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The war also had a significant impact on the construction program of the Spanish Navy. The second and third España-class battleships, built in Spain between 1910 and 1919, were delayed significantly because of material shortages from Britain. [18] Most importantly, the main battery guns for Jaime I did not arrive until 1919, after the war had ...
The Crisis of 1917 is the name that Spanish historians have given to the series of events that took place in the summer of 1917 in Spain.In particular, three simultaneous challenges threatened the government and the system of the Restoration: a military movement (the Juntas de Defensa), a political movement (the Parliamentary Assembly, organized by the Regionalist League of Catalonia in ...
The capture of Rheinfelden (1633). The Spanish empire was one of the most powerful in the world and one of largest in history.. The military history of Spain, from the period of the Carthaginian conquests over the Phoenicians to the former Afghan War spans a period of more than 2200 years, and includes the history of battles fought in the territory of modern Spain, as well as her former and ...
Mudéjar revolt of 1264–1266: Nuño González de Lara, head of the Castilian garrison at Jerez de la Frontera, fled his post. The Alcázar of Jerez de la Frontera was taken. 9 October: Mudéjar revolt of 1264–1266: Castilian forces retook Jerez de la Frontera. 1265: 28 August: The Siete Partidas, a code of law, was completed in Castile. October
Revolt suppressed Sulayman al-Arabi search for an alliance with Charlemagne at the Diet in Paderborn; Death of Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Siqlabi, leader of the revolt; End of Abbasids' efforts to assert their rule in Al-Andalus and end of Fihrids prominence; Husayn of Zaragoza accepts a truce. Charlemagne's campaign in the Iberian Peninsula ...
The Arab Revolt in Hejaz begins. Naval: HMS Hampshire is sunk off the Orkney Islands; Lord Kitchener dies. June 8 Naval: In the Adriatic Sea the Italian troopship SS Principe Umberto is sunk by an Austro-Hungarian submarine. It is the deadliest sinking of the war, with 1,900 lives lost. June 10 Politics
It was infamous for the nature of the fight that developed there; after almost a full year of inconclusive fighting, the front had become a giant trench line stretching from one end of Europe to the other. [1] 1914. Battle of Liège; A diagram of the fortifications surrounding the city
The government program presented by Pi y Margall to the Cortes was based on the need to end the Third Carlist War, separate Church and State, abolish slavery and pass reforms in favor of working women and children. [18] It also included the return of communal property to the people through a law that modified confiscation, but the law was not ...