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Spanish Civil War, a large collection of articles on the civil war and social revolution at libcom.org. The Spanish Revolution (1936), a huge collection on the Spanish Civil War from an anarchist perspective. The Spanish Civil War: Anarchism in Action, an essay on Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War, hosted on the Pierre J. Proudhon memorial server.
Also during this period, Spain joined the European Economic Community, and a referendum (as promised by PSOE) was called on Spain remaining in NATO on 12 March 1986. This time, however, the socialists campaigned in favour of NATO, the parties to the left of PSOE campaigned against NATO, and the right, led by Manuel Fraga, campaigned for ...
1848: The Revolutions of 1848 were a wave of failed liberal and republican revolutions that swept through Europe. The French Revolution of 1848 led to the creation of the French Second Republic. The Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states. The Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. The Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire
To an initial success of the Spanish army led by General Castaños, who managed to defeat and capture in the battle of Bailén (July 19, 1808) a French army corps, in what constituted the first great land defeat of the Napoleonic Wars, the Emperor himself responded with his physical presence in the Peninsula, and a massive occupation of the ...
Francisco Franco Bahamonde [f] [g] (born Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming ...
Philip's European and North African dominions as of 1580: 1581: 26 July: Dutch Republic, the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, declared their independence against Spanish rule. 1585: Anglo–Spanish War (1585): The war began. It was an intermittent conflict 1588: 8 August: The Spanish Armada was defeated in the English Channel. 1589
The "counter-revolution" began as early as March 9, 1820, when Ferdinand VII swore allegiance to the Constitution of 1812 for the first time. The king himself led the counter-revolutionary efforts, as he never accepted the constitutional regime. Although he never outright broke with it, he conspired from the very beginning to overthrow it.
Thus, the war broke out and Archduke Charles was proclaimed king of Spain, as Charles III, opposite to Philip V. [3] Charles renounced his claims to the Spanish throne in the Treaty of Rastatt of 1714, but was allowed the continued use of the styles of a Spanish monarch for his lifetime. Philip ascended the Spanish throne but forever renounced ...