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Alfonso XII of Spain

1857 - 1885

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Alfonso XII (Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo de Borbón y Borbón; 28 November 1857 – 25 November 1885), also known as El Pacificador (Spanish: the Peacemaker), was King of Spain from 29 December 1874 to his death in 1885. After the Glorious Revolution of 1868 deposed his mother Isabella II from the throne, Alfonso studied in Austria and France. His mother abdicated in his favour in 1870, and he returned to Spain as king in 1874 following a military coup against the First Spanish Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfonso XII of Spain has received more than 1,140,947 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Alfonso XII of Spain is the 838th most popular politician (up from 939th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Spain (up from 75th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Spanish Politician.

Alfonso XII of Spain is most famous for being the King of Spain from 1875-1885. He was born in 1857 and died in 1885.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alfonso XII of Spain ranks 838 out of 19,576. Before him are Nikephoros I, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, Childeric III, Chlothar I, Raymond Poincaré, and Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria. After him are Hezekiah, Cassander, Halimah Yacob, Imad ad-Din Zengi, Aurangzeb, and Shoshenq I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Alfonso XII of Spain ranks 10. Before him are Heinrich Hertz, Edward Elgar, Clara Zetkin, Joseph Conrad, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, and Karl Adolph Gjellerup. After him are Henrik Pontoppidan, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, William Howard Taft, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Alfred Binet, and Theo van Gogh. Among people deceased in 1885, Alfonso XII of Spain ranks 3. Before him are Victor Hugo, and Ulysses S. Grant. After him are Muhammad Ahmad, Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, Carl Spitzweg, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Charles George Gordon, Iwasaki Yatarō, Rosalía de Castro, and L'Inconnue de la Seine.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Alfonso XII of Spain ranks 68 out of 3,355. Before him are Eugénie de Montijo (1826), Quintilian (35), Josep Borrell (1947), Ferdinand VII of Spain (1784), Abbas ibn Firnas (810), and Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600). After him are Bartolomé de las Casas (1484), Luis Aragonés (1938), Alfonso X of Castile (1221), Plácido Domingo (1941), Lucan (39), and Amancio Ortega (1936).

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Among POLITICIANS In Spain

Among politicians born in Spain, Alfonso XII of Spain ranks 20. Before him are Charles III of Spain (1716), Arcadius (377), Isabella II of Spain (1830), Abd al-Rahman III (889), Josep Borrell (1947), and Ferdinand VII of Spain (1784). After him are Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba (1507), Roderic (688), Ferdinand VI of Spain (1713), Muhammad XII of Granada (1459), Alfonso VI of León and Castile (1040), and Magnus Maximus (335).

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