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The Second Spanish Republic was the democratic regime that existed in Spain between April 14, 1931, the date of its proclamation, replacing the monarchy of Alfonso XIII. -
The Spanish Constitution of 1931 was approved on December 9, 1931 by the Constituent Cortes, after the Spanish general elections of 1931 that followed the proclamation of the Second Republic, and was in force until the end of the civil war in 1939. -
Some people thought that with the Republic our life would improve. -
All religious denominations will be considered as Associations subject to a special law. The State, the regions, the provinces and the Municipalities will not maintain, favor or financially assist Churches, Associations and religious Institutions. -
The school in republican society was an institution in which those who passed through it were monitored and guarded, in which the social role was selected, or at least legitimized, in which they were indoctrinated and in which they developed skills and abilities. -
The 1932 Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, also known as the Nuria Statute, was a Spanish law passed during the first biennium of the Second Spanish Republic that granted Catalonia for the first time a Statute of Autonomy that allowed it to have a government and a parliament own. -
Thousands of Europeans were giving up trusting democracy and accepting, in a certain way, that only through the fall of the known world could a new one rise again where neither political and moral corruption nor economic crisis existed. -
Women got the right to vote in Spain in 1933 as a result of legal changes made during the Second Spanish Republic. -
On November 19, 1933, in Spain during the Second Republic, general elections were held. With the discredit of the government and after the dissolution of the republican-socialist coalition that had supported the government of Manuel Azaña, the President of the Republic Niceto Alcalá-Zamora decided to dissolve the Cortes elected in June 1931 and call general elections. -
The former president of the Generalitat of Catalonia Lluis Companys imprisoned in the Modelo prison in Madrid after the events of October 6, 1934. -
On October 6, 1934, the Catalan State within the "Spanish Federal Republic" was proclaimed in Barcelona by the president of the Generalidad de Cataluña, Lluís Companys. -
On February 16 and March 1, 1936, the third and last general elections of the Second Spanish Republic were held in Spain. -
The military rebellion of Melilla was the first movement of the coup in Spain in July 1936, which meant the start of the Spanish Civil War.