Contemporary history of Spain

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The contemporary history of Spain is the historiographical discipline and the historical period of Spanish history that corresponds to the Contemporary Age in universal history. However, conventionally, Spanish historiography tends to consider as an initial milestone not the French Revolution, nor the Independence of the United States or the English Industrial Revolution, but a decisive local event: the beginning of the Spanish War of Independence (1808).^[1]