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| 1875 |
| | The return to Spain of Isabella's son, as Alfonso XII, offers an end to forty years of royal feuding | |
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| 1878 |
| | The Ten Years' War ends in Cuba, with Spain promising extensive reforms including the abolition of slavery | |
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| 1879 |
| | The young daughter of an amateur archaeologist discovers the first known example of prehistoric art, in a cave at Altamira in Spain | |
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| 1883 |
| | Antoni Gaudí begins a life-long commitment to the building of a modern cathedral in Barcelona, El Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia | |
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| 1884 |
| | Spain begins to colonize the Western Sahara, subsequently known as the Spanish Sahara | |
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| 1894 |
| | The Basque Nationalist Party is founded, beginning more than a century of separatist unrest in northwest Spain | |
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| 1897 |
| | The Spanish governor in Cuba is recalled to Spain, for pioneering the concept of the concentration camp | |
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| 1898 |
| | The Philippines declare independence from the colonial power, Spain, with whom they are at war | |
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| 1898 |
| | In the Treaty of Paris, ending the Spanish-American War, Spain cedes Puerto Rico and Cuba to the USA | |
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| 1898 |
| | The agreement ending the Spanish-American War includes Spain selling the Philippines to the USA for a payment of $20 million | |
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