[1] Founded by Eduardo Gasset y Artime [es], it was one of the first newspapers in Spain published by a company as opposed to a political party.

[3] By 1890 it had become one of the main Spanish newspapers and, according to the publication itself, "it was sold even in the smallest villages" and "in the kiosks of the boulevards of Paris, in Marseille, Bordeaux, Nice, Rome, Naples, London and Buenos Aires".

[3] It was the newspaper with the greatest circulation and influence during the regency of Maria Christina of Austria, but it began to lose prestige due to its political ups and downs, and especially after the appointment of its director, Rafael Gasset Chinchilla, as Minister of Public Works for Francisco Silvela in 1900.

Of the three newspapers that made up the group, El Imparcial was the one located further to the right and with a more bourgeois audience, fearful of labor movements and new nationalisms.

[7] The Gasset family had conversations with the publisher and businessman Nicolás María de Urgoiti, although these did not give any results.