Leaders of the liberals or reformist forces during this revolution were Jose Menino, Count of Floridablanca, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos and Pedro Rodriguez, Conde de Campomanes.

* Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Spanish writer

Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, a Spanish writer, depicted with the tools of the trade.

During the Spanish Independence War it was used to hold several prisoners captured at the battle of Bailén and later, political prisoners, the most famous of these being the minister Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos ( 1802 – 1808 ) who first made a description of the castle and commissioned the first blueprints and drawings of it.

* Asturianos universales 5: Armando Palacio Valdés, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Francisco Martínez Marina, Rodrigo Álvarez de Asturias, Ramiro I, Ediciones Páramo, 1996.

The Kingston Lacy painting has previously been owned by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos and by Ceán Bermúdez, who published writings on it in 1885.

Among the most important works by the artist in the collection of the Museo del Prado are the tapestry cartoons The Parasol and The Crockery Vendor, and portraits of The Duke and Duchess of Osuna and their Children, The Countess of Chinchón, Don Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, The Family of Charles IV and The Marchioness of Santa Cruz.

The Age of Enlightenment had reached Madrid, and King Charles III, was favourable to reforms advocated by a circle of politicians, including Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Count Campomanes, Count Floridablanca, Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea ( Count of Aranda ).

In the Enlightenment of the 18th century, with the arrival of " the lights " to Spain, important topics are the prose of Fray Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, and José Cadalso ; the lyric of the Salmantine school ( with Juan Meléndez Valdés ), the lyric of the Madrilenian group ( with the story-tellers Tomás de Iriarte and Félix María Samaniego ), and the lyric of the Sevillian school ; and also the theater, with Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Ramón de la Cruz and Vicente García de la Huerta.

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* Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Enlightenment statesman, author and philosopher

The first, represented especially by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, was the restoration of the absolutist Antiguo Régimen (" Old Regime "); the second was to adopt some sort of written constitution.

Early in his career, he was supported by statesman and author Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, who, in 1787, arranged for him to study for a year in Paris.

ALLA first notice appears in the 18th century, when Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos and Carlos González de Posada talk in their letters about the idea of creating it in 1791.

True to its name, the island chain consists of three islands named Gaspar, Melchor and Baltazar and are visible from any point of the Gasan coastline.

Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos ( born Gaspar Melchor de Xove y Llanos, 5 January 1744 – 27 November 1811 ) was an Asturian-born Spanish neoclassical statesman, author, philosopher and a major figure of the Age of Enlightenment in Spain.

Pedro de Silva, the second President of the Principality of Asturias, is a direct descendent of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos through his mother, María Jesús Cienfuegos-Jovellanos Vigil-Escalera.

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Other important writers include Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto Gilb, Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Gloria Anzaldua.

* 12 October 1813 – 12 February 1814 José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco ( 1st time )

* 12 June 1814 – 3 October 1814 José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco ( 2nd time ); he stayed on as " supreme dictator " 3 October 1814 – 20 September 1840 ( from 6 June 1816 styled " perpetual supreme dictator ")

Almagro undertook his first conquest on November 1515, when he left Darien in command of 260 men and founded Villa del Acla, located in the place of the same name, but due to illness he had to leave behind this mission to the licenciate Gaspar de Espinosa.

( Gaspar Sanz ' Instrucción de Música sobre la Guitarra Española of 1674 constitutes the majority of the surviving solo corpus for the era.

Much of the policy was conducted by the minister Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares.

Just after independence was achieved, Paraguay was governed from 1814 by the dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, who closed the borders of the country and prohibited trade or any relation with the exterior until his death in 1840.

The Paraguayan dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia sought to found a society based on the principles set forth in Rousseau's Social Contract.

* 1587 – Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman ( d. 1645 )

* 1769 – An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolà establishes a base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey ( now Monterey, California ).

* 1811 – Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor

* 1769 – Don Gaspar de Portolà leads the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay.

Paraguay declared its independence from Spain in 1811 ; since then, the country has had a history of dictatorial governments, from the Utopian regime of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia ( El Supremo ) to the suicidal reign of Francisco Solano López, who nearly devastated the country in warfare against the combined forces of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay from 1865 through 1870.

Litograph of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, a 19th century ruler of Paraguay, with a mate ( beverage ) | mate and its respective bombilla.

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia was one of the greatest figures in Paraguayan history.

Three years after Paraguay overthrew Spanish authority and gained its independence, the country's economy was controlled by the autarchic policies of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia ( 1814 – 40 ), who closed the young nation's borders to virtually all international trade.

* The Spanish delegation was headed by Gaspar de Bracamonte y Guzmán, and besides included the diplomats and writers Diego de Saavedra Fajardo, and Bernardino de Rebolledo.

He had Regiomontanus attempt the first sanctioned reorganization of the Julian calendar and increased the size and prestige of the papal chapel choir, bringing singers and some prominent composers ( Gaspar van Weerbeke, Marbrianus de Orto, and Bertrandus Vaqueras ) to Rome from the North.

The first recorded European discovery of San Francisco Bay was on November 4, 1769 when Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà, unable to find the port of Monterey, California, continued north close to what is now Pacifica and reached the summit of the high Sweeney Ridge, where he sighted San Francisco Bay.

* José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia ( 1766 – 1840 ) Paraguayan.