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Carlos IV king of Spain
Carlos came to the throne shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution, and its lack of character made to delegate the government of his reign in the hands of his wife Maria Luisa of Parma and one of CarlosIV´s most important ministers, Manuel Godoy His reign coincided with the Napoleonic Empire, as well as other events -
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Napoleon´s occupation
Godoy was one of the most important ministers of Carlos IV. He supported Napoleon in the war against Great Britain -
Battle of Trafalgar
Initiated by Britain, Austria, Russia, Naples and Sweden to try to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte's imperial throne and dissolve the existing French military influence in Europe.
It is considered one of the most important events in 19th century.
French and Spanish forces were defeated by the British Today Trafalgar Square is a square in central London (UK), built to commemorate this victory. -
Treaty of Fontainebleau
Spain signed this treaty with France. It led French troopspass through Spain on their way to Portugal.
at the same time Portugal was alied with Great Britain -
Spanish War of independece
Days before the King of Spain abdicates occurred in Madrid the "Dos de Mayo Uprising", showing how the Spanish people rejected the imperial troops of Napoleon, beginning the War of Spanish Independence. -
Spanish crown to Bayonne
Napoleon forced the King Carlos IV and his son Fernando to abdicate the throne in his favor and sent them to Bayonne. -
Jose Bonaparte
Napoleon gives his brother Jose Bonaparte the Spanish throne to rule Spain with the Name Pepe Botella*...I mean Jose I -
Battle of Bailen
It took place on July 19, 1808 near the town of Bailen Jaen. It faced a French army of about 21,000 soldiers under General Dupont against the Spanish (about 27 000) under the command of General Brown. -
Central committee was constructed
The Provincial Committees felt from the beginning the need for coordination. A Central committie was constructed. It assumed full sovereign powers and was established as the highest governing body because of the absence of the legitimate king, -
Cortes of Cadiz
The holding of elections in war led to the Cortes with a preponderance of bourgeois elements and cults from commercial coastal towns to meet.Cortes sessions began in September 1810 and soon faced two groups of deputies were formed: Liberals: supporters of revolutionary reforms, based on the principles of the French Revolution. Absolutist or "servile" supporters of maintaining the old regime (absolute monarchy, estate society, mercantilist economy). -
Constitucion
The Constitution of Cadiz, adopted on March 19, 1812, feast of St. Joseph, known as Pepa twas the first Spanish Constitution itself, as the Statute of Bayonne of 1808 was a "Letter issued" marked by the Napoleonic. stamp. It estabilished the following principles:
-Constitutional monarchy as the form of government
-popular sovereingty with limited male suffrage
-Catholicism as the state religion
- the separation of powers into 3 branches:
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French defeated
During the war, was remarkable so-called "guerrilla warfare", slowly defeating the army of the Emperor. It is also significant British support led by the Duke of Wellington (maximum seems to be "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"), which contributed to the French defeat.
