1823 in Spain

Incumbents

• King: Ferdinand VII
• Prime Minister: Víctor Damián Sáez

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