Revolution of Maria da Fonte

With the uprising of Maria da Fonte a beginning in the spring of 1846 popular uprising is known in Portuguese history, which was directed primarily against the unpopular and dictatorial ruling government of the Marquis of Tomar. Portugal was fragmented at this time politically between supporters of the more left-wing and conservative Setembristen Cartisten, the latter had forcibly seized power in 1842 and ruled the country with the support of Queen dictatorial. A number of measures of cartistischen government ( to bury new conscription and tax laws that ban dead in church buildings) ultimately led to the uprising, whose top is a peasant woman named Mary from the place Fonte Arcada put that eventually the rebellion was her name.

The rebellion began in the north and spread rapidly in the rest of the country. Mary II of England, frightened by the extent of the rebellion, was forced to dismiss her favorite Tomar on May 20, 1846 and be replaced by the more liberal Duke of Palmela, which initially led to a fading of the uprising. When the Queen Palmela but then coup- like replaced by the conservative Duke of Saldanha on October 6, 1846, the rebellion flared up again and expanded into a civil war (Liberal opposition government in Porto ), which the Conservatives only thanks to foreign troops (Spain, United Kingdom could ) win.

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