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Italian anarchist Michele Angiolillo assassinated Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo on 8 August 1897, in Gipuzkoa. The head of government had been vacationing in the Santa Águeda spa . The assassin was immediately arrested, tried, and executed. He justified the murder as revenge for torture during the Montjuic trial.

Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (äntô´nyō kä´nōväs dĕl kästē´lyō), 1828–97, Spanish conservative politician, historian, and man of letters. During Spain's recurrent political crises from 1868 to 1874, he took the lead in advocating the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy.

Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (8 February 1828 – 8 August 1897) was a Spanish politician and historian known principally for serving six terms as Prime Minister and his overarching role as "architect" of the regime that ensued with the 1874 restoration of the Bourbon monarchy.

(1828–97). The Spanish statesman Antonio Cánovas del Castillo was largely responsible for bringing about the restoration of Spain’s Bourbon dynasty in 1875 (see House of Bourbon). He was several times Conservative prime minister of Spain and was author of the constitution of 1876.

Portrait of Cánovas del Castillo. The portrait is currently in the Palacio del Senado de España. Haverford Special Collections houses a pair of rare literary treasures: copies of the first and second parts of Cervantes’ El Ingenioso Hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha.