Timeline November 1823

Events in November 1823 2

• 1750 – 1823 Thomas Erskine (1750-1823) Died 17 November 1823, aged 73 Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, was a leading British barrister renowned for defending radicals and reformers in treason trials of the 1790s, including Thomas Paine. He later served briefly as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. His courtroom advocacy helped shape modern principles of civil liberty in English law.
• 1823 French invasion of Spain Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis restore Ferdinand VII A French army authorized by the Congress of Verona crossed into Spain to crush the liberal Trienio Liberal government and restore the absolute rule of King Ferdinand VII. French forces took Madrid and besieged Cadiz, where the liberal Cortes and the captive king were based. The campaign ended Spain's constitutional experiment and ushered in a decade of repressive absolutist rule.