First Carlist War
A seven-year dynastic civil war triggered by the disputed succession after Ferdinand VII's death in 1833: liberals backing his infant daughter Isabella II against absolutists supporting his brother Don Carlos, whose strongholds lay in the Basque Country, Navarre and rural Catalonia, where defence of the fueros fused with Catholic-traditionalist Carlism. The war entrenched the alignment of liberalism with the centralising state and Carlism with regionalist reaction, and cemented the praetorian role of the army in 19th-century Spanish politics.
- Year: 1833 CE
- Category: Political
