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Ignacio Figueroa Y Mendieta
Joaquín Ignacio Figueroa y Mendieta (22 April 1808 – 11 March 1899) was a Spanish politician and businessman. Biography Born in Llerena on 22 April 1808, the only son of Luis Figueroa y Casaus (an ''afrancesado'' who moved to Marseille after May 1808 and made a considerable fortune investing in mining companies dedicated to lead extraction in Andalusia) and Luisa Mendieta. Ignacio would inherit his father's companies. He received an education in Paris, and, after working for a time as the representative of the interests of his father in Spain, he settled in Madrid in 1845. In 1852, he married Ana de Torres, viscountess of Irueste, forming a union between an affluent bourgeois—him—and an aristocrat in economic hardship, so he got to enter aristocratic circles. He earned a seat at the Congress of Deputies for the first time in 1865, replacing the vacant seat left by Manuel García Barzanallana in the district of Guadalajara. He renewed his seat during the reign of Isabel ...
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Llerena, Badajoz
Llerena is a municipality located in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2007 census ( INE), the municipality had a population of 5,995 inhabitants. Llerena, a town that declared itself a Historical Artistic gathering on December 29, 1966, is located in southwestern Spain. The head of the judicial and economic center of the region of the country of the same name, it is equidistant from 20 municipalities, and sits at the confluence of the District 432 and 413 National Roads. History Arab period In the time of the Arabs it was called ''Ellerina'', a place contested between Arabs and Christians. It was definitively occupied in the year 1243 by Pelayo Pérez Correa, master of the Order of Santiago, to whom Ferdinand III of Castile had entrusted the reconquest of Sierra Morena. Order of Santiago The settlement was given to the Order of Santiago, to provide for its defense and resettlement. The masters of the order granted Fueros in 1297. The tradition ...
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April 1872 Spanish General Election
General elections to the Cortes Generales were held in Spain on April 3, 1872. At stake were all 391 seats in the Spanish Congress of Deputies, Congress of Deputies. The Conservative Party (Spain), Conservative-Constitutional Party (Spain), Constitutional coalition (political heir of the Progressive Party (Spain), Progressive-Liberal Union (Spain), Liberal coalition in the previous elections) won the elections. History General elections of Spain of 1872 were held on April 8 under universal male suffrage. The elections were held during the brief reign of Amadeo I, once the Spanish Constitution of 1869 was approved. Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, a member of the Constitutional Party (Spain), Constitutional Party (part of the Conservative Party (Spain), Conservative-Constitutional Party (Spain), Constitutional coalition), was the prime minister before the elections. Results References CONGRESO DE LOS DIPUTADOS - HISTORICO DE DIPUTADOS 1810-1977
1872 elections in Spain General e ...
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Members Of The Congress Of Deputies Of The Reign Of Isabella II
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organizatio ...
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1899 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** Spanish rule formally ends in Cuba with the cession of Spanish sovereignty to the U.S., concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.''The American Monthly Review of Reviews'' (February 1899), pp. 153-157 ** In Samoa, followers of Mataafa, claimant to the rule of the island's subjects, burn the town of Upolu in an ambush of followers of other claimants, Malietoa Tanus and Tamasese, who are evacuated by the British warship HMS ''Porpoise''. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as Governor of New York at the age of 39. * January 3 – A treaty of alliance is signed between Russia and Afghanistan. * January 5 – **A fierce battle is fought between American troops and Filipino defenders at the town of Pililla on the island of Luzon. *The collision of a British steamer and a French steamer kills 12 people on the English Channel. * Jan ...
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1808 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** The importation of slaves into the United States is formally banned, as the 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves takes effect. However Americans still continue the slave trade by transporting Africans to Cuba and Brazil.. ** Sierra Leone becomes a British Crown Colony. * January 22 – Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil: John (Dom João), Prince Regent, and the Braganza royal family of Portugal arrive in their colony of Brazil in exile from the French occupation of their home kingdom. * January 26 – Rum Rebellion: On the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the colony of New South Wales, disgruntled military officers of the New South Wales Corps (the "Rum Corps") overthrow and imprison Governor William Bligh and seize control of the colony. * February 2 – French troops take Rome as part of the Napoleonic Wars. * February 6 – The ship '' Topaz'' (from Boston April 5, 1807, hunting seals) ...
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Routledge
Routledge ( ) is a British multinational corporation, multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, academic journals, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioral science, behavioural science, education, law, and social science. The company publishes approximately 1,800 journals and 5,000 new books each year and their backlist encompasses over 140,000 titles. Routledge is claimed to be the largest global academic publisher within humanities and social sciences. In 1998, Routledge became a subdivision and Imprint (trade name), imprint of its former rival, Taylor & Francis, Taylor & Francis Group (T&F), as a result of a £90-million acquisition deal from Cinven, a venture capital group which had purchased it two years previously for £25 million. Following the merger of Informa and T&F in 2004, Routledge became a publishing unit and major imprint within the Informa "academic publishing ...
