Online History of Spain

This history consists of links to the Library of Congress and their overview of Spanish History.

Historical Setting

• IBERIA
• HISPANIA
• AL ANDALUS
• CASTILE AND ARAGON
• THE GOLDEN AGE
  • Ferdinand and Isabella
  • Charles V and Philip II
  • Spain in Decline
• BOURBON SPAIN
  • War of the Spanish Succession
  • The Enlightenment
  • The Napoleonic Era
• THE LIBERAL ASCENDANCY
  • The Cadiz Cortes
  • Rule by Pronunciamiento
  • Liberal Rule
• THE CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
  • The Cuban Disaster and the "Generation of 1898"
  • The African War and the Authoritarian Regime of Miguel Primo de Rivera
• REPUBLICAN SPAIN
• THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
• THE FRANCO YEARS
  • Franco's Political System
  • Policies, Programs, and Growing Popular Unrest
  • Foreign Policy under Franco
• THE POST-FRANCO ERA
  • Transition to Democracy
  • Disenchantment with UCD Leadership
  • Growth of the PSOE and the 1982 Elections
  • Spanish Foreign Policy in the Post-Franco Period