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|palabrasclave=War of Independence, demography in the 18th century, demography in the 19th century, urban population at the end of the 19th century, emigration to America, Carlist War, disentailment of Madoz, disentailment of Mendizábal, cereal production in the 19th century, metallurgical production in the 19th century, railway network in the 19th century, First Spanish Republic, Bourbon Restoration, Alfonso XIII, foreign companies, trade union organisation, National Confederation of Labour (CNT), political parties, Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), agrarian question, revolutionary strikes, peasant strikes, municipal elections of 1931, Second Spanish Republic, Franco's dictatorship, concentration camps, prisons during the civil war and post-war period, construction of reservoirs, land concentration, construction of silos, construction of silos in the area of the Spanish Civil War and the post-war period.land concentration, silo construction, industrial autarchy, development poles, development plans, referendum on political reform, democratic transition, abdication of Juan Carlos I, proclamation of Felipe VI, municipal elections of 1979, Spanish democracy|descripcion=The Contemporary Age through maps and chronological tables on different aspects: Franco's dictatorship, political repression, population movements, energy, agricultural and industrial planning, etc.|url=http://nationalatlas.ign.es/images/thumb/6/62/Spain_The-1931-municipal-elections-and-subsequent-proclamation-of-the-Republic_1931_map_15907_eng.jpg/197px-Spain_The-1931-municipal-elections-and-subsequent-proclamation-of-the-Republic_1931_map_15907_eng.jpg
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 [[File:Spain_The-Spanish-War-of-Independence.-French-occupation_1808-1814_map_16797_eng.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Map: The Spanish War of Independence. French occupation. 1808-1814. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_The-Spanish-War-of-Independence.-French-occupation_1808-1814_map_16797_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_The-Spanish-War-of-Independence.-French-occupation_1808-1814_map_16797_eng.zip Data].]][[File:Spain_The-great-Carlist-War_1833-1840_map_17070_eng.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Map: The great Carlist War. 1833-1840. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_The-great-Carlist-War_1833-1840_map_17070_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_The-great-Carlist-War_1833-1840_map_17070_eng.zip Data].]] The population increased and exceeded ten million inhabitants in the 18th century, but changes in the territorial distribution took place. The inland areas, except for Madrid, suffered continuous negative rates for more than a century (''[[:File:XXXSpain_The-urban-world-and-population-density-at-the-late-18th-century_1750-1799_map_17068_eng.jpg|The Urban World and Population Density at the late 18th Century]]'' map and ''[[:File:XXXSpain_Population-and-density-population-in-the-first-third-of-the-19th-century_1800-1830_map_15693_eng.jpg|Population and Population Density in the First Third of the 19th Century]]'' maps) while the outskirts were thriving: Gijón, Ferrol, Vigo, Cartagena, Jerez de la Frontera, San Fernando, etc. This was possible thanks to the progress in medicine, hygiene, increased agricultural production, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocr_Qflmjps new towns] founded by the State, the arrival of technicians and foreign residents, the creation of industries, among other reasons.<br>
The Spanish War of Independence, the Carlist War and the continuous guerrillas, absolutist or liberal, reinforced the demographic blow, either due to deaths (500,000? 1808-1814) or to those exiled; some for their Francophile progressivism (the ''afrancesados'', like [https://historia-arte.com/artistas/francisco-de-goya Goya]), others for their liberal activism. Also due to the plagues from 1800, 1814, 1833. In 1833, the country reached 12,162,000 inhabitants, which still meant a very weak density: just 1,636 inhabitants per square mile, as opposed to 4,659 inhabitants in the Netherlands, 3,875 in the United Kingdom, 3,085 in France or 1,815 in Portugal. With the provincial reorganisation by Javier de Burgos (1833), the new provincial capitals grew, as well as the mining areas, such as Asturias and Ciudad Real. The inland rural exodus expanded towards the industrial areas, which developed on the outskirts, and to the cities of the Basque Country (Biscay), Catalonia (Barcelona) and Madrid. Thus, a bourgeoisie of civil servants, industrialists and merchants emerged, who supported great urban projects: districts such as ''Ensanche'' in Barcelona (Cerdà Plan, imposed by the central government) and Salamanca district, in Madrid.<br>
