When Queen Isabella and her husband were forced to leave Spain by the Revolution of 1868, Alfonso accompanied them to Paris.

When he came of age in 1902, the week of his majority was marked by festivities, bullfights, balls and receptions throughout Spain.

When the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, he fled and left Spain, but did not abdicate the throne.

When dictator Franco died in 1975, his successor Juan Carlos I played his part as the living symbol of the transition of Spain to a democratic constitutional monarchy.

When Spain opened the Cuban trade ports, it quickly became a popular place.

When the Arabic text was translated into Latin, the translator Gerard of Cremona ( probably in Spain ) mistook the Arabic word كلاب for kilāb ( the plural of كلب kalb ), meaning " dogs ", writing hastile habens canes (" spearshaft having dogs ").

When the Twelve Years ' Truce in 1621 was over, the Republic had a free hand to re-wage war with Spain.

When Spain became the leading power of Europe, the Spanish armies carried fencing abroad and particularly into the south of Italy, one of the main battlefields between both nations.

When the frontier with Spain was re-opened, telephone and telex circuits cut by General Franco were re-established.

When the border between Spain and Gibraltar was eventually closed by the Spanish dictator in 1969, the newspaper changed its ownership and begun to be published in English.

When not breeding, the auks spent their time foraging in the waters of the North Atlantic, ranging as far south as northern Spain through Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Ireland, and Great Britain.

When armies throughout Spain pronounced themselves in sympathy with the revolters, led by Rafael del Riego, Ferdinand relented and was forced to accept the liberal Constitution of 1812.

When Spain tried to invade and conquer England it was a fiasco, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 associated Elizabeth's name forever with what is popularly viewed as one of the greatest victories in English history.

When British troops attempted to seize Buenos Aires in 1806, the attack was repulsed by the city's residents, not by Spain.

When Innocent X died, Chigi, the candidate favoured by Spain, was elected pope after eighty days in the conclave, on 7 April 1655, taking the name of Alexander VII.

When a projected international crusade failed to materialise, Douglas and his company sailed to Spain where Alfonso XI of Castile was mounting a campaign against the Moorish kingdom of Granada.

When Portuguese explorers first came into contact with the Japanese ( see Nanban period ), they described Japanese conditions in analogy, likening the emperor, with great symbolic authority but little political power, to the Pope, and the shogun to secular European rulers, e. g. the King of Spain.

When finished, travel time between the two major cities will reduce from 6, 5 hours to 3 hours and 10 minutes, using trains ordered from Spain that can reach up to 250 km / h.

When Cardinal Wolsey, the king's Lord Chancellor, selected several Cambridge scholars, including Edward Lee, Stephen Gardiner and Richard Sampson, to be diplomats throughout Europe, Cranmer was chosen to take a minor role in the English embassy in Spain.

Waits found himself in a situation similar to his earlier one with Frito Lay in 2000 when Audi approached him, asking to use " Innocent When You Dream " ( from Franks Wild Years ) for a commercial broadcast in Spain.

When trade is at stake, it is your last entrenchment ; you must defend it, or perish ... Sir, Spain knows the consequence of a war in America ; whoever gains, it must prove fatal to her ... is this any longer a nation?

When Mercadante returned to Italy after living in Spain and Portugal, Donizetti's music reigned supreme in Naples, an ascendancy which did not end until censorship problems with the latter's Poliuto caused a final break.

When Franco died on 20 November 1975 a Bourbon monarch was restored to the throne of Spain two days later as Juan Carlos I.

When Philippe, grandson of Louis XIV, became King of Spain as Philip V, he gave up his French titles.

When Spain failed to maintain the continental system, the uneasy Spanish alliance with France ended in all but name.

Under the rule of Charles III and his ministers – Leopoldo de Gregorio, Marquis of Esquilache and José Moñino, Count of Floridablanca – Spain embarked on a program of enlightened despotism that brought Spain a new prosperity in the middle of the 18th century.

* July 14 – 15 – In Spain, General Leopoldo O ' Donnell takes control of the government, bringing an end to the bienio progresista.

# Leopoldo de Austria ( c. 1515 – 1557 ), Bishop of Córdoba, Spain ( 1541 – 1557 ), with illegitimate succession.

The poem received its canonization during a series of lectures by Leopoldo Lugones in 1913 ( published as El payador in 1916 ), where the great Argentine poet crowned the Martín Fierro the epic of Argentina, comparable to Dante's Divine Comedy for Italy or Cervantes's Don Quixote for Spain.

Don Leopoldo O ' Donnell y Jorris, 1st Duke of Tetuan, 1st Count of Lucena, 1st Viscount of Aliaga, Grandee of Spain, ( Spanish: Leopoldo O ' Donnell y Jorris, I duque de Tetuán, I conde de Lucena, I vizconde de Aliaga, grande de España ) ( January 12, 1809 – November 5, 1867 ), was a Spanish general and statesman.

At that time the political climate in Spain was unstable with the government of Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo having political difficulties on many fronts, including with the military who distrusted him.

Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo, 1st Marquis of the Ría of Ribadeo and Grandee of Spain (; 14 April 1926 – 3 May 2008 ) was a Spanish political figure and prime minister during the period of transition after the end of Francisco Franco's regime.

* Leopoldo O ' Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan ( 1809 – 1867 ), former Prime Minister of Spain

Leopoldo de Gregorio, marquis de Esquilache, Spanish statesman and reformer of King Charles III of Spain | Charles III

Infante Jaime of Spain, Duke of Segovia, Grandee of Spain ( Jaime Leopoldo Isabelino Enrique Alejandro Alberto Alfonso Víctor Acacio Pedro Pablo María de Borbón y Battenberg ) ( 23 June 1908 – 20 March 1975 ), was the second son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.

* Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, former Prime Minister of Spain

Acratas, also known as the anti-crats, was a protest group formed at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, by Agustin Garcia Calvo in 1967.

His uncle José Calvo Sotelo was Finance Minister of Spain under Miguel Primo de Rivera.

* 2008-2011: * Prof. Maria L. Calvo, Complutense University of Madrid ( UCM ), Department of Optics, Madrid, Spain.

He challenged for the European featherweight title again on 25 May 2001, but ended in defeat over 12 rounds against Manuel Calvo from Spain.

Spain had recently joined NATO and Sotelo preferred not to create tensions with the UK or with Argentina ; quietly returning the men to Argentina seemed the best course.

Sotelo was born in Sevilla, Spain, and studied at the University of Salamanca before entering the convent of " Calvario de los Hermanos Menores ".

Sotelo planned and accompanied a Japanese embassy sent by Date Masamune to Spain in 1613.