political assassinations
TRANSCRIPT
- Throught out Spanish history,
there have been many events. Among them, we can stand out murders for political reasons. In this work, we are going to talk to Prim in 1870, until Carrero Blanco in 1973.
INTRODUCTION:
- Juan Prim (1870)- Antonio Cánovas (1897)- José Canalejas (1912)- Eduardo Dato (1921)- Luis Carrero (1973)
MAJOR HISTORICAL FIGURES
- Spanish general- Beacause of different reasons, he offered
the throno to prince Amadeo de Saboya (Italian origin).
- He looked for intensefy the power of the figure of the king.
- He was attacked and died from the wounds the attacked caused him in 1870.
Juan Prim
- Prim's death was close to Paseo de Prado (Madrid) in December 1870. Only one year after acceding his post. When Prim left the Congress, his carriage was assaulted by assassins who were hidden in two rented cars. When Prim's carriage stopped armed bandits got down their cars and broke the carriage's window shooting him several times.
Juan Prim’s murder
- Spanish politician and historian- He was so important in the Bourbon
Restoration- He created 1876 Constitution- He was killed by Michele Angiolillo
Antonio Cánovas
- In 1897, Antonio Cánovas
del Castillo, president of theMinisters, went to take the waters tothe resort of Holy Águeda, in Mondragón, Guipuzcoa, where the assasain was waiting for him, registered with his name and as correspondent of Il Popolo of Italy, the anarchist MicheleAngiolillo, who shot him three times.
Antonio Cánovas’s murder
- Spanish lawyer and politician- He ruled the Liberal Party- He got a universal male suffrage- He was killed by an unknown man in
the street
José Canalejas
- José Canalejas
was going back to his house and stopped at the window of a bookstore. Then, a man approached the President from behind and pulled a gun and resting it on his shoulder made three shots causing him the death.
José Canalejas’s murder
- Conservative Spanish lawyer and
politician- He developed the first labor laws and
created the Ministry of Labour- His presidencies were marked by the
First World War, the crisis of 1917 and the Catalan gangsterism.
- He was murdered by three Catalan anarchists
Eduardo Dato
- He was murdered by three Catalan anarchists in the Independence Square. They knew the president's car travel and chased the vehicle on a motorcycle, then through the window, they shot the president.
Eduardo Dato’s murder
- Spanish writer, soldier and politician- He held various positions during the
dictatorship of Franco. That dictatorship lasted almost 40 years
- He died victim of an ETA attempt
Luis Carrero
Carrero Blanco was on his way home after
hearing mass in the church of San Francisco de Borja in Madrid, and on arriving at Calle Claudio Coello, corner of Maldonado, a huge explosion, caused by members of ETA (José Ignacio Abaitua Gomeza and José Miguel Beñarán Ordeñana) launched the car he was traveling at a height of over twenty feet high causing his death and that of two others
Carrero Blanco’s murder