The war against Napoleon, who came to Spain to place his brother on the throne in Madrid (''[[:File:XXXSpain_The-Spanish-War-of-Independence.-French-occupation_1808-1814_map_16797_eng.jpg|The Spanish War of Independence]]'' map, also known as Peninsular War), brought the emergence of the first Constitution of Spain, in a besieged, progressive and liberal Cádiz. It also led to the appearance of guerrillas (a term that was made universal) against the French invader, in favour either of the absolutist king or of the liberals. The guerrillas from one side or the other continued until the mid-twenties, according to the ruling ideology. In the thirties, Infante Don Carlos, who supported a monarchy that was absolutist, ''foralista'' and with a male sucession line, refused to accept his niece Isabella as the Queen. His reluctance was even increased because she was beign supported by de liberals. He proclaimed himself King (Charles V). A long and cruel seven years war started ([https://www.lavanguardia.com/historiayvida/historia-contemporanea/20181126/47313683261/asi-nacio-el-carlismo-en-espana.html The Great Carlist War] ''[[:File:XXXSpain_The-great-Carlist-War_1833-1840_map_17070_eng.jpg|map]]''). The Convention of Bergara that ended it, started a liberal and two-party monarchy in Spain. There would be two other Carlist wars, in 1846-1849 and 1872-1876, and many attempts in 1855, 1860, 1869 and 1870.<br> In 1853 the prohibition of emigrating to America was lifted (''[[:File:Spain_Emigration-in-the-19th-century_1887_map_15702_eng.jpg|Emigration in the 19th Century]]'' map). Cuba, still Spanish, attracted the Catalan emigration. Later on, the emigration was directed to Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina. Between 1853 and 1882, there was a high Galician emigration rate (325,000, 60% of the total), and afterwards of Canarians, Asturians and Basques. The population of the Mediterranean and Balearic coastline headed for Morocco or Algeria (about 114,000, most of all, to Oran) and of the Northeast Peninsula to Europe.<br>
In 1853 <div><ul style="text-align: center; float:center"><li style="display: inline-block; vertical-align:top">[[File:Spain_The-urban-world-and-population-density-at-the prohibition of emigrating to America was lifted (''-late-18th-century_1750-1799_map_17068_eng.jpg|center|thumb|300px|Map: The urban world and population density at the late 18th century. 1750-1799. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_The-urban-world-and-population-density-at-the-late-18th-century_1750-1799_map_17068_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_The-urban-world-and-population-density-at-the-late-18th-century_1750-1799_map_17068_eng.zip Data].]]</li><li style="display: inline-block; vertical-align:top">[[File:XXXSpain_Population-and-density-population-in-the-first-third-of-the-19th-century_1800-1830_map_15693_eng.jpg|Emigration center|thumb|300px|Map: Population and density population in the first third of the 19th Century]]'' map)century. 1800-1830. Spain. [//centrodedescargas. Cuba, still Spanish, attracted the Catalan emigrationcnig. Later on, the emigration was directed to Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentinaes/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida. Between 1853 do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Population-and 1882, there was a high Galician emigration rate (325,000, 60% -density-population-in-the-first-third-of -the total), -19th-century_1800-1830_map_15693_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Population-and afterwards -density-population-in-the-first-third-of Canarians, Asturians -the-19th-century_1800-1830_map_15693_eng.zip Data].]]</li><li style="display: inline-block; vertical-align:top">[[File:Spain_Urban-population-and Basques-population-density-at-the-late-19th-century_1860-1899_map_17071_eng. The jpg|center|thumb|300px|Map: Urban population and population of density at the Mediterranean late 19th century. 1860-1899. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Urban-population-and Balearic coastline headed for Morocco or Algeria (about 114,000, most of all, to Oran) -population-density-at-the-late-19th-century_1860-1899_map_17071_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Urban-population-and of -population-density-at-the-late-19th-century_1860-1899_map_17071_eng.zip Data].]]</li><li style="display: inline-block; vertical-align:top">[[File:Spain_Emigration-in-the-19th-century_1887_map_15702_eng.jpg|center|thumb|300px|Map: Emigration in the 19th century. 1887. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Emigration-in-the-19th-century_1887_map_15702_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Emigration-in-the Northeast Peninsula to Europe-19th-century_1887_map_15702_eng.zip Data].]]</li> </ul><br/div>
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[[File:Spain_Ecclesiastical-confiscations-of-Mendizabal_1836-1837_map_15695_eng.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Map: Ecclesiastical confiscations of Mendizábal. 1836-1837. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Ecclesiastical-confiscations-of-Mendizabal_1836-1837_map_15695_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Ecclesiastical-confiscations-of-Mendizabal_1836-1837_map_15695_eng.zip Data].]]
