Restoration bourbonienne in Spain

This article is devoted to the period of the second restoration of the Bourbons in Spain.

Datation: December 29th 1874 - April 14th 1931

As of 1874, the Bourbons are restored in the person of Alphonse XII, wire of Isabelle II, and a Constitutional monarchy (1876) stable settles. But the agrarian crisis, the industrial backwardness, the claims autonmists of Catalonia, the strikes and the Anarchisme shake the country. Under Alphonse XIII, Spain launches out in the Guerre Spanish-American against the the United States of America and loses Cuba, Filipino Puerto Rico and the in 1898.

Neutral during the First World War, Spain is highly touched by the Spanish Grippe. The government must face a general strike in 1917. The general Miguel Primo de Rivera asserts himself like Prime Minister after the coup d'etat of September 13rd, 1923. He takes measure radical which institutes a dictatorship. He engages also a series of great work to modernize the country. But its authoritarianism, the economic crisis of 1929 and the persistence of the agrarian problem are right of him: it is exiled in 1930, followed by the king in 1931. The Second Republic Spanish is proclaimed.

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First restoration of the Bourbons in Spain

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