1823 in Spain
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Events in the year 1823 in Spain.
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Incumbents
- King: Ferdinand VII[1]
- Prime Minister: VÃctor Damián Sáez (starting 19 November)
Events
- January 23 - secret treaty signed at Verona, Italy, allowing French intervention in Spain to restore Ferdinand VII to absolute rule [citation needed]
- January 28 - King Louis XVIII of France announces creation of the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis[citation needed]
- February - French legislature, controlled by Ultra-Royalists vote to support the intervention[citation needed]
- April 6 - French cross the river Bidasoa on the Franco-Spanish border[citation needed]
- April 7 - French troops enter Spain mostly unopposed[2]
- May 24 - French Troops take Madrid[2]
- August 31 - Spanish liberal revolutionaries suffer a major defeat against the French at the Battle of Trocadero[3]
- September 23 - Cadiz falls to the French, ending the liberal revolution and restoring Ferdinand VII to the throne[3]
Births
Deaths
- November 7 - Rafael del Riego, liberal politician, general and revolutionary; executed by Ferdinand VII for leading the liberal revolution against him (b. 1784)[4]