[[File:Spain_Ecclesiastical-confiscations-of-Madoz_1855-1867_map_15696_eng.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Map: Ecclesiastical confiscations of Madoz. 1855-1867. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Ecclesiastical-confiscations-of-Madoz_1855-1867_map_15696_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Ecclesiastical-confiscations-of-Madoz_1855-1867_map_15696_eng.zip Data].]]
The objective of the ecclesiastical confiscations, known as ''desamortizaciones'', was the nationalisation of all the assets (buildings, land, works of art, books, etc.) from the so-called ''manos muertas'', most of which were property of the religious communities, except for the educational and health care ones. There were precedents: assets belonging to the expelled Jesuits, some attempts by Godoy, the assets confiscation to the liberals and the Francophiles, or the nationalisation of the Inquisition property and of the military orders, decreed by the ''Cortes de Cádiz''.<br>
The ecclesiastical confiscation of Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, who was the progressivist Treasury Minister during the regency of María Cristina, started in 1835. The goods from religious orders were confiscated and sold to the highest bidder to pay off public debt, finance the Carlist War and create an agrarian middle class with the peasants, who would then purchase the cultivated land. He also wanted to get supporters for liberal ideas and persuade the Carlist War towards the child Queen, apart from promoting the agrarian production and its trade. Between 1836 and 1837, 3,600 millions of ''reales'' (Spanish currency) were raised (''[[:File:XXXSpain_Ecclesiastical-confiscations-of-Mendizabal_1836-1837_map_15695_eng.jpg|Ecclesiastical Confiscations of Mendizabal]]'' map).<br>
The execution of the Mendizábal confiscation decrees was paralysed during the moderate decade (1844-1854, Narváez government). However, Pascual Madoz, Treasury Minister during the progressive biennium (1855-1856, government of Espartero), reactivated them with more intensity: he applied them not only for the confiscation of church property, such as in the first confiscation, but also for the communal properties from the municipalities and the ones from the State itself (''[[:File:XXXSpain_Ecclesiastical-confiscations-of-Madoz_1855-1867_map_15696_eng.jpg|Ecclesiastical Confiscations of Madoz]]'' map). They were aimed at financing railway works, promoting agrarian production and modernising the countryside.<br>
In general, the peasants were unable to buy the confiscated land, which fell into the hands of, either the former owners (through figureheads) or the wealthy urban bourgeoisie, transformed into the landlord's bourgeoisie. On the other hand, many municipalities remained without rents and had to increase the tax burden. It is relevant to point out that provincial museums were created with the [https://museo-mnev.gvam.es/#/ works of art], and monastic libraries were transferred to the newly created provincial secondary schools and to some universities.
