Isabella II Queen of Spain

Standard Name: Isabella II,, Queen of Spain

Used Form: Isabella, Queen of Castile

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Matilda Betham-Edwards	She describes here her journey, with a female friend (actually Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon ), to Spain with the particular purpose of seeing the works of Velasquez , and on to North Africa, in the...

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1834-1839

The Carlist Wars were fought in Spain, mounted by challengers to the reign of the infant Isabella II . There were renewed outbreaks of these civil wars in the 1840s and the 1870s.

Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.

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October 1846

Queen Isabella of Spain married her cousin, despite machinations by British and French diplomats to arrange a marriage that would be politically opportune for them.

Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.

78-79

September 1868

Revolution in Spain occurred. Queen Isabella II was subsequently ousted, and the revolutionary party favoured a constitutional government headed by a new sovereign.

Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.

Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.

252

Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.

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