Los coleccionables del Museo Zumalakarregi

Proclamation of the Constitution of Cadiz, 1812 which aimed to put an end to the absolute rule of the monarchy and the ancien régime. A symbol of Spanish liberalism, the Constitution proclaimed the abolition of the Inquisition and the establishment of the division of powers, thereby limiting the absolute power of the monarchy. Miguel Antonio Zumalacárregui, minister for Gipuzkoa, presided over the assembly that decided on the aforementioned abolition of the Inquisition.

The British writer, Jane Austen, wrote her first novel, Sense and Sensibility. Her meticulous stories deal 1811 with the morality and behaviour of the era with a delicate sense of irony, and have remained popular for generations.

The discovery of the food canning process. 1812 Its inventor, a British engineer, showed this new method of processing food to the British army, which immediately recognised the important contribution it could make to the supply of provisions to the battlefield.

The first ever plastic surgery operation was carried out on a British army officer, who had lost his nose as the result of an 1814 accident involving mercury. Medicine progressed in leaps and bounds, and four years later the first blood transfusion was carried out.

Following a siege and in reprisal 1813 for the harsh resistance of the French army, the Allied troops (British, Portuguese and Spanish) destroyed almost the entire city of San Sebastián. The civil population suffered greatly from the violence unleashed by their supposed liberators.