The iron exploitation was important for the [https://www.lavanguardia.com/historiayvida/historia-contemporanea/20180920/47312534370/el-ferrocarril-en-espana.html railway expansion]. The benefits from the Madoz confiscation decrees and a series of laws that promoted its financing, such as the ''Ley General de Ferrocarriles de 1855'' (General Railway Act), which attracted foreign capital, contributed to it (French capital in the Northern rails and British in the Sourthern ones). The first railway in the Iberian Peninsula was the Barcelona-Mataró line in 1848, followed by the Madrid-Aranjuez one in 1851. In 10 years (1856-1866) 460 km were built per year, reaching 5,000 km. In a second 23-year-stage, (1873-1896) it reached 12,000 km. The 20th century started with 15,000-km-railway lines, some of which were international: Madrid-Lisbon (1881) and Lisbon-Madrid-Paris (1887).<br>
 
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[[File:Spain_Large-foreign-corporations_1800-1899_map_15653_eng.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Map: Large foreign corporations. 1800-1899. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Large-foreign-corporations_1800-1899_map_15653_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Large-foreign-corporations_1800-1899_map_15653_eng.zip Data].]]
Alfonso XIII assumed full authority as king on his 16th birthday, among a general historical pessimism provoked by the ''Desastre del 98'' (98 Disaster), that marked the Generation of 1898.<br>
Foreign colonial companies owned the raw materials (''[[:File:XXXSpain_Large-foreign-corporations_1800-1899_map_15653_eng.jpg|Large Foreign Corporations]]'' map). Germans, Belgians and French had the mining concessions and the English controlled more than 50% of the foreign capital in many industries: forestry (cork), food (Suchard), and, of course, mining ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j7FwTxt3NA Riotinto]). From 1868 onwards (Mining Law), the State had improved its commitment with them. Zinc, copper, mercury and lead were extracted.<br>
The Spanish capital, with exceptions, such as the Marquis of Salamanca years before, settled for its agricultural ''latifundia'' (''[[:File:XXXSpain_The-large-rural-property-in-the-first-half-of-the-20th-century_1900-1931_map_15757_eng.jpg|The Large Rural Property]]'' map). Despite that, the agri-food industry sector was emerging timidly. The unresolved agricultural issue (66% of the active population) with a high number of ''jornaleros'' (landless day [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_xVhVGnvnJ0/Uwpp9au6SWI/AAAAAAAAIPI/nGTFuflAUrE/s1600/detalle+de+la+siega+la+recolección.jpg labourers]), temporary unemployed and mostly illiterate, caused the appearance of the revolutionary agricultural labour unions.<br>
The social issues also remained unresolved. In 1916 there were 237 strikes; in 1920 more than 1,000. The repression of the 1917 Spanish general strike (''[[:File:XXXSpain_Strikes-and-social-conflicts-in-the-first-half-of-the-20th-Century_1917-1935_map_15906_eng.jpg|Strikes and Social Conflicts]]'' map) left dozens of deaths and thousands arrested.<br>
Under the Primo de Rivera dictatorship there was a decrease in conflict due to the big public works and the collaboration of the General Union of Workers (Unión General de Trabajadores, UGT). But the situation blew up again in 1929. The National Confederation of Labour (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, CNT) reached 700,000 affiliates during that year, and in the first years of the Republic, the UGT doubled that number. In Andalusia the peasants alliances exceeded 100,000 affiliates on the strike of 1934, wich anticipated the general revolutionary strike (''[[:File:XXXSpain_Affiliation-to-the-National-Confederation-of-Labour-in-1911_1911_map_16024_eng.jpg|Affiliation to National Confederation of Labour]]'' and ''[[:File:XXXSpain_Affiliation-to-the-Spanish-Socialist-Workers--Party-in-1919_1919_map_16025_eng.jpg|Affiliation to the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party]]'' maps).<br> <div><ul style="text-align: center"><li style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: top">[[File:Spain_Affiliation-to-the-National-Confederation-of-Labour-in-1911_1911_map_16024_eng.jpg|center|thumb|300px|Map: Affiliation to the National Confederation of Labour in 1911. 1911. