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
The Spanish Republic, historiographically referred to as the First Spanish Republic, was the political regime that existed in Spain from 11 February 1873 to 29 December 1874.
Allegory of the Spanish Republic, published in a satirical and liberal magazine
Engraving of the proclamation of the republic by Josep Lluís Pellicer, 1873.