Who is canovas del castillo

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Autonomous Regions This section provides access to the contents in each autonomous region by browsing through maps. He did not object to some of his political friends, like Silvela and Elduayen, entering the cabinets of King Amadeus, and in declared that his attitude would depend on the concessions which government would make to Conservative principles. After the abdication of Amadeus and the proclamation of the federal republic, Canovas took the lead of the propaganda in favour of the restoration of the Bourbons, and was their principal agent and adviser.

He drew up the manifesto issued in by the young king Alphonso XII. Like Marshal Concha, marquis del Duero, he would have preferred to let events develop enough to allow of the dynasty being restored without force of arms, and he severely blamed the conduct of the generals when he first heard of the pronunciamiento of Marshal Campos at Sagunto.

Sagasta thereupon caused Canovas to be arrested 30thof December ; but the next day the Madrid garrison also proclaimed Alphonso XII. He formed a regency ministry pending the arrival of his majesty, who confirmed his appointment, and for six years Canovas was premier except during the short-lived cabinets of Marshal Jovellar in and Marshal Campos for a few months in Canovas was, in fact, the soul of the Restoration.

He had to reconstruct a Conservative party out of the least reactionary parties of the days of Queen Isabella and out of the more moderate elements of the revolution. With such followers he made the constitution of and all the laws of the monarchy, putting a limited franchise in the place of universal suffrage, curtailing liberty of conscience, rights of association and of meeting, liberty of the press, checking democracy, obliging the military to abstain from politics, conciliating the Carlists and Catholics by his advances to the Vatican, the Church and the religious orders, pandering to the protectionists by his tariff policy, and courting abroad the friendship of Germany and Austria after contributing to the marriage of his king to an Austrian princess.

Canovas crowned his policy by countenancing the formation of a Liberal party under Sagasta, flanked by Marshal Serrano and other Liberal generals, which took office in He again became premier in , and remained in office until November ; but he grew very unpopular, and nearly endangered the monarchy in by his violent repression of popular and press demonstrations, and of student riots in Madrid and the provinces.

At the death of Alphonso XII. In Canovas took office under the queen regent, and one of his first acts was to reverse the tariff policy of the Liberals, denouncing all the treaties of commerce, and passing in a highly protectionist tariff.