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Allegorical portrait of Ferdinand VII by Vicente Capilla in 1810. On March 19, 1808, King Charles IV abdicated in favor of his son Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias, under pressure during the Aranjuez uprising orchestrated by the aristocratic faction, or Fernandinos, which also led to the fall of Manuel Godoy, the king's favored minister.
Young Ferdinand as Prince of Asturias, 1800 Silver coin: 8 reales New Spain with a portrait of King Fernando VII, 1810 [3] Silver coin: 8 reales Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata with a portrait of King Fernando VII, 1823 [4] Ferdinand was the eldest surviving son of Charles IV of Spain and Maria Luisa of Parma.
Ferdinand II [b] (10 March 1452 – 23 January 1516), called Ferdinand the Catholic, was King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516. As the husband and co-ruler of Queen Isabella I of Castile , he was also King of Castile from 1475 to 1504 (as Ferdinand V ).
They married on October 19, 1469, in the city of Valladolid; Isabella was 18 years old and Ferdinand a year younger. Most scholars generally accept that the unification of Spain can essentially be traced back to the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella. Their reign was called by W.H. Prescott "the most glorious epoch in the annals of Spain". [3]
The Supreme Junta retreated to Cádiz and dissolved itself in favor of a Regency Council of Spain and the Indies. As news of this arrived throughout Spanish America during the next three weeks to nine months—depending on time it took goods and people to travel from Spain—political fault lines appeared. Royal officials and Spanish Americans ...
The "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis" was the popular name for a French army mobilized in 1823 by the Bourbon King of France, Louis XVIII, to help the Spanish Bourbon royalists restore King Ferdinand VII of Spain to the absolute power of which he had been deprived during the Liberal Triennium. Despite the name, the actual number of troops ...
Ferdinand VII had become king after the victorious end of the Peninsular War, by which Spain defeated Napoleonic France.He returned to Spain on 24 March 1814 and his first act was the abolition of the 1812 liberal constitution; this was followed by the dissolution of the two chambers of the Spanish Parliament on 10 May.
King Ferdinand may refer to: Ferdinand I of Aragon (1380–1416) Ferdinand II of Aragon (1452–1516), also Ferdinand V of Castile and León, Ferdinand "the Catholic", King of Aragon, Sicily ((Trinacria) and in Naples as Ferdinand III), and Navarre, first king of a unified Kingdom of Spain; Ferdinand I of León (died 1065), "the Great"