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When Ferdinand VII of Spain died in 1833, his fourth wife Maria Cristina became Queen regent on behalf of their infant daughter Isabella II. This splintered the country into two factions known as the Cristinos (or Isabelinos ) and the Carlists. The Cristinos were the supporters of the Queen Regent and her government. The Carlists were the supporters of Carlos, a pretender to the throne and brother of the deceased Ferdinand VII, who denied the validity of the Pragmatic Sanction that abolished the Salic Law. The First Carlist WarBackground (See: Carlism) In the beginning of the XVIII century, the King Philip V of Spain promulgated the Salic Law, thus declaring illegal the inheritance of the Spanish crown by women. The idea was to avoid the Habsburgs recover the throne by female d lasted over seven years and the fighting spanned most of the country at one time or another, although the main conflict centered around the Carlist homelands of the Basque CountryThis article is about the traditional Basque domain. For the Spanish autonomous community, see Basque Country (autonomous community). The Basque Country Euskal Herria in Basque) straddles the western Pyrenees mountains that define the border between Franc and AragonComunidad Autonoma de Aragon Capital Zaragoza Area total % of Spain Ranked 4th 47 719 km² 9,4% Population Total (2003) % of Spain Density Ranked 11th 1 217 514 2,9% 25,51/km² Demonym English Spanish Aragonese aragones Statute of Autonomy August 16, 1982 I.

Queen Isabella II was overthrown by a conspiracy of liberal generals, and left Spain in some disgrace. The generals replaced her with Amadeo, the Duke of AostaAosta ( French: 'Aoste') is the principal city of the Valle d'Aosta in the Italian Alps. It is at the Italian side of the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The valley borders a number Europe's highest mountains, including the Cervino or Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, Monte Ros (and second son of King Victor EmmanuelVictor Emmanuel II (in Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II ( March 14 1820 January 9 1878) was the King of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia 1849 1861, and King of Italy 1861 1878. In 1842 he was married to a cousin, Maria Adelaide of Habsburg and had children inclu of ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer), Then when the Spanish elections of 1872Events January 2 Brigham Young, is arrested for bigamy (25 wives). February 20 In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens. March 1 Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park March 5 George Westinghouse patents t resulted in government violence against Carlist candidates and a swing away from the Carlists, the Carlist pretender, Carlos VII, decided that only force of arms could win him the throne.

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was considered by the Carlists as yet another crusade against secularism. In spite of the victory of their side, General Franco frustrated the pretensions of the Carlist monarchism and subsumed their militias into the Nationalist army and their political party into his National Movement.