Rafael del Riego y Flórez (7 April 1784 – 7 November 1823) was a Spanish general and liberal politician, who played a key role in the establishment of...

"Himno de Riego" ("Anthem of Riego") is a song dating from the Trienio Liberal (1820–1823) of Spain and named in honour of Colonel Rafael del Riego, a figure...

rejected the liberal constitution of 1812. A revolt in 1820 led by Rafael del Riego forced him to restore the constitution, starting the Liberal Triennium...

pay, bad food and poor quarters, mutinied under the leadership of Rafael del Riego. Pledging fealty to the 1812 Constitution, they seized their commander...

at Cádiz mutinied before they were shipped to the Americas. Led by Rafael del Riego, the conspirators seized their commander and led their army around...

the fall of Rafael del Riego in 1823, Goya felt it necessary to leave the country and move to Bordeaux. The Quinta de Goya, or Quinta del Sordo, in a...

Spain Severo Ochoa, 1959 Nobel Prize winner for physiology or medicine Rafael del Riego, general and liberal politician Carmen Polo, wife of Spanish dictator...

that had fought in the Peruvian War of Independence. The rebellion of Rafael del Riego of 1820 in Spain, made the threat of Spanish invasion of the Río de...

to humiliate the absolutists after the military pronunciamiento of Rafael del Riego in Cabezas de San Juan, at the beginning of the period known as Trienio...

mutinied in Cadiz. This was the same city where a half-century before, Rafael del Riego had launched his coup against Isabella's father, Ferdinand VII. When...

Benasque, was so enjoyed by Rafael del Riego on a visit to the town that he ordered it to be copied resulting in the "Hymn of Riego". Typical Aragonese instruments...

independence movements in 1820 once Ferdinand was forced by Colonel Rafael del Riego to restore the 1812 constitution. On 15 September 1821, leading Central...

his surrender on 4 August. At Jaén, he defeated the final columns of Rafael Riego, who was captured by the Absolutists on 15 September and hanged in Madrid...

five years after Ferdinand's restoration. Finally on 1 January 1820 Rafael del Riego, Antonio Quiroga and other officers initiated a mutiny of army officers...

but was later betrayed. Spain: A pronunciamiento by Spanish liberal Rafael del Riego forced the restoration of the Spanish Constitution of 1812, and began...

Carbonari revolts collapsed and their leaders fled into exile. Colonel Rafael del Riego led a large part of the Spanish army in a mutiny, demanding that the...

known as the Anarchy of the year XX. The rebellion of Spanish general Rafael del Riego and an outbreak of yellow fever in the punitive expedition organized...

policies led to a series of military coups that culminated in Col. Rafael del Riego forcing him to accept a more liberal constitution from 1820–1823, the...

the pro-independence nuclei was not solid enough, especially after Rafael del Riego's pronouncement in Cabezas de San Juan (January 1820), which diverted...

Spain pronounced themselves in sympathy with the revolters, led by Rafael del Riego, Ferdinand was forced to accept the liberal Constitution of 1812. This...

Granada. In Spain in 1820, liberal sections of the military under Rafael del Riego established a constitutional monarchy, which precluded new Spanish...

Spanish generals, with the exception of Espoz and Mina (and Torrijos and Rafael del Riego, arrested in mid-September and accused of "atrocious crimes"). In 1834...

of Spain into provinces. After the uprising led by liberal general Rafael del Riego of 1820 led to the Trienio Liberal (three years of government by the...

several works, as well as writing the lyrics to the Himno de Riego, in honour of Rafael del Riego, which was declared the national anthem of Spain in 1822...

that followed Ferdinand's return to the throne on 1 January 1820, Rafael del Riego initiated an army revolt with the intent of restoring the 1812 Constitution...

History of the Spanish language Rafael Lapesa Melgar Archive (Biblioteca Valenciana) Miquel Ángel Pérez Riego. "Rafael Lapesa (1908-2001)", in: Asociación...

aide de camp to the king. O'Donoju was a friend of the liberal rebel Rafael del Riego. In 1820, at the time of the re-establishment of the Spanish Constitution...

1820 faced a rebellion in favour of a constitutional monarchy, led by Rafael del Riego y Nuñez. The King was captured and detained at Cádiz, the seat of the...

Nariño was freed from imprisonment in 1821, following the revolt of Rafael del Riego, and returned to his home country, Colombia, now independent from Spain...

at A Coruña. 1820: A successful liberal pronunciamiento was led by Rafael del Riego, leading to the start of the Trienio Liberal. 1822: An absolutist coup...