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Events on Monday 6 June 1808 1
1808Bayonne AbdicationsNapoleon installs his brother Joseph as King of SpainNapoleon summoned Ferdinand VII to Bayonne and pressured him and his father Charles IV into renouncing their claims to the Spanish throne. Napoleon then proclaimed his brother Joseph Bonaparte King of Spain, triggering widespread Spanish resistance.