1823 in Spain

Events in the year 1823 in Spain.

Incumbents

 * King: Ferdinand VII
 * Prime Minister: Víctor Damián Sáez (starting 19 November)

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 (b. 1784)