Spain defeated in war by the USA; they lost Cuba, Puerto Rica and all their Pacific colonies (it was the end of the Spanish empire).
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25th of July - 2nd of August 1909
La Semaine Tragica (a week of disturbances and rioting in Barcelona, the Catalan capital, which led to the armed forces firing on the demonstrators killing 175 civilians)
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1910
Founding of the *** (a Spanish confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labour unions)
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1921
Spanish forces defeated at the battle of Annual against the Rif tribesmen in Morocco. 10,000 Spanish troops were killed & 4000 taken prisoner.
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13th of September 1923
Primo de Rivera rise to power
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January 1930
Primo de Rivera's resignation (he died 2 months later in Paris)
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17th of August 1930
Sans Sebastian Pact (to form a revolutionary committee against Alfonso XIII; this committee later became the first provisional government of the second republic).
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12th April 1931
Formation of the Provisional Government
10 of 30
14th of April 1931
Alfonso XIII leaves Spain
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April 1931
Law of Municipal Boundaries (this required landowners to offer jobs to those living within their municipality before importing migrant workers).
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April - June 1931
First land, employment and army reforms introduced. One army reform was to transfer officers to the reserve list with full pay- 8,000 officers took this offer.
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May 1931
Cardinal Segura's letter (Cardinal Segura was the leader of the Spanish Roman Catholics), in this letter he urged Catholics to vote against the government parties in the up-coming elections. There was a lot of negative reaction to this.
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June 1931
First elections for constituent Cortes
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June 1931 (part 2)
Closing of the military academy @ Saragossa (this was where Francis Franco worked at the time)
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6th July 1931
Suppression of the telephone workers strike (resulted in 30 dead)
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14th of October 1931
Alcala Zamora resigns as Prime Minister (in protest to the church reforms)
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October 1931
Manuel Azana becomes PM
19 of 30
December 1931
The Constituation is agreed
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December 1931
Incident @ Castilblanco (the village was on strike during the last days of December, a group of the Civil Guard were sent to restore order & one of them opened fire killing a local man; led to the peasants of the village killing four civil guards)
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January 1932
Jesuits expelled from Spain
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January 1932
Incident @ Arneo
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August 1932
General Sanjuro's attempted coup (failed because the government knew about it, Sanjuro was arrested).
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September 1932
Agrarian Reform Law
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September 1932
Catalan Statue (gave the Catalan region independence from Spain).
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January 1933
Casas Viejas (Civil Guards attack Casas Viejas-this resulted in 22 villagers dead and in 3 members of the security forces dead). The socialists walk out of the government.
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February 1933
Formation of CEDA (led by Gil Robles, they were the 'reactionary right'; CEDA was the union of right-wing groups but weren't trusted by Zamora).
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Autumn 1933
President Zamora dismisses the government
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November 1933
Fresh elections to the Cortes
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Founding of the UGT (a socialist trade union)
Back
1888
Card 3
Front
Spain defeated in war by the USA; they lost Cuba, Puerto Rica and all their Pacific colonies (it was the end of the Spanish empire).
Back
Card 4
Front
La Semaine Tragica (a week of disturbances and rioting in Barcelona, the Catalan capital, which led to the armed forces firing on the demonstrators killing 175 civilians)
Back
Card 5
Front
Founding of the *** (a Spanish confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labour unions)
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