1792 Dismissal of Florida-Blanca. Manuel de Godoy, the queen’s favourite, becomes supreme. The Spanish government intercedes for Louis XVI.
1793 Execution of Louis XVI. Spain joins the First Coalition against France. Failure of the invasion of France.
1794 The Spaniards are defeated with the loss of nine thousand men and surrender Figueras. The French invade Spain.
1795 Treaty of Bâle. Spain surrenders her territory in Santo Domingo. The French evacuate Spain.
1796 Alliance between France and Spain in the treaty of San Ildefonso. Spain joins
1797 the war against England, and her fleet is defeated in the battle of Cape St. Vincent.
1800 Louisiana ceded to France.
Nineteenth Century
1801 Successful invasion of Portugal. Portugal agrees to exclude English forces from her ports. Napoleon exacts a large payment from Portugal and insists on Spain’s ceding Trinidad to England.
1803 Napoleon compels Spain to pay a large subsidy for the war with England and to undertake to secure Portuguese neutrality.