ISABEL II

The reign of Queen Isabel and the Glorious Revolution

INDEXBefore we explain the topic…

The Isabeline period (1833-1868)

I. Regency period (1843-1843)

II. The reign of Isabel II (1843-

1868)

o Isabel’s lovers

The revolutionary period (1869-

1874)

I. The provisional government

II. The democratic monarchy (1871-

1873)

III.The First Republic (1873-1874)

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Regency period

◦ Was queen regnant of Spain from 1833 until 1868. She came to the throne as an infant,

but her succession was disputed by the Carlists, who refused to recognise a female

sovereign, leading to the Carlist Wars. After a troubled reign, she was deposed in

the Glorious Revolution of 1868, and formally abdicated in 1870. Her son Alfonso

XII became king in 1874.

◦ When Isabel was three years old, her father Ferdinand VII died. The government : first

Isabel´s Mother, Maria Christina, and then General Espartero.

◦ This was a period of civil war in Spain known as the first Carlist War. This was ocurred

because of the problem of who should succeed to the throne.

Before we explain this topic…

How many female monarchs have there been in the history of Spain?

Urraca I de Castilla

Berenguela I de Castilla

o Isabel I de Castilla

Juana I de España

Isabel II de España

How this compare with other European countries with monarchies?

Normally the power was owned by the king and only a few queens obtained that power working very hard to get it.

Great queens were: Victoria of England, Elisabeth II of England, Cristina of Sweden.

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The reign of Isabel II (1843-1868)

Isabel was declared of age when she was 13 years old.

When she birth 16 the government marry her to his cousin

"El infante Don Francisco de Asís de Borbón", the duque of

Cádiz. However their marriage wasn't happy at all because

they didn't get on well and she discovered that her husband

was gay. Even so they had ten kids but most of them were

born death or died a couple of days before they were born.

POLITICAL INSTABILITY CONFRONTATION

Moderate Party Progressive Party

CHARACTERISTICS OF HER REIGN

Higher Middle Class Urban Middle Class

LIBERAL IDEOLOGY

In the last years of Isabel's reign…

Centrist party Demanded universal

male suffrage

REPUBLICANSUNIÓN LIBERAL DEMOCRATS

Wanted to abolish the

monarchy

New parties emerged:

Progressive Party, Unión Liberal, Democrats and republicans signed:

PACTO DE OSTENDE

1866

CONSTITUTIONDEPOSE ISABEL AND FORM A PARLIAMENT

Isabel’s lovers

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Sara Martínez

Alejandra Ortega

Leire López

Alejandro Echeita

Alexandra Oprescu