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The Riots of Aranjuez.
Fernando VII started the Riots of Aranjuez when he found out that Godoy moved the court to Aranjuez to escape from the country because of the French troops, Godoy was captured and Charles IV abdicated in favour of his son to free Godoy. -
Ferdinand VII in France.
Ferdinand VII crossed the border of France and Napoleon sent him into an exile of 6 years. -
The Abdications of Bayona.
Napoleon didn't authorized the arrival of Godoy because he didn't want him to advise the royal family. He asked Ferdinand to recognise his father as the King so Charles IV could give the crown to Napoleon in exchange of asylum and richness -
The Treaty of Valençay
Napoleon recognised Ferdinand as King of Spain and gave him the throne of Spain and all the territories. In exchange, he asked Ferdinande to kick out the country the British, to stay neutral in the war and to forgive the partidaries of Joseph I. -
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The reign of Ferdinand VII without Constitution.
Ferdinand VII tried to make a strong government but he failed. Then, he chased and jailed the "afrancesados" and the liberals. Then, He closed the liberal press, the universities, restablished the guuld system and gave power to church. Later on, an army who was destinated to America, rose up led by Rafael de Riego. The government sofocated the issue but a rebellion extended from Galicia to the all country forced Ferdinand to accept the Constitution -
Ferdinand VII is proclaimed King.
The Cortes of Castilla recognise Ferdinand as the legitimal King and he entered the throne. Later on, the Constitution of 1812 was consolidated and the Cortes of Cádiz recognised Ferdinand as the monarch. The spanish territories in America started to proclaim independence from Spain. -
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The Liberal Triennium
The king Ferdinand seemed to accept this new constitutional regime but in secret he conspirated against it. So, in july of 1822, The Royal Guard rebelled because they wanted to restore absolutism. This rebellion was sofocated by the Urban Militia of Madrid. Later on, -
The intervention of The Holy Alliance
The absolute monarchy was restablished because of the intervention of a French army called "The One Hundred Sons of Saint Louis", under the supervision of the Holy Alliance.
In this year, the Ominous Decade started. During this year, some press and universities were closed due to the idea of controlling people's political ideals and suppressed the liberals. During this years many of the Spanish colonies started to ask for independence and fought for it, for example Santo Domingo. -
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The Ominous Decade
This decade, Spain was absolutist. It had important changes, like the lost of big part of the Spanish Empire because of the rebellion of the territories like Mexico. Spain only had some islands like Cuba and Puerto Rico, The Filipines, The Marianas and the Carolinas. -
The beginning of the Ominous Decade
They eliminated all the political changes made during the liberal Triennium and restored the traditional privileges, except the Inquisition. They emitted a law that forbid the association between frenchmasons and other secret associations because they thought that they were a problem for the regime.
At the same time, some absolutists instigated by the clergy and the followers of Carlos Maria Isidro (Fernando's brother and his possible successor), raised up. -
The Succesion Changes
Ferdinand VII promulgated the Pragmatic Sanction, it stablished that if a king dies without a male heir, his crown will go to his elder daughter.
This left his brother Charles with no chances to get the throne. Past little time he had a daughter, Isabel II, who was recognised as his successor. -
The king is ill.
When the king was ill, some supporters of his brother convinced him to sign a degree abolishing the Pragmatic Sanction, but when he got better he declared it in force again, so Carlos Maria leaved to Portugal.
During this time, his wife, which was the one who ruled while he was ill (because her daughter Isabelle II was only 3 years old) told the exiled liberals to came back to the country because she wanted to restablish liberalism -
The king is dead. The first Carlist War
Ferdinand VII died without male heir but he had another daughter called Louise. So, hos brother Charles came back form Portugal and he joined other people who thought that he was the real inheritor of the crown. The rose up against the regime and the First Carlist War started