A general election was held in Spain on 24 February 1918, and on 10 March 1918, to elect the members of the 17th Cortes under the Spanish Constitution of 1876, during the Restoration period. All 409 s
Eduardo Dato 1911
Manuel García Prieto 1900
Álvaro de Figueroa, Count of Romanones 1919
Santiago Alba 1912
1917 Spanish general strike
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The 1917 Spanish general strike, or revolutionary general strike of 1917, took place in Spain in August 1917. It was called by the General Union of Workers and the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, an
1918 Spanish general election
…meetings of the Assembly of Parliamentarians in Barcelona (demanding constitutional reform and an increased role of regions in the power-sharing) and the revolutionary general strike in August, as the social response to the rising cost of living, unequal distribution of incomes and inspired by the Russian Revolution. After less than five…
Eduardo Dato, the Prime minister of Spain during the crisis of 1917
Ángel Pestaña, one of the leaders of the CNT during the 1917 general strike
Francisco Largo Caballero, one of the leaders of the UGT during the 1917 general strike
Julián Besteiro, Daniel Anguiano, Andrés Saborit and Francisco Largo Caballero in the Cartagena prison, photographed by Campúa (1918)