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Affiliation-to-the-National-Confederation-of-Labour-in-1911_1911_map_16024_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Affiliation-to-the-National-Confederation-of-Labour-in-1911_1911_map_16024_eng.zip Data].]]</li><li style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: top">[[File:Spain_Affiliation-to-the-Spanish-Socialist-Workers--Party-in-1919_1919_map_16025_eng.jpg|center|thumb|300px|Map: Affiliation to the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party in 1919. 1919. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Affiliation-to-the-Spanish-Socialist-Workers--Party-in-1919_1919_map_16025_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Affiliation-to-the-Spanish-Socialist-Workers--Party-in-1919_1919_map_16025_eng.zip Data].]]</li><li style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: top">[[File:Spain_The-large-rural-property-in-the-first-half-of-the-20th-century_1900-1931_map_15757_eng.jpg|center|thumb|300px|Map: The large rural property in the first half of the 20th century. 1900-1931. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_The-large-rural-property-in-the-first-half-of-the-20th-century_1900-1931_map_15757_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_The-large-rural-property-in-the-first-half-of-the-20th-century_1900-1931_map_15757_eng.zip Data].]]</li><li style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: top">[[File:Spain_Strikes-and-social-conflicts-in-the-first-half-of-the-20th-Century_1917-1935_map_15906_eng.jpg|center|thumb|300px|Map: Strikes and social conflicts in the first half of the 20th Century. 1917-1935. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Strikes-and-social-conflicts-in-the-first-half-of-the-20th-Century_1917-1935_map_15906_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Strikes-and-social-conflicts-in-the-first-half-of-the-20th-Century_1917-1935_map_15906_eng.zip Data].]]</li></ul></div>
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[[File:Spain_The-1931-municipal-elections-and-subsequent-proclamation-of-the-Republic_1931_map_15907_eng.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Map: The 1931 municipal elections and subsequent proclamation of the Republic. 1931. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_The-1931-municipal-elections-and-subsequent-proclamation-of-the-Republic_1931_map_15907_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_The-1931-municipal-elections-and-subsequent-proclamation-of-the-Republic_1931_map_15907_eng.zip Data].]]
The republican parties had sworn allegiance to bring the republic through the Pact of San Sebastián (1930), as a consequence of the disrepute of the Monarchy. And they took advantage of the municipal elections in 1931 because, although the monarchists got more municipal councillors, the vote in the big cities was republican. Many people took to the streets and Alfonso XIII, abandoned by everybody, stopped his royal functions and left «Spain…the sole lady of its own destiny».<br>
In [https://lacorrientedelgolfo.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/fachada-sec3b1ora-maravillas-bravo-murillo.jpg May 1931], more than 100 convents were set on fire. The following year there was an anarchist revolutionary attempt, a monarchist uprising and even a failed coup d’état by General Sanjurjo. And while the Agrarian Reform, the army reorganisation, the generalisation of the education and the regional planning was faced by the Republican Courts, the strikes and revolts continued, resulting in a tough response with 25 deaths in the anarchist Casas Viejas uprising. The society was not ready for with some decisions: the divorce law, the recognition of the Soviet Union; others, like the expulsion of the Jesuits, seemed exaggerated. And some raised powerful enemies against the Republic, such as the agrarian reform or the one of the army.<br>
 
[[File:Spain_Dictatorship-of-General-Franco--concentration-camps-and-prisons-during-the-Civil-War-and-the-post--War-period_1936-1976_map_16021_eng.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Map: Dictatorship of General Franco: concentration camps and prisons during the Civil War and the post-War period. 1936-1976. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Dictatorship-of-General-Franco--concentration-camps-and-prisons-during-the-Civil-War-and-the-post--War-period_1936-1976_map_16021_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Dictatorship-of-General-Franco--concentration-camps-and-prisons-during-the-Civil-War-and-the-post--War-period_1936-1976_map_16021_eng.zip Data].]]
