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4 SHARED EVENTSFrance

Entangled histories

4 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · ESP LEFT · FRA RIGHT

1. 1779–1783

   The Great Siege of Gibraltar

   During the American Revolutionary War, Spain and France besieged British Gibraltar from June 1779 to February 1783 in an unsuccessful attempt to capture it.

   War & Rupture · from the Spain chronicle · Decline, the Bourbons and the Napoleonic Crisis · REFS 1 — Great Siege of Gibraltar

2. 2 May 1808

   Dos de Mayo uprising

   The people of Madrid rose against the occupying French army; the brutal repression that followed ignited the Peninsular War, Spain's war of independence against Napoleon.

   War & Rupture · from the Spain chronicle · Decline, the Bourbons and the Napoleonic Crisis · REFS 1 — Spain

3. 1810s–1820s

   Loss of the American mainland empire

   Independence movements across Spanish America broke away during and after the Napoleonic crisis, ending Spain's three-century rule over most of the Americas.

   Independence · from the Spain chronicle · Loss of Empire, Republic and Civil War · REFS 1 — Spain

4. 1814

   End of the Peninsular War

   Allied Spanish, British and Portuguese forces expelled the French and restored Spanish independence, but the returning Ferdinand VII reimposed absolute monarchy and revoked the 1812 constitution.

   War & Rupture · from the Spain chronicle · Decline, the Bourbons and the Napoleonic Crisis · REFS 1 — Spain