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| 1800 | Rule of Louisiana Spain Charles IV |  |
| Louisiana Cedes Louis iana to France |
| 1805 | Battle of Trafalgar Spain Charles IV | |
| Trafalgar The Spanish fleet is destroyed |
| 1807 | Diplomacy Spain Charles IV | |
| Makes a secret treaty with Napoleon |
| Nov Napoleon sends an army into Spain under Jean-Andoche Junot to invade Portugal, after the refusal of Prince Regent John VI to join the Continental System |
| Makes a secret treaty with Napoleon |
| 1808 | Abdication Spain Charles IV | |
| Charles IV is forced to abdicate |
| 1st May Abdicates in favour of Joseph Bonaparte |
| 1808 | Abdication Spain Ferdinand VII | |
| Ferdinand VII is forced to abdicateby Napoleon |
| Ferdinand VII is arrested by Napoleon, 1808-14 |
| 1808 | Battle of Espinosa Spain Blake y Joyes, Joaquin | |
| 10th Nov Espinosa A well-coordinated French attack shatters Blake's center & drives his army from the field in a rout |
| Medina del Rio Seco Blake & Cuesta are defeated at Medina del Rio Seco |
| 31st Oct Pancorbo Blake retreats swiftly and in good order, preventing Napoleon's planned envelopment & annihilation of the Spanish flank. |
| 31st Oct Pancorbo Marshal Lefebvre's IV Corps fall upon Blake's 19,000 men at Pancorbo, turning back the hesitant Spanish advance |
| 5th Nov Valmaceda Blake surprises his enemies again when, at Valmaceda, he suddenly turns about & attacks the French vanguard, inflicting a stinging defeat |
| Appointed Commander of the Supreme Junta's Army of Galicia (a force of 43,000 holding the Spanish left wing along the Cantabrian mountains) during the French invasio |
| Appointed Head of the Supreme Junta's Army of Galicia (a force of 43,000 holding the Spanish left wing along the Cantabrian mountains) during the French invasion |
| 1808 | Invasion of Spain Spain Godoy, Manuel de | |
| Corrupt Prime Minister of Spain, his plotting & negligence enables French armies to seize control of the country virtually without opposition |
| 1810 | General Staff Spain Blake y Joyes, Joaquin | |
| Blake helps create the Spanish General Staff, which in the final years of the war restores coherence to the country's military |
| 1811 | Battle of Albuhera Spain Blake y Joyes, Joaquin | |
| 16th May Albuhera Blake fights the French at Albuera alongside William Beresford's Anglo-Portuguese army |
| 16th May Albuhera Spaniards under Blake's command successfully hold the allied flank against the strongest French infantry attack of the war, earning him promotion to Captain General |
| 16th May Albuhera Spaniards under Blake's command successfully hold the allied flank against the strongest French infantry attack of the war, earning him promotion to Captain General |
| Appointed Chief Engineer of the Spanish Royal Army |
| Valencia Blake is transferred to eastern Spain to combat Marshal Suchet's advance on Valencia |
| 1814 | Restoration Spain Ferdinand VII | |
| Ferdinand VII is restored after the fall of Napoleon |
