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Royal Statute
The Royal Statute (1833) represented this alliance between respectable upper middle class liberals and the crown.
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First Carlist war
Before Fernando VII died, he named his daughter, queen. Because she was only three years old at the time, her mother, would rule for her. Many Basques wanted his younger brother Carlos to become king instead. The supporters of Carlos began the Carlist Wars.
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Minority of age of Elizabeth II
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Progressive revolts
The response of the progressives was to initiate a series of popular revolts in various cities, in many cases led by the National Guard, which spread throughout the country particularly in Malaga, Zaragoza and Barcelona and which were accompanied by attempts of insurrection. of some military units. -
Confiscation of Mendizábal
The confiscation of Mendizábal was a governmental process of commercialization of lands and goods owned by the Catholic Church and that took place at the end of the first third of the 19th century in Spain, specifically since 1837. -
Progressive constitution
The progressive liberals opposed the regime of the charter granted by the Royal Statute of the regent María Cristina de Borbón because it did not recognize the principle of national sovereignty, so they defended the restoration of the Constitution of 1812 but, like the old exalted of the Liberal Triennium Joaquín María López or Fermín Caballero, proposed its reform because they considered that it was regulatory and that it established a rigid separation of powers. -
Dismantling of the old regime
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Municipalities law
The 1840 law, made by the moderates, insisted on the government's control of local power. This law precipitated the fall of the Governing Queen. Espartero abolished this law, reestablishing that of 1823. González Bravo promulgated a decree in 1843 that restored the moderate law of 1840 and in January of 18411 the regulations that developed the law were published. -
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Barcelona bombing
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Creation of the civil guard
Thus, on March 28, 1844, the historic moment of the official creation of the Civil Guard took place when, by Royal Decree, a “special body of armed forces of Infantry and Cavalry” was created, under the dependence of the Ministry of the Government and with "the denomination of Civil Guards". -
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Constitution of 1845
The Spanish Constitution of 1845 was the supreme norm during the effective reign of Isabel II, which replaced the Constitution of 1837 the supreme norm during her minority. The Constitution of 1845 was in force until the proclamation of the Spanish Constitution of 1869, although there were several attempts to replace it in 1852 and during the progressive biennium (1854-1856). It was the constitutional expression of Spanish doctrinalism. -
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Second Carlist War
In 1846 the war of the Matiners (early risers) broke out, so called because its main war scene was Catalonia, for almost three years. Some authors refuse to call it the Second Carlist War due to this fact, although others, on the other hand, defend it because an attempt was made to expand its theater of operations to the rest of the peninsula. When analyzing the causes of the war we must take into account several facts. -
Creation of the democratic party
It was the political formation that emerged in Spain in April 1849 as a split from the Progressive Party. It demanded the full recognition of citizen rights and individual freedoms, universal suffrage, the confiscation of all Church property, including civil property, and the abolition of fifths. -
Vicalvarada
La Vicalvarada, began as one more military pronouncement among all those produced throughout the nineteenth century, when conspiracies in the highest springs of power were the tool to force the Crown to depose and establish governments. -
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Progressive biennium
The Moderate Decade ends with the Revolution of 1854. The moderate party and the government of the Count of San Luis are worn out. Espartero proposes to the Queen the convocation of new Constituent Courts, and that these be formed only by the Congress of Deputies, to prevent conservative pressure from the Senate. -
Confiscation of Madoz
But the most important confiscation was that of Pascual Madoz, which began in 1855 and lasted practically until the very beginning of the 20th century. The ecclesiastical confiscation was completed and the expropriation of state and municipal assets was undertaken, especially communal lands. -
Railroad law
Law enacted in 1855 to promote the construction of the railway in Spain. This Law conditioned the radial structure of the Spanish railway network and the track gauge, which is different from the European gauge. The first Spanish railway route was inaugurated in 1848 to link Barcelona with Mataró. -
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O’ Donnell
He was the youngest of the two children of the marriage of Carlos O'Donnell and Annethant and Josefa Joris de Casaviella. Known at that time for opening a period of political alternation between O'Donnell's unionists and Narváez's historical moderates, who took turns excluding progressives from power. -
Economic crisis
On May 9, 1866, when a British court officially declared the inability of the banks to recover the debt of the Mid Wales Railway Company, there was a bank panic and a massive withdrawal of deposits. -
San Gil uprising
The revolt at the San Gil artillery barracks was a mutiny against Queen Elizabeth II of Spain that occurred on June 22, 1866 in Madrid under the auspices of the progressive and democratic parties with the intention of overthrowing the monarchy. -
Fall of the kingdom of Elizabeth
It begins in March 1863 with the fall of the government of the Liberal Union of General Leopoldo O'Donnell and ends with the Revolution of 1868 that ended the Monarchy of Elizabeth II who went into exile and opened the new stage of history. contemporary of Spain called Democratic Sexenio in 1868.