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...

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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.

October 1846: Queen Isabella of Spain married her cousin,...

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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.

September 1868: Revolution in Spain occurred. Queen Isabella...

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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.

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