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Centro De Estudios Políticos Y Constitucionales
The Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (, CEPC), previously known as the Institute for Political Studies (), is an autonomous agency associated with the Ministry for the Presidency of Spain. Its mission is to analyze the international legal and sociopolitical situation, giving special attention to those issues that concern Spanish law institutions and how they relate to each other internationally and also in Europe. The organization is headquartered at the Palacio de Godoy, a historical building located at the Plaza Marina Española. Official Master in Constitutional Law (Master Oficial en Derecho Constitucional) At present, the CEPC with the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, offers an official master adjusted to the high standards of (EEES), this postgraduate study has a great national and international reputation, with high academic qualities and high research orientation, supported by professors with great impact in the Spanish-speaking world, in addi ...
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Casa De Velázquez
The ''Casa de Velázquez'' is a French school in Spain modelled on the Villa Médicis in Rome, and Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algeria.''75 aniversario de la Casa de Velázquez. Memoria gráfica 1928-2003'', Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, 2006, 182 p. - accompanied by a CD of works by composers resident at the Casa de Velázquez: Thierry Machuel, Philippe Hersant, Jean-Philippe Bec, Jean-Louis Florentz, interpreted by the vocal ensemble Soli-Tutti, sous la under the direction of Denis Gautheyrie 8-49555-596-4 Like the ''Prix de Rome'' bursary for residence at the Villa Médicis and the defunct ''Abd-el-Tif prize, Prix Abd-el-Tif'' bursary for residence at the Villa Abd-el-Tif, bursaries are awarded. The idea for a similar villa in Spain was raised in 1916 by the composer Charles-Marie Widor who at the time was secretary of the ''Académie des Beaux-Arts'' of ''the Institut de France''. The idea met with support of Alfonso XIII who himself selected a site in Madrid which was ceded to France. ...
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Rodrigo Figueroa Y Torres
Rodrigo Figueroa y Torres (24 October 1866 – 1 June 1929) was a Spanish politician during the Restoration and Civil Governor of Madrid in 1909. He studied medicine, but he is best known for being a politician and a wide-ranging artist, standing out especially as a sculptor, winning various mentions in Fine Arts Exhibitions. He was thus a truly versatile person, a doctor interested in sculpture, painting, diplomacy, and even held the noble title of . Early and personal life Rodrigo Figueroa y Torres was born in Madrid on 24 October 1866, as the son of Ignacio Figueroa y Mendieta, and the younger brother of José (Viscount of Irueste), Gonzalo, and Álvaro (the Count of Romanones). He was part of one of the most influential families in Spain during the Restoration period. In 1893, his mother gave him the title of Marquis of Tovar, which his friend King Alfonso XIII converted into a Duchy of Spain in 1906. Figueroa was thus the first Duke of Tovar, created by Royal Decree in 19 ...
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Gonzalo Figueroa Y Torres
Gonzalo Figueroa y Torres (19 August 1861 – 18 October 1921) was a Spanish politician of the Restoration, and Mayor of Madrid between 1904 and 1905. He held noble titles such as ''Count of Mejorada del Campo'' and ''Duke of Las Torres''. He is best known for being the very first Spanish representative in the International Olympic Committee and as the fundamental head behind the foundation of the Spanish Olympic Committee in 1912. Early life He was born in Madrid on 19 August 1861, as the son of Ignacio Figueroa y Mendieta, and the brother of Álvaro (the Count of Romanones), José Figueroa y Torres (Viscount of Irueste) and Rodrigo (Duke of Tovar). He was part of one of the most influential families in Spain during the Restoration period. Political career He premiered as a deputy in the Cortes for Baeza in the 1891 Spanish general election. He was senator for the province of Guadalajara in two legislatures (1896–1898 and 1898–1899) and, from 1899, a senator for life, h ...
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Álvaro De Figueroa, 1st Count Of Romanones
Álvaro de Figueroa y Torres, 1st Count of Romanones (9 August 1863 – 11 October 1950) was a Spanish politician and businessman. He served as Prime Minister of Spain, Prime Minister three times between 1912 and 1918, President of the Senate of Spain, president of the Senate, president of the Congress of Deputies, Mayor of Madrid and many times as cabinet minister. He belonged to the Liberal Party (Spain, 1880), Liberal Party. Romanones, who built an extensive political network, exerted a tight control on the political life of the province of Guadalajara during much of the Restoration (Spain), Restoration period. He also was a prolific writer, authoring a number of history essays. Biography Early life Born on 15 August 1863 in the Casa de Cisneros (Madrid), Casa de Cisneros, at the Madrid's Plaza de la Villa, he was son of Ignacio Figueroa y Mendieta (a millionaire who had inherited a fortune from the mining companies of his father) and Ana de Torres y Romo (an aristocrat, daug ...
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