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From 1959 onwards, (the isolation had already stopped due to the ''cold war''), technocratic programs were implemented (the Development Plans) with industrial parks and estates throughout the country. Undoubtedly there was economic progress, urban middle classes were created in large numbers and the active agrarian population decreased by 10% due to emigration to industrial areas. Spain was considered the tenth world economic power for a few years. But in 1975 nobody wanted to continue with a dictatorship and the country returned to a democratic system.<br>
 
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Once the dictator had died, the process known as “transition” began, which paved the way to a Western parliamentary democracy in Spain. The rulers he had appointed, trusting that the Francoist militarism would be perpetuated, understood that it was a senseless anachronism and the anti-Francoist rulers (from the exile or in captivity) coincided in the need to lead the country towards its identification with Europe; it was necessary to assume waivers from [https://static.eldiario.es/clip/9a5ac512-4520-49de-a868-f1d945303adc_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg both sides].<br>
<div><ul style="text-align: right; float:right"> <li style="display: inline-block">[[File:Spain_Referendum-on-political-reform-towards-democracy_1976_map_16023_eng.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Map: Referendum on political reform towards democracy. 1976. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Referendum-on-political-reform-towards-democracy_1976_map_16023_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Referendum-on-political-reform-towards-democracy_1976_map_16023_eng.zip Data].]]</li><li style="display: inline-block">[[File:Spain_Municipal-elections-of-1979.-Leftist-victory-in-provincial-capitals_1979_map_18665_eng.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Map: Municipal elections of 1979. Leftist victory in provincial capitals. 1979. Spain. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Municipal-elections-of-1979.-Leftist-victory-in-provincial-capitals_1979_map_18665_eng.pdf PDF]. [//centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/busquedaRedirigida.do?ruta=PUBLICACION_CNIG_DATOS_VARIOS/aneTematico/Spain_Municipal-elections-of-1979.-Leftist-victory-in-provincial-capitals_1979_map_18665_eng.zip Data].]]</li></ul></div> It could be said that the transition emerged in 1976 (''[[:File:XXXSpain_Referendum-on-political-reform-towards-democracy_1976_map_16023_eng.jpg|Referendum on Political Reform]]'' map), culminated in 1978 (Constitution approval), consolidated in 1979 (''[[:File:XXXSpain_Municipal-elections-of-1979.-Leftist-victory-in-provincial-capitals_1979_map_18665_eng.jpg|Municipal Elections of 1979. Leftist Victory in Provincial Capitals]]'' map) and with the disappearance of the secular military leadership after the failed coup d’état led by Tejero, became a milestone. The Socialist Party came to power and Spain became a member of NATO and the European Community. But why is it said that it emerged? The historians study how, under the tense Francoist surface, since the end of the sixties, Spain had developed a confluence of social, economic or cultural “transitions”, from which the political transition, once the dictator had died, was the inexorable end. The country was leaving behind the bipolar social division, which the old politicians –unable to overcome it– preferred to agitate. Now, in contrast, the new politics were building a free democracy for everyone. And Spain stands itself in front of its own history, 500 years after 1492, as a united nation, free from grudges, transparent, powerful and open to the world. The current Spanish generations will thus know, with the faithful memory of a former divisive past, how to effectively face the 21st century.
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[[File:XXXSpain_Vote-on-the-Organic-Law-of-the-abdication-of-King-Juan-Carlos-I_2014_statisticalgraph_18667_eng.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Gráfico estadísticoStatistical graph: Vote on the Organic Law of the abdication of King Juan Carlos I. 2014. Spain.]]
With the vote of the Ley Orgánica 3/2014 in the Congress, the abdication of King Juan Carlos I became effective. It was presented by the Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who pointed out that the King abdicated “in favour of his successor Felipe de Borbón y Grecia, called to become King of Spain, just after the effective date of this law”. Some Congress representatives pointed out that “a new Head of State would be elected”; others voted “no”, highlighting their decision “for the republic”, “for the Catalonian republic” or “for the democracy”.
