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French Revolution. The village occupies the Bastille.
The French Revolution was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. -
Beginning of the war of independence in Spain.
The Peninsular War was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. -
The defeat of Waterloo marks the end of Napoleon's military power
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition. -
The history of rail transport in Spain begins in the 19th century. In 1848, a railway line between Barcelona and Mataró was inaugurated
The history of rail transport in Spain begins in the 19th century. In 1848, a railway line between Barcelona and Mataró. -
The Eiffel Tower, a sample of the iron architecture of the s.XIX.
The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose -
Picasso begins a new pictorial style, Cubism.
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. It was create by Picasso -
World War I ends with more than 12 million dead. 1914-1918
World War I or the First World War, was a major global conflict that began on 28 July 1914 and ended on 11 November 1918. It's belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting taking place across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia. -
The Russian Revolution establishes a socialist regime (USSR).
The Soviet Union, (USSR) was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. -
Gandhi organizes the first civil disobedience campaign.
The Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India. Britain's Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple in the Indian diet. -
Nazism begins in Germany.
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a dictatorship. -
Civil war in Spain. 1936-1939
The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. -
World War II. 1939-1935
World War II was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. -
Military dictatorship of Francisco Franco in Spain. 1939-1975
Francoist Spain was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain with the title Caudillo. After his death in 1975, Spain transitioned into a democracy.
During this time period, Spain was officially known as the Spanish State -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs explode.
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people. -
The People's Republic of China is proclaimed, with Mao (president).
The founding of the People's Republic of China was formally proclaimed by Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party on October 1, 1949. -
Triumph of the Cuban Revolution with Fidel Castro.
The Cuban communist revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro took part in the Cuban Revolution from 1953 to 1959. Following on from his early life, Castro decided to fight for the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's military junta by founding a paramilitary organization, "The Movement". In July 1953, they launched a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, during which many militants were killed and Castro was arrested. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall.
The fall of the Berlin Wall, on 9 November, 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and one of the series of events that started the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, preceded by the Solidarity Movement in Poland. -
Attack on the Twin Towers in New York.
The Twin Towers was a proposed twin-towered skyscraper complex which would have been located at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan, New York City. The proposed complex would have replaced the former Twin Towers of the World Trade Center destroyed in the September 11 attacks, restoring the skyline of the city to its former state. -
My first year on school
That was my first year of school. It started in 2010 when I was 3 years old. It was at the La Llàntia school -
Beginning of the civil war in Syria.
The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided civil war in Syria fought between the Syrian Arab Republic led by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. -
Refugee crisis in Europe.
The 2015 European migrant crisis was a period of significantly increased movement of refugees and migrants into Europe in 2015. 1.3 million people came to the continent to request asylum, the most in a single year since World War II. -
World Pandemic (Covid-19). 2020-2021
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified from an outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. -
War in Ukraine
The Russo-Ukrainian War has been ongoing between Russia and Ukraine since February 2014.