal laborer, died. Pablo, his younger brother, and their mother put their possessions in a small covered cart and walked with it to live in Madrid.
