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SECOND REPUBLIC AND CIVIL WAR
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The municipal elections of April 12, 1931 in Madrid represent a great triumph of the Republican-Socialist, obtaining 69.2% of votos20 (88,758 votes to 33,939 for the conjunction and the monarchists), which resulted in 15 councilors Socialists and 15 ... |
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ROMANTICISM (XIX CENTURY) AND RESTORATION
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The Revolutionary War, despite the death throes of the absolutist reign of Fernando VII, gave birth to a new country with a liberal and bourgeois character, open to influences coming from the rest of Europe. Madrid, the capital of Spain, experience l... |
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INDEPENDENCE WAR
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On October 27, 1807, Carlos IV and Napoleon signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau, which allowed French troops passing through Spanish territory to join Spanish troops and invade Portugal, which had refused to obey the order to block international again... |
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BOURBON AND ILLUSTRATION
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On the death of Charles II, broke the Spanish Succession War, in which Madrid supported from the beginning to Philip of Anjou as Philip V. While the city was occupied in 1706 by the Anglo-Portuguese army, who proclaimed king of the Archduke Charles o... |
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BAROQUE
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In 1601, Philip III, on the advice of his minister, the Duke of Lerma, ordered the relocation of the court to Valladolid, where he stayed five years, bringing back to Madrid in 1606. After this return, Felipe III makes some decisions that would be si... |
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THE CAPITAL AND THE HABSBURGS
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After quelling the revolt commoner, Carlos I in Madrid is generous and gives the titles of Coronado and Imperial, began the transformation of the old Arab fortress. When Francis I of France was captured in the battle of Pavia, the place of his captiv... |
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COMMUNITIES
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Communities:During 1520, the discomfort of the Castilian cities against Charles I is increased. In the courts of first convened in Santiago de Compostela and then in La Coruna, several cities, including Madrid is, refusing to rate the services that t... |
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CHRISTIAN CONQUEST
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The city is repopulated with Christians, without thereby expel its population was Jewish and Muslim (although some Muslim religious buildings are requisitioned, in this way, the mosque becomes a church under the patronage of Santa María).In this very... |
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PREHISTORIC AND ROMAN
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Prehistoric and Roman:There Quaternary archaeological findings prove the existence of human population in the river terraces Manzanares, Jarama and Henares from the Paleolithic. Many of these places are known since the nineteenth century and are curr... |
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PALEONTOLOGY
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The city of Madrid has rich paleontological long before the appearance of human beings: in the middle Miocene, about 18 million years, which houses the Toledo Bridge fauna inhabited a warm, dry climate, highlighting the abundance of a type of hornles... |
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