1823 in Spain
Events in the year 1823 in Spain.
Incumbents
Events
- January 23 - secret treaty signed at Verona, Italy, allowing French intervention in Spain to restore Ferdinand VII to absolute rule
- January 28 - King Louis XVIII of France announces creation of the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
- February - French legislature, controlled by Ultra-Royalists vote to support the intervention
- April 6 - French cross the river Bidasoa on the Franco-Spanish border
- April 7 - French troops enter Spain mostly unopposed
- May 24 - French Troops take Madrid
- August 31 - Spanish liberal revolutionaries suffer a major defeat against the French at the Battle of Trocadero
- September 23 - Cadiz falls to the French, ending the liberal revolution and restoring Ferdinand VII to the throne
Deaths
- November 7 - Rafael del Riego, liberal politician, general and revolutionary; executed by Ferdinand VII for leading the liberal revolution against him