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TIL in 1873, after reigning for 2 years, having to deal with Spanish politics, republican conspiracies, Carlist uprisings, separatism in Cuba, same-party disputes, fugitive governments and assassination attempts the king of Spain abdicated and proclaimed Spanish people to be "Ungovernable".

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