Humanities activities

In 2021, 100 years had passed from of the tragic death of Prime Minister Eduardo Dato. He was born in 1856 and he died five months shy of his sixty-fifth birthday. His assassination in Madrid, on March 8, 1921, constituted the third assassination — after those of the also Prime Ministers Canovas del Castillo in 1897 and José Canalejas in 1912- of the Restoration, the period that restored the monarchy under Alfonso XII first, and then under the Regency of Maria Christina and the Reign of Alfonso XIII. These three assassinations changed the history of Spain.

The death of Dato escalated dramatically the crisis that the Spanish political system – a constitutional and parliamentary monarchy restored in 1874 that was governed by the Constitution of 1876—was experiencing since the defeat of 1898 and the loss of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and especially since 1917. To analyze these issues, the Ramón Areces Foundation and the Royal Academy of History organized a series of three speakers coordinated by the academic Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpúrua.

• Interview with Michael Sandel
• Military history of Spain
• The contributions of jew, arab and spanish cultures to modern science
• Meetings to Deliberate with the College of Emeritus
• Eduardo Dato And The Spain Of Alfonso XIII

• Cultural Profile of Madrid in the 20th Century
• Spanish cultural heritage: a treasure within everyone's reach
• European breakups: Two contemporary historical examples
• Contemporary revolutions that changed the world
• The battle that made the hero: Pensacola and Bernardo de Gálvez