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24 unusual facts about Primo de Rivera


Accidentalism and catastrophism

The second group was the Alfonsine monarchists, who wanted a return to the military government of General Primo de Rivera and the monarchy, and ran the journal Acción Española.

Ángel Ossorio y Gallardo

Ossorio y Gallardo served a career in the Congress during the Spanish Restoration as deputy for the Caspe district of Zaragoza constituency, as a member of the Conservative Party, beginning his political career as MP for Zaragoza, a seat he obtained at subsequent elections until 1923 and the dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera, when he moved away from politics.

Inspired by Luigi Sturzo's Italian People's Party, the PSP was founded in 1922 but broke up after Primo de Rivera's coup of 1923.

Battle of Aliaga

The "Battle of Aliaga" was fought on September 5-6, 1897, between the Philippine revolutionaries of Nueva Ecija and the Spanish forces of Governor General Primo de Rivera.

Esteban Terradas i Illa

On 1918, Terrades was chosen to drive the Xarxa de Ferrocarrils Secundaris de Catalunya (Secondary Net of Catalan Railways), intended to decentralize Catalonia, but was never completed due to the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera being established on 13 September 1923.

Expropriative anarchism

After that, and pressured by the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, Buenaventura Durruti, Francisco Ascaso and other members fled to France, and then to Latin America, where they were charged with more robberies.

ICONA

1928, the name of the Dirección General de Montes is changed to Dirección General de Montes, Caza y Pesca Fluvial during General Primo de Rivera's dictatorship; from then onwards it would depend from the Ministerio de Fomento.

José Luis de Oriol y Urigüen

Almost simultaneously Oriol tried his luck in politics and ran on the maurist ticket to the Cortes; he was elected in 1918 from the Baeza district (Jaen province) and joined one of the last Spanish parliaments before the coming of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship.

Lluís Companys

Companys was one of the founders of Unió de Rabassaires in 1922, for which he worked as a lawyer and director of the magazine La Terra during the years of the regime of Primo de Rivera.

Lorenzo Domínguez

During Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, he frequented two leftist cultural circles ("tertulias"): a scientific and medical group linked to Santiago Ramón y Cajal, winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize for Medicine, and a group of writers and artists associated with the great modernist writer, Ramón del Valle Inclán.

Mancheguian regionalism

El mancheguísmo fue una cuestión que estuvo presente, con mayor o menor intensidad, hasta la dictadura de Primo de Rivera y durante la Segunda República la polémica volvió a surgir con fuerza.

The Mancheguismo was an issue that was present, with greater or lesser extent, to the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera.

Manuel Senante Martinez

After the parliamentarian break during the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, Senante tried to resume his career in the Republican parliament.

Manuel Serra Moret

He lived in Argentina between 1907 and 1909 and during the Spanish dictatorships of Primo de Rivera (1925–1926) and Francisco Franco (1939–1948).

Miguel Maura

At first a supporter of the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera he moved from a monarchist position towards a moderate republicanism.

Parliament of Catalonia

The Commonwealth of Catalonia (1914–25) was an assembly of the provincial delegations of Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona, abolished by Primo de Rivera.

Plaza Mayor, Madrid

In 1873, the name changed to "Plaza de la República", and then back to "Plaza de la Constitución" from the restoration of Alfonso XII in 1876 to the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera in 1922.

Primo de Rivera

José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903–1936), lawyer and son of Miguel Primo de Rivera, who founded the fascist-inspired party, Falange Español.

Miguel Primo de Rivera (1870–1930), dictator of Spain from 23 September 1923 to 1930

Republic of Biak-na-Bato

This was after a peace treaty was signed by Aguinaldo and the Spanish Governor-General, Fernando Primo de Rivera, that includes Aguinaldo's exile to Hong Kong.

Unable to persuade the revolutionaries to give up their arms, Governor-General Primo de Rivera issued a decree on July 2, 1897, which prohibited inhabitants from leaving their villages and towns.

Shlomo Ben-Ami

His initial field of study was Spanish history, and his 1983 biography of the former Spanish Dictator, General Primo de Rivera (1923–1930), is recognized as the most authoritative study on this subject.

Statute of Catalonia of 1919

This project was sent to the Spanish Government for its approval on 28 January 1919 with several Catalan deputies to defend it, but the Socio-political situation, which changed quickly due to several strikes in the Catalan field, first, the collision between Government of Catalonia's interests and the Spanish government's ones, secondly, and, finally, the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera stopped its progression.

Víctor Pradera Larumbe

Following the coming of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship in 1923 and the subsequent dissolution of the Cortes, in 1927 Pradera accepted an offer to enter Asamblea Nacional.