First Spanish Republic

Spanish Republic
República Española
1873–1874
Motto: Plus Ultra (Latin)
Further Beyond
Anthem: Himno de Riego
Anthem of Riego
CapitalMadrid
Common languagesSpanish
Religion
Catholicism
Demonym(s)Spaniard, Spanish
GovernmentFederal semi-presidential republic
President 
• 1873
Estanislao Figueras
• 1873
Francesc Pi i Margall
• 1873
Nicolás Salmerón
• 1873–1874
Emilio Castelar
• 1874
Francisco Serrano
Prime Minister 
• 1874
Juan de Zavala
• 1874
P. Mateo Sagasta
LegislatureCongress of Deputies
History 
11 February 1873
12 July 1873
29 December 1874
CurrencySpanish peseta
ISO 3166 codeES
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kingdom
of Spain
(Savoy)
Kingdom
of Spain
(Bourbon)
Allegory of the Spanish Republic, published in a satirical and liberal magazine
Engraving of the proclamation of the republic by Josep Lluís Pellicer, 1873.

The Spanish Republic (Spanish: República española), historiographically referred to as the First Spanish Republic (Spanish: Primera República española), was the political regime that existed in Spain from 11 February 1873 to 29 December 1874.

The Republic's founding ensued after the abdication of King Amadeo on 10 February 1873. On the next day a republic was proclaimed by a parliamentary majority made up of radicals, republicans and democrats. The period was beset by tensions between federal republicans and unitarian republicans. The period also saw the end of compulsory conscription, the regulation of child labor and the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico. The government inherited a state of war, the so-called Third Carlist War, ongoing since 1872, and the Ten Years' War, ongoing since 1868, to which the Cantonal rebellion added up in 1873.

The January 1874 coup of Pavía ousted the government, giving way to a praetorian republic under General Serrano. In December 1874, General Arsenio Martínez Campos staged a pronunciamiento in Sagunto, which delivered the coup de grâce to the Republic and brought the Bourbon Restoration.


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