Restoration (Spain)

The Restoration or Bourbon Restoration (Spanish: Restauración borbónica) was the period in <a href="/facts/Spanish_history/nFewJjnb">Spanish history</a> between the <a href="/facts/First_Spanish_Republic/uXJkhK1X">First Spanish Republic</a> and the <a href="/facts/Second_Spanish_Republic/KruSyR1g">Second Spanish Republic</a> from 1874 to 1931. It began on 29 December 1874, after a coup d'état by General <a href="/facts/Arsenio_Mart%25C3%25ADnez_Campos/h84aFxnB">Arsenio Martínez Campos</a> ended the First Spanish Republic and restored the <a href="/facts/Monarchy_of_Spain/6raU7qTs">monarchy</a> under <a href="/facts/Alfonso_XII/ohLGDClr">Alfonso XII</a>, and ended on 14 April 1931 with the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic.
After nearly a century of political instability and several civil wars, the Restoration attempted to establish a new political system that ensured stability through the practice of <a href="/facts/Turno/KBdfM8G7">turno</a>, an intentional rotation of liberal and conservative parties in leadership often achieved through <a href="/facts/Electoral_fraud/Mrud2cLA">electoral fraud</a>. Critics of the system included <a href="/facts/Republicanism/gUetSmCx">republicans</a>, <a href="/facts/Socialism/U2kVoPaA">socialists</a>, <a href="/facts/Anarchism/4a262gvQ">anarchists</a>, <a href="/facts/Basque_nationalism/A1gpfdR9">Basque</a> and <a href="/facts/Catalan_nationalism/LRk0kuW6">Catalan</a> nationalists, and <a href="/facts/Carlism/MEW55esE">Carlists</a>.

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