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Events on Tuesday 11 February 1873 1
1873Proclamation of the First Spanish RepublicSpain's monarchy gives way to a short-lived republicAfter 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.