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<p>Spain today, a European democracy (1981-2022)</p>
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<td style="color:#000000; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''Febuary 1981'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">'''[https://www.congreso.es/busqueda-de-diputados?p_p_id=diputadomodule&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_diputadomodule_mostrarFicha=true&codParlamentario=340&idLegislatura=I&mostrarAgenda=false Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo] is elected Prime Minister of Spain'''</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''May 1982'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">Spain joins NATO</td>
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<td style="color:#000000; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''December 1982'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">'''[https://www.congreso.es/busqueda-de-diputados?p_p_id=diputadomodule&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_diputadomodule_mostrarFicha=true&codParlamentario=7&idLegislatura=II&mostrarAgenda=false Felipe González] is elected Prime Minister of Spain, position that he maintains until May 1996'''</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''June 1985'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">Spain signs the Treaty of Accession to the European Economic Community</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''June 1986'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">ETA undertakes the major terrorist attack at the Hipercor supermarket in Barcelona: 21 deaths and 45 injured</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''January 1988'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">Signature of the ''Pacto de Ajuria Enea'' to eradicate terrorism</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''April 1992'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">Opening of the Seville World Expo</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''July 1992'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">Opening of the Olympic Games in Barcelona</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''March 1995'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">Approval of the Statutes of the Autonomous Cities of Ceuta and Melilla</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''April 1996'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">Pacto del Majestic: The PP receives the CIU party support to form a government and act during all the Legislature</td>
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<td style="color:#000000; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''May 1996'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">'''[https://www.congreso.es/busqueda-de-diputados?p_p_id=diputadomodule&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_diputadomodule_mostrarFicha=true&codParlamentario=316&idLegislatura=VI&mostrarAgenda=false José María Aznar] is elected Prime Minister of Spain'''</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''May 1996'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">Strong budgetary adjustments are announced</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''January 1999'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">The unique Euro currency comes into force, which will be in circulation since January 2002</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''March 2004'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">Terrorist attack on 11-M in Madrid by an Islamist group, three days before the General Elections: 191 deaths and more than 2,000 injured people</td>
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<td style="color:#000000; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''April 2004'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">'''[https://www.congreso.es/busqueda-de-diputados?p_p_id=diputadomodule&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_diputadomodule_mostrarFicha=true&codParlamentario=99&idLegislatura=VIII&mostrarAgenda=false José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero] is elected Prime Minister of Spain'''</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''March 2006'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">Approval of a New Catalonia Statute</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''October 2006'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">The GDP increases by 4% and the unemployment rate remains at 8.10%</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''April 2007'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">The real state bubble blows. Start of the Great Recession</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''December 2007'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">''Ley de la Memoria Histórica'' is passed</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''May 2010'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">Budget Cuts Plan, Labour and Pension System Reforms</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''October 2011'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">ETA announces the definitive end of the armed activity</td>
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<td style="color:#000000; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''December 2011'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">'''[https://www.congreso.es/busqueda-de-diputados?p_p_id=diputadomodule&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_diputadomodule_mostrarFicha=true&codParlamentario=178&idLegislatura=X&mostrarAgenda=false Mariano Rajoy] is elected Prime Minister of Spain.''' The Government announces a tough economic plan</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''June 2012'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">Spain gets a 100-billion-euro bank bailout from the European Union</td>
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<td style="color:#000000; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''June 2014'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">'''Abdication of the King Juan Carlos I and proclamation of the King [https://www.casareal.es/EN/ArchivoMultimedia/Paginas/archivo-multimedia_galerias-de-fotos-detalle.aspx?data=137872 Felipe VI]'''</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''July 2014'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">Economic recovery and decrease of the unemployment rate in more than 400,000 people</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''June 2018'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">First no-confidence motion accepted in democracy, presented by Pedro Sanchez against Mariano Rajoy</td>
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<td style="color:#000000; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''December 2018'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">'''[https://www.congreso.es/busqueda-de-diputados?p_p_id=diputadomodule&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_diputadomodule_mostrarFicha=true&codParlamentario=324&idLegislatura=XIII&mostrarAgenda=false Pedro Sánchez] is elected Prime Minister of Spain'''</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''January 2020'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">PSOE-Unidas Podemos coalition Government</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''March 2020'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">The COVID-19 outbreak starts. The Government declares two consecutive States of Alarm</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''February 2022'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">Russia invades Ukraine An energy crisis starts in Europe</td>
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<td style="color:#ffffff; background:#f29050; width:120px">'''June 2022'''</td>
<td style="background:#f9edda; color:#000000; text-align:left; width:400px; padding:5px;">NATO Summit in Madrid</td>
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