Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

INDEPENDECE REVOLUTION, image, image, image, image, image, image, image,…

- - - - One of them is that on May 5, 1808, Napoleon imprisoned Carlos IV and his son Fernando VII and forced them to abdicate in his favor. In many Spanish cities Autonomous Juntas were organized that promised to rule until the return of Fernando VII to the throne, but they were dissolved by the French. The Junta of Seville proclaimed itself the Supreme Government of all Spain.
- - - - Guatemala and its provinces formed an independent state, of a federal nature, with the name of United Provinces of Central America, its capital city being Guatemala. This led to a civil war, in which Guatemala could not prevail.
    - - Belonged to the Viceroyalty of New Granada and, therefore, became independent along with Colombia. Of this one separated in 1904, by the direct action of EE. UU, to control the Panama Canal promoted the formation of a separate republic.
  - - - François Dominique Toussaint-Louverture took charge of a slave revolt on the French side of the island of Hispaniola and led it between 1793 and 1802. He faced Spanish, English, and French, until his capture, exile, and death in France.
      - 1803
        
        Jean Jacques Dessalines finally defeated the French troops and, in 1804, declared the independence of Haiti. It was, thus, the second independent country in America, in this case, led by blacks.
        
        1822
        
        Haitian troops subdued the eastern part of the island of Hispaniola, which would regain its independence from Haiti in 1844. But what will be called the Dominican Republic will not achieve independence from Spain until 1865, after a war that left the country devastated.
  - - - José Martí organizes the Cuban Revolutionary Party and seeks out the old leaders of the revolution, unifies the different currents, builds a small army, and lands in Cuba. The US does not want to lose the possibility of seizing the largest island of the Antilles and, in 1898, after the explosion of the battleship Maine in the port of Havana, declared war on Spain.
  - - - When Napoleon invaded Portugal, John VI took refuge in Brazil and later promoted legal reform by declaring Brazil the territorial base of the "Empire of Brazil, Portugal and the Algarve." Thus, Rio de Janeiro becomes the seat of an absolute monarchy like those of Europe, and ceases to be a colony. In 1821, Juan VI returned to Portugal, leaving his son Pedro de Braganza as governor of Brazil, but the following year he proclaimed himself emperor of Brazil.