20th C Spain Timeline

Peak absolutist resistence

End of the Carlist was, which marked the end of the threat of absolutism to the liberal state

The first wave of succesful liberal revolutions

Constitution

Liberal revolutions in Paris

Last Spanish troops leave Peru

Ferdinand reversed all of the liberal legislation, abrogated the 1812 Constitutions and tried for the rest of his reign to restore the 1814 status quo (no inquisition, however)

1833 Civil War broker out

The main Carlist forces were defeated

The more Progressive goverment of 1836 drafted a new Constitution in 1837, whcih accepted the two legislative houses, gave more power to the monarch in 1812, and offered only 5% of adult males access to the suffrage

The moderates had their turn to define their stance in the Constitution of 1845, which illuminated both the similarities and the core differences with the Progressives

The civil guard is created

Revolution erupted out of the frustration of those exculeded from this elite drama

Pragmatic Regent María Cristina

Queen Isabel II

Ferdinand VII

The crown either resisted, or undermined the implimentation of the liberal system

The construction of the Liberal State

The restoiration and Demise of the Absolutist State

The Parameters of a Liberal Political, Juridical and Administrative Order

The Liberal State: From Consolidation to Crisis

While the Liberal Union survived for a record five years, it could neither unify the political class nor institute a workable party roatation