Timeline February 1873

Events in February 1873 2

• 1873 Proclamation of the First Spanish Republic Spain's monarchy gives way to a short-lived republic After King Amadeo I abdicated, the Spanish Cortes proclaimed the First Republic on 11 February 1873. The new republic was immediately beset by the Third Carlist War, cantonalist uprisings, and political instability, and it would collapse within two years.
• 1873 Coinage Act of 1873 United States ends bimetallism, angering silver interests Signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on 12 February 1873, the act discontinued the minting of standard silver dollars and moved the United States toward a de facto gold standard. Silver producers and debtors denounced it as the "Crime of '73," and it became a lasting grievance in American monetary politics.