Spanish Second Republic proclaimed
April 14, 1931
After municipal elections showed republican majorities in the big cities, King Alfonso XIII quietly left Spain and a republic was declared in the streets of Madrid to huge crowds singing the Marseillaise. It would be a short, violent, creative, contested five years, ending in civil war and forty years of Franco.
In context
Also in 1931 (5 other events on record)
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.