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1713 |
Treaty of Utrecht concludes the War of the Spanish Succession, a treaty for which Bolingbroke and Ormonde are impeached. |
*Spain |
| Details |
1725 - 1726 |
Treaty of Hanover: France, Prussia, England v. Spain, Austria. |
*France
*Spain |
| Details |
1729 |
Treaty of Seville with Spain. |
*Spain |
| Details |
1733 |
Continental: Alliance between France and Spain called "The Family Compact." |
*France
*Spain |
| Details |
1742 |
England goes to war with Spain, incited by
William Pitt the Elder for the sake of trade. Sir Robert Walpole resigns. Continental War under Carteret: Pitt denounces Carteret's policy as "a
wild waste of England's resources for the despicable [Hanover] electorate." |
*Spain
*Economics
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
Feb 1, 1793 |
French Revolution: France declares war on Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, and Spain. |
*French Revolution
*Spain |
| Details |
1795 |
French Revolution: Peace treaties with Prussia, Holland, and Spain; General Napoleon, working under the Directory government, represses a royalist uprising. |
*Spain
*French Revolution
*France |
| Details |
Mar 27, 1802 |
Treaty of Amiens signed by Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. The "Peace of
Amiens," as it was known, brought a temporary peace of 14 months during the Napoleonic Wars. One of its most important cultural effects was that travel and correspondence across the English Channel became possible again. Many British authors, artists, and politicians visited France during this time. |
*France
*Spain |
| Details |
Dec 12, 1804 |
Spain declares war on Britain. |
*Spain |
| Details |
1807 |
France invades Spain and Portugal. |
*France
*Spain |
| Details |
1808 |
Widespread uprisings in Spain; British troops land in Portugal. |
*Spain |
| Details |
1808 |
Jose Blanco White emigrates to England, seeking asylum from the French invasion and the Spanish Junta. |
*France
*Spain |
| Details |
May 1808 |
Uprisings in Spain. |
*Spain |
| Details |
1809 |
Coronation of Joseph Bonaparte in Madrid, Spain. Wellesley in command in Portugal. |
*Spain |
| Details |
1811 |
Parliament makes slave trading a felony. Spain's revolutionary Cortes debates abolition and receives Cuban objections. Java is captured by the British and the slave trade to that island ends. Sugar prices fall sharply through 1811. |
*Abolition
*Spain
*Colonialism |
| Details |
1813 |
The Battle of Lepzig; Napoleon defeated and in retreat. Wellington victorious in Peninsular
War; Spain liberated. Austria joins the alliance against France. |
*Spain
*France |
| Details |
1814 |
Inquisition re-established in Spain. |
*Spain
*Catholicism |
| Details |
1820 |
Revolts in Spain and Italy against Bourbons. In Madrid, mutiny by troops who refuse to go to South America to oppose revolution. Spanish liberales continue opposition against Bourbons in Spain. Palermo revolts briefly. Naples forms a Republic. Revolution in Portugal. England: dissolution of Parliament. Cato street conspiracy. Throughout Europe, Royalist reactions. |
*France
*Spain |
| Details |
1822 |
Jose Blanco White, Letters from Spain by Leucadio Doblado. |
*Spain |
| Details |
1823 |
France and Spain are at War. |
*France
*Spain |