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| 1805 |
| | | Horatio Nelson dies on the deck of the Victory after winning the battle of Trafalgar | |
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| 1808 |
| | | A French army under Joachim Murat advances on Madrid, causing the Spanish royal family to flee | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Napoleon transfers his brother Joseph Bonaparte from the throne of Naples to that of Spain | |
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| 1808 |
| | | The French capture of Madrid provokes a British response and the resulting Peninsular War | |
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| 1808 |
| | | An uprising in Madrid, brutally put down by the French, is vividly depicted by the Spanish painter Goya | |
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| 1809 |
| | | John Moore dies at Corunna but his army escapes from Spain and gets back to England | |
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| 1810 |
| | | The reforming party in Spain become known as the Liberales, in the first political use of the term Liberal | |
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| 1810 |
| | | The Spanish Cortes flees from the renewed French invasion and establishes itself in Cadiz | |
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| 1812 |
| | | The Spanish Cortes in Cadiz produces a strikingly liberal new constitution for Spain | |
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| 1813 |
| | | Wellington defeats Napoleon's brother Joseph at Vitoria, and captures his valuable baggage train | |
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