SPAIN: THE END OF ABSOLUTISM
SPAIN: THE END OF ABSOLUTISM
1788
Louis XVI of France
imprisoned
put on trial
Carlos IV’s reign began
1799
Godoy
alliances with France
Family Compacts tradition
joined
Spanish fleet
Franch fleet
Battle of Trafalgar
Great Britain won
2 years later
Treaty of Fontainebleau
Fernando
Revolt of Aranjuez
against his father
demanding he abdicated
Carlos IV
abdicate in favour of his son
Napoleon's plan
troops to occupy Spain too
summoned the Spanish royal family
Napoleon named José monarch of Spain
not city's support
2 May 1808
Madrid rebelled
French troops
THE PENINSULAR WAR
Juntas de defensa
organise the Peninsular War
A Junta Central
took over the government
French army
powerful
invincible
A Junta Central
alliance Great Britain
French dominance of the territory
FROM THE CONSTITUTION TO THE RETURN TO ABSOLUTISM
Spanish army’s first defeats
guerrillas
surprise attacks to French army
victory over the French
1812
Junta Central
hold elections
people’s representatives
Cortes Generales
write a constitution
19 March 1812
elected deputies
approved the Constitution
maintained elements
monarchy
Catholic religion
CONSTITUTION OF 1812
Separation of powers
universal manhood suffrage
Sovereignty
Cortes de Cádiz
depends on nation
laws to modernise Spain
1814
Fernando VII
returned to Spain
his father dead
warm welcome
liberals were persecuted and exiled
