2025The Cantonal Revolution of Cartagena - Set

The so-called Cantonal Revolution and its political significance were a source of controversy and debate from its very beginning. In July 1873, in the midst of the crisis of the newly formed First Spanish Republic, beset by the Third Carlist War, the insurrection in Cuba, and the conspiracies of supporters of the Bourbon restoration, a group of "intransigent" federal deputies decided to proclaim the Federal Republic "from below," outside the Constituent Assembly and without waiting for the approval of the new federal constitution.