The first Spanish Constitution was in 1812.

Therefore, by the end of the decade, some Cubans were inspired by the successes of Simón Bolívar, despite the fact that the Spanish Constitution was restored in 1820.

* 2005 recasting of the 1980 Constitution ( PDF version ) ( Spanish original )

The final 17 reflect the bitter disappointment of liberals when the restored Bourbon monarchy, encouraged by the Catholic hierarchy, rejected the Spanish Constitution of 1812 and opposed both state and religious reform.

Although colloquially and literarily the expression " King of Spain " or " King of the Spains " was already widespread, and the two crowns were ruled by the same monarch, they retained their individual institutions and identity until 1812, with the enactment of the Spanish Constitution of 1812.

On March 19, 1812, the Cádiz Cortes created the first modern Spanish constitution, the Constitution of 1812 ( informally named La Pepa ).

The Constitution of 1812 had eliminated all discrimination in the American colonies between Spaniards who were born in Spain and Spanish citizens who happened to be born in the colonies of New Spain.

:: Example 1 ( parliamentary monarchy ): Section 56 ( 1 ) of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 states:

He arbitrates and moderates the regular functioning of the institutions, assumes the highest representation of the Spanish State in international relations, especially with the nations of its historical community, and exercises the functions expressly conferred on him by the Constitution and the laws.

* 1812 – The Cádiz Cortes promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.

Silas Talbot engineered an expedition to Puerto Plata harbor in the Colony of Santo Domingo, a possession of France's ally Spain, on May 11, 1800 ; sailors and marines from the USS Constitution under Lieutenant Isaac Hull captured the French privateer Sandwich in the harbor and spiked the guns in the Spanish fort.

The name was chosen, among others, to avoid confusion with the term Constitution ( i. e. the Spanish Constitution of 1978 ).

The Spanish Constitution of 1978 abolished the Roman Catholic Church as the official state religion, while recognizing the role it plays in Spanish society.

Since self-determination is not recognized in the Spanish Constitution of 1978, some Basques abstained and some even voted against it in the referendum of December 6 of that year.

Current Spanish Constitution signed in 1977.

* December 6 – The Spanish Constitution officially restores the country's democratic government.

King Ferdinand VII, who assumed the throne after Napoleon was driven out of Spain, refused to agree to the liberal Spanish Constitution of 1812 on his accession to the throne in 1814.

When Ferdinand's rule was restored, these juntas were cautious of abandoning their autonomy, and an alliance between local elites, merchant interests, nationalists, and liberals opposed to the abrogation of the Constitution of 1812 rose up against the Spanish in the New World.

* July – A revolt under Guglielmo Pepe forces Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies to sign a constitution modeled on the Spanish Constitution of 1812.

The new king oversaw the Spanish transition to democracy ; the Spanish Constitution of 1978, approved on 28 September 1978, recognized the monarchy.

Both revolts were easily suppressed and the political unrest was subsumed into the general political process in the Spanish world that led to the Spanish Constitution of 1812.

* 1812 – Peninsula War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.

It was only in the constitution of 1812 that the name " Españas " for the Spanish kingdom and the use of the title of " King of the Spains " were officially adopted.

* Robert McKnight ( c. 1789-1846 ), born in Augusta County, moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1809, member of a trading expedition under Zebulon Pike to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1812, captured by Spanish and imprisoned until 1821, eventually renounced his United States citizenship, moved to Mexico, and became owner of the Santa Rita del Cobre copper mine in Chihuahua ( now New Mexico ).

The county was officially organized on October 1, 1812, and is named after the Spanish district once located in the region, after Saint Genevieve, patroness of Paris, France.

The county was officially organized on October 1, 1812, and is named after a district located in the region that was once under Spanish rule, Nuevo Madrid, after Madrid, Spain.

Following The War of 1812, “ Spanish Fort ” as it was now commonly referred to, was officially property of the United States.

War and revolution against Napoleon's occupation led to the Spanish Constitution of 1812, later a cornerstone of European liberalism.

The Spanish zarzuela, La Viejecita ( 1897 ) set in 1812, celebrates the entry of the joint forces into Madrid.

The most dramatic event of the Spanish period was the powerful 1812 earthquake, and tsunami, with an estimated magnitude of 7. 1, which destroyed the Mission as well as the rest of the town ; water reached as high as present-day Anapamu street, and carried a ship half a mile up Refugio Canyon.

Established in 1836 as Portersville, county seat of Porter County, it was renamed to Valparaiso ( meaning " Valley of Paradise " in Spanish ) in 1837 after Valparaíso, Chile, near which the county's namesake David Porter battled in the Battle of Valparaiso during the War of 1812.

In legislation enacted on October 31, Congress made temporary provisions for local civil government to continue as it had under French and Spanish rule and authorized the President to use military forces to maintain order.

( Bien de Interés Cultural ) in the current legislation of the Spanish Historical Heritage ( Law 16 / 1985 of 25 June ).

After the union, Portugal came under Spanish legislation that prohibited it from directly engaging in the slave trade as a carrier, and become a target for the traditional enemies of Spain, losing a large share to the Dutch, British and French.

During the 1620s, again influenced by a desire to reform Spanish life for the better, Philip also passed considerable legislation with puritanical overtones.

Although designated with numbers that are sometimes the same as modern U. S. Army corps, there is no direct lineage between the 43 U. S. corps of the Civil War and those with similar names in the 20th century due to Congressional legislation caused by the outcry from Grand Army of the Republic veterans during the Spanish – American War.

In one instance, an elementary school bus driver prohibited students from speaking Spanish on their way to school after Colorado passed its legislation.

The Infanta detested Charles, and the Spanish confronted them with terms that included the repeal of anti-Catholic legislation by Parliament.

When the 1838 remedial legislation came into force, sterling was well established in these territories, the Spanish dollar had been barred from circulation, and the authorities had no desire to adopt the devaluation that would have been associated with the correct rating of $ 1 = 4s 2d.

It became an independent municipality only in the year 1611, not by legislation, but by mutual agreement by and between the Spanish friars of both towns who were then the influential ruling class.

Although AVE trains are operated by Renfe, the Spanish state railway company, private companies may be allowed to operate trains in the future using other brands, in accordance with European Union legislation.

The conference was designed to promoted the revision and update of the entire legal system, replacing the Spanish laws by modern legislation that responded to Cuban realities.

Part of Spanish legislation, for a period of many centuries, had the name of fueros ; those that will serve to give general notions of them, and the most important for my object, are conserved in the collection of Castilian law formed in the mid-13th century by order of King Alfonso X ( the Learned ) with the title Las Siete Partidas seven parts.

During his administration Madrid began following the new same-sex marriage legislation supported by the national government and approved by the Spanish Congress of Deputies.

Spanish legislation supported the cabildos as means of entertainment for the slave population, and as social control alleviating the tensions between the masters and the slaves.

Cuban legislation from 2000 onwards is available here in Spanish.