Isabel II
Transcript of Isabel II
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)
Help video
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.
Castilla
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
HELP VIDEO
Sara Martínez
Alejandra Ortega
Leire López
Alejandro Echeita
Alexandra Oprescu