French Invade Spain
April 7, 1823
Under the banner of the "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis," French troops authorized by the Congress of Verona crossed the Pyrenees to restore Ferdinand VII's absolutism against the liberal Trienio government. Cadiz fell in the autumn; the Spanish constitution of 1812 was once again abolished. Reaction in Europe had one more good year in it.
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Also in 1823 (3 other events on record)
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.