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14 unusual facts about Charles IV of Spain


Allied Arts Guild

A king of Spain, probably Charles IV, ceded the property to Don Jose Arguello, commander of the Presidio of San Francisco.

Arturo O'Neill

He joined the Spanish royal army very young during the reign of Charles IV of Spain.

Bayonne Statute

In 1808, after a period of shaky alliance between the Spanish Antiguo Régimen and the Napoleonic French First Empire, the Mutiny of Aranjuez (17 March 1808) removed the king's minister Manuel de Godoy, Prince of the Peace, and led to the abdication of king Charles IV of Spain (19 March 1808).

Charles IV of Spain

However, after Napoleon's victory over Prussia in 1807, Godoy again steered Spain back onto the French side.

Descubierta and Atrevida

In Mexico Malaspina received instructions from the Spanish king, Carlos IV requiring a change of plans.

Dominion of British West Florida

The founders of the micronation assert that the US annexation was illegal, because control of the region had actually defaulted to the United Kingdom in 1808, upon the removal from office of King Charles IV of Spain, thus invalidating the Treaty of Paris and the US annexation to which it gave rise.

Floridablanca Ministry

The Floridablanca Ministry was a Spanish government that served between 1777 and 1792 during the reigns of Charles III of Spain and Charles IV of Spain.

Francisco de Eliza

The King of Spain, Carlos IV, issued the Royal Order of April 14, 1789, requiring the establishment at Nootka Sound be maintained with "honour and firmness".

Franciszek Kareu

In 1801 however, the strong opposition towards the existence of the Society from Charles IV of Spain led Pope Pius VII to qualify his acceptance of the Society by limiting it to the Russian Empire.

Mariano Velazquez de la Cadena

In 1802, he was recalled from the council to become King Charles IV's private secretary.

Pilar, New Mexico

In February 1793 the region was taken possession of by 20 persons who had received it as a land grant (Cieneguilla Grant) from the King of Spain Charles IV through his military governor in New Mexico, Don Fernando Chacón.

Santiago Mariño

He had been on the throne just 48 days after his father Charles IV abdicated in his favor.

Supreme Central and Governing Junta of the Kingdom

It was established on 25 September 1808 following the Spanish victory at the Battle of Bailén and after the Council of Castile declared null and void the abdications of Charles IV and Ferdinand VII done at Bayonne earlier in May.

U.S. Route 61

The original Spanish name el camino real was conferred by Colonel George Morgan in honor of Charles IV of Spain, the reigning King of Spain (1788-1808).


Dos de Mayo Uprising

King Charles IV had been forced to abdicate in favour of his son Ferdinand VII, and at the time of the uprising both were in the French city of Bayonne at the insistence of Napoleon.

Maria Kunigunde of Saxony

Joseph considered marrying Isabella's younger sister Maria Louisa (1751-1819); however, she was already engaged to the Spanish heir apparent and later King Charles IV (1748-1819).

Vicente López y Portaña

When king Charles IV visited the city of Turia in 1802, the king appointed him an honorary court painter at the same time he gave him some commissions that he executed successfully.