Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquis of Estella, GE, was a Spanish dictator and military officer who ruled as prime minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during the last years of the Bourbon Restoration.
Miguel Primo de Rivera
Lithography of the heroic actions of Primo de Rivera during the First Melillan campaign, 1893
Primo de Rivera in military attire, c. 1920
Announcement of the new government in Madrid
The Restoration or Bourbon Restoration was the period in Spanish history between the First Spanish Republic and the Second Spanish Republic from 1874 to 1931. It began on 29 December 1874, after a coup d'état by General Arsenio Martínez Campos ended the First Spanish Republic and restored the monarchy under Alfonso XII, and ended on 14 April 1931 with the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic.
Portrait of Alfonso XII
Alfonso XIII
Miguel Primo de Rivera