REGENCY OF GENERAL ESPARTERO

Galicia Alive

The Moderate Government presented on March 21, 1840 the Bill of Organizations and Attributions of the City Councils. Moderate liberals didn’t want the mayors to be elected by popular election, unless by the King or political head of the province. Whoever controlled the town halls obtained an advantage in the general elections, the progressive liberals feared losing the control over the town halls.

The Law was sanctioned by the Regent María Cristina de Borbón Dos Sicilias on July 14 and published on July 21, 1840 despite violating article 70 of the Constitution of 1837.

On September 1, 1840, popular revolts broke out throughout Spain, under the instigation of progressives. In Madrid the Provisional Governing Board was established, headed by the City Council, the People and the National Militia, who they took up arms, swearing not to let them go until the Governor Queen repealed the City Council Law and dissolved the Courts.

The Liberal Declaration of General Baldomero Espartero, of September 7, 1840, where the Central Governing Board presided over by Vicente Ramón Alsina Selisis, son of the Catalan businessman Antonio Alsina from Arenys de Mar.

On September 13, 1840, the Provincial Government Board of Lugo was formed by the progressives of that city chaired by José Ramón Becerra Llamas (Navia de Suarna 1775 – Lugo 1870), who, following the example of the Madrid Board, proceeded to purge the moderates of public office position. Likewise, local boards were established in Mondoñedo, Ribadeo, Viveiro and Monforte and Sarria in the province of Lugo.

On September 19, the Provisional Governing Board of the Province of Madrid set conditions for Regent María Cristina to stop armed conflict.

On September 20, ​​1840, by Decree of the Provisional Governing Board of the Province of Madrid, moderates were purged by removing them from public office. Said Decree was published by the Gaceta de Madrid (Madrid Gazette) on September 21, 1840.

The boards created in other provinces, including Lugo’s one, were intended to be subordinated to the Central Board of Galicia established on September 27, which had a short existence, since the decrees of the Regency of October 13 and 14 ordered the cessation of all of them and the renewal of the provincial councils.

Also The Court were dissolved by the Decree of October 11, 1840, although their sessions were suspended on July 25 due to the ministerial changes of the Queen Governor. The following day María Cristina refused to sign the manifesto proposed by the Provisional Governing Board and she went into exile in France from Valencia, leaving his minor daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, in Spain.

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On October 17, 1840, with the Regent María Cristina de Borbón y Dos Sicilias in exile, it begins the Regency of General Joaquín Baldomero Fernández Espartero Álvarez de Toro.

1841 General Elections Summoned by General Espartero or December 21, 1840
1841 Courts summoned by the Regent Espartero
1841 1841 Legislature
1841 Legislature 1841-1842
1842 Breast Cuts by Decree
1842 Start Courts: On November 14, 1842, the sessions of the Courts corresponding to the Legislature of 1843 began.
1842 1842 Legislature

On October 13, Baldomero Espartero suspended the application of the Law of City Councils, approved in the Courts and sanctioned by the Crown and by Decree of the 14th. It is ordered new Courts to meet on March 1 from 1841.

In those Courts, in Session of May 10, 1841, Baldomero Espartero, as Regent of the Kingdom, swore the Constitution of 1837 and loyalty to Queen Elizabeth II.

On July 22 and 23, 1843, General Ramón María Narváez faced the Esparterist troops led by General Antonio Seoane in Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid). At the beginning of the battle, Seoane’s troops mutinied and joined to the enemy’s ones, which determined the definitive triumph of the uprising and the end of the Regency of Espartero, who left for exile in London from Puerto de Santa María on June 30, 1843 with his in of his supporters.

REGENCY OF ESPARTERO: Revolutions during this period

During Regency of Espartero, political instability and uprisings were also common.

Between September 27 and October 7, 1841, the military uprising of the moderates promoted and subsidized by the former Regent of the Kingdom María Cristina de Borbón from Paris, which became known as the Proclamation of October 1841, as its main events took place that month in the Villa of Madrid and Court.

The Proclamation had two phases and was developed in different geographical points; on September 27, Leopoldo O’Donnell Jorris rose up in Pamplona; on October 4, Gregorio Piquero Argüelles and Manuel Montes de Oca in Vitoria.

An especially critical event was one that happened on October 7, 1841. In this event Diego de León y Navarrete, Manuel de la Concha and Juan González de Pezuela assaulted the Palacio de Oriente in Madrid with the intention of kidnapping Queen Elizabeth II. The purpose of the Proclamation is explained by Diego de León in a letter to the Regent of the Kingdom on October 13, 1841 at the Casa de Correos (Mail House) de Madrid:

“… Mr. Don Baldomero Espartero. Dear Sir, Having sent me Y.M. the Queen Governor of the Kingdom, Doña María Cristina de Borbón, to restore her authority, usurped and trampled due to the events that, out of consideration for you, I won’t refrain…”

As a justification for the Proclamation it was stated that Queen Elizabeth II had been kidnapped by the progressives by entrusting her education to the Political Lawyer and Diplomat Agustín Argüelles Álvarez and to Juana María de la Vega Martínez, Countess of Espoz y Mina, who was the wife of the military Francisco Espoz y Mina, writer and prominent activist of the Progressive Liberalism that turned his house on Rúa Real in A Coruña into the sanctuary of the progressive cause.

From May 27 to July 30, 1843, the so-called Proclamation of General Ramón María Narváez, leader of the Moderate Party, who returned from exile in Paris with other related soldiers, via Valencia, since his participation in the Proclamation of October 1841.

Narváez rise up against the Regent Baldomero Espartero and his Ayacuchos clique, known name for his comrades-in-arms with whom he fought in Peru. The moderates led the military uprising with the collaboration of the progressives, including General Francisco Serrano y Domínguez (San Fernando, Cádiz 1810 – Madrid 1885).

The proclamation began on May 27, 1843 in Reus when the progressive military Juan Prim y Prat and Lorenzo Milans del Bosch, rose up in arms in Barcelona and all of Levante, Seville, which was bombed by General Van Halen spreading the proclamation throughout Spain.

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