Athenaeum of Madrid, Madrid (Spain)
In 2023 it commemorates the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of the First Spanish Republic. On April 11, 1873, the Spanish Cortes, meeting in the National Assembly, proclaimed the First Republic, hours after the resignation from the throne of King Amadeus I of Savoy. With 258 votes in favour and 32 against, that parliamentary session marked the beginning of a brief and unstable period, in which the Spanish republicans tried to combine democracy, republic and federalism.
Coordinated by Manuel Suarez Cortina, and organized by the SEMD, the Ateneo de Madrid has programmed a cycle of conferences with eminent history teachers who have remembered facts, characters and places marked by this historical milestone.
Inaugurated by the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez, on June 19 and 20, the Athenaeum has been the scene of a polyhedral exhibition of the results of the investigations of different professors and university professors. On Monday afternoon, Manuel Suárez Cortina, Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History (University of Cantabria), "The First Republic as historical experience", Ángel Duarte Montserrat, Professor of Contemporary History (University of Córdoba), "Four presidents, four republics", and Andrés Hoyo Aparicio, Full Professor of Contemporary History (University of Cantabria), "The First Republic, the public deficit and the international economic crisis" took part.
On Tuesday, June 20, the conference was conducted by Eduardo González Calleja, Professor of Contemporary History. Carlos III University, "A Republic at War", and Pilar Salomón Chéliz, Full Professor of Contemporary History (University of Zaragoza), "Republican secularism and the religious question".