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Contemporary history

By UWUASDF
  • French revolution

    French revolution
    The village occupies the bastille and finished with the reign of Luis XIV that wrote the democratic constitution.
  • Begining of the war of independence in Spain

    Begining of the war of independence in Spain
    The Spanish War of Independence was a war conflict that took place between 1808 and 1814 within the context of the Napoleonic Wars.
  • The defeat of Waterloo marks the end of Napoleon's military power

    The defeat of Waterloo marks the end of Napoleon's military power
    Battle of Waterloo, in which Napoleon's forces were defeated by the Prussians and the British marked the end of his reign and of France's domination in Europe.
  • First steam locomotive in the Iberian Peninsula.

    First steam locomotive in the Iberian Peninsula.
    The first railroad built on the Iberian Peninsula in 1848 ran between Barcelona and Mataró.
  • The Eiffel Tower

    The Eiffel Tower
    It was constructed to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution and to demonstrate France's industrial prowess to the world.
  • Cubism

    Cubism
    Cubism is an early 20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture.
  • The first world war ends

    The first world war ends
    The first world war also named the Great World War was started because of the austrohungary goverment
  • The russian revolution

    The russian revolution
    during the final phase of World War I. It removed Russia from the war and brought about the transformation of the Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics replacing Russia's traditional monarchy with the world's first Communist state.
  • The first civil desobedience campaign

    The first civil desobedience campaign
    Champaran Satyagraha was the first civil disobedience movement which was launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1917. It was done to protest against the injustice meted out to tenant farmers in Champaran district of Bihar.
  • Nacional Socialism begins in Germany

    Nacional Socialism begins in Germany
    Nazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system.
  • Begins the civil war in Spain

    Begins the civil war in Spain
    The Spanish Civil war was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists
  • World War II

    World War II
    World war II started because of Nazism in Germany and involved many countries of the world
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb

    Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb
    While President Truman had hoped for a purely military target, some advisers believed that bombing an urban area might break the fighting will of the Japanese people. Hiroshima was a major port and a military headquarters, and therefore a strategic target.
  • The people's Republic of China is Proclaimed

    The people's Republic of China is Proclaimed
    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, at 3:00 pm in Tiananmen Square in Peking, now Beijing, the new capital of China.
  • Triumph of the Cuban Revolution

    Triumph of the Cuban Revolution
    The Cuban Revolution designates the movement against the government of the dictator Fulgencio Batista by the 26th of July Movement and the establishment of the new Cuban government led by Fidel Castro at the beginning of 1959.
  • Dictatorship of Francisco Franco ends

    Dictatorship of Francisco Franco ends
    His dictatorship's use of forced labor, concentration camps and executions led to between 50,000 and 100,000 deaths
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
  • Attack to Twin Towers in New York

    Attack to Twin Towers in New York
    A plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in New York City's Lower Manhattan at 8:46 a.m. m. Seventeen minutes later, at 9:03 a.m. m., the South Tower of the World Trade Center was hit by United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Begining of the civil war of Syria

    Begining of the civil war of Syria
    The Syrian Civil War is an ongoing violent conflict in Syria between pro-democratic insurgents and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's long-standing dynastic regime.
  • Refugee crisis in Europe

    Refugee crisis in Europe
    A 2017 report concluded that the majority of refugees arriving in Europe were driven by persecution, war and famine. More than 80% of the those arriving in 2015 were from countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, which have all suffered from devastating wars.
  • World Pandemic, Covid-19

    World Pandemic, Covid-19
    In 2020 there was a world pandemic that caused a World Lockdown
  • War of Ukraine

    War of Ukraine
    Russia started invading Ukraine