17 Facts About Mid-19th-century Spain

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Mid-19th-century Spain in the 19th century was a country in turmoil.

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The French forces took control of southern Mid-19th-century Spain, and forced the Spanish government to retreat to Cadiz and remained under siege by the French from 5 February 1810 to 24 August 1812 but was never captured .

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Liberals in Mid-19th-century Spain felt betrayed by the king who they had decided to support, and many of the local juntas that had pronounced against the rule of Joseph Bonaparte lost confidence in the king's rule.

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Mid-19th-century Spain was married four times in his life, and bore two daughters in all his marriages; the succession law of Philip V of Spain, which still stood in Ferdinand's time, excluded women from the succession.

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Carlos – who disputed the legality of Ferdinand's ability to change the fundamental law of succession in Mid-19th-century Spain – left the country for Portugal, where he became a guest of Dom Miguel, the absolutist pretender in that country's civil war.

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Mid-19th-century Spain was succeeded by his daughter Isabella under the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction, and his wife, Maria Christina, became regent for her daughter, who at that time was only three years of age.

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The British alliance with Mid-19th-century Spain had moved most of the Latin American colonies out of the Spanish economic sphere and into the British sphere, with whom extensive trade relations were developed.

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8.

The coup in Mid-19th-century Spain did not change the centralized policies of the government of Trieno Liberal in Madrid and many Mexicans were disappointed.

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The liberal government of Mid-19th-century Spain showed less interest in the military reconquest of the colonies than Ferdinand, although it rejected the independence of Mexico in the failed Treaty of Cordoba.

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10.

Mid-19th-century Spain's was forced to name the progressista hero of the Carlist War, General Espartero, president of the government.

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11.

Mid-19th-century Spain declared Spain to be in a state of siege and dismantled a number of institutions that had been set up by the progressista movement such as elected city councils.

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12.

In spite of Bravo and Narvaez's efforts to suppress the unrest in Mid-19th-century Spain, which included lingering Carlist sentiments and progressista supporters of the old Espartero government, Mid-19th-century Spain's situation remained uneasy.

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The Second Carlist War, though contemporaneous with the revolutions of 1848, is rarely included as part of the same phenomenon, since the rebels in Mid-19th-century Spain were not fighting for liberal or socialist ideas, but rather conservative and even absolutist ones.

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14.

Mid-19th-century Spain surrounded himself with technocrats who attempted to take an active role in the advancement of the Spanish economy.

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15.

Murillo, facing the issue of anti-clericalism, signed a concordat with the Vatican on the issue of religion in Mid-19th-century Spain; it was conclusively decided that Roman Catholicism remained the state religion of Mid-19th-century Spain, but that the contribution of the church in education would be regulated by the state.

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Mid-19th-century Spain too proved unable to work with the government in any meaningful way; he attempted to compromise Espartero's constitution with the 1845 document by, in a bald assertion of power, declaring the 1845 constitution restored with certain specified exceptions, with or without the approval of the cortes.

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For example, eastern Mid-19th-century Spain was unable to import inexpensive Italian wheat, and had to rely on expensive homegrown products carted in over poor roads.

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