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French Revolution
The village occupies the Bastille. The French Revolution was a period of radical political and social change in France, that began with the Estates General of 1789 and end with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. -
Beginning of the war of independence in Spain.
The war of independence in Spain 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. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence. -
The defeat of Waterloo marks the end of Napoleon's military power
At Waterloo in Belgium, Napoleon Bonaparte suffered defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington, postman of the Napoleonic era of European history. -
First steam locomotive in the Iberian Peninsula.
The history of rail transport in Spain begins in the 19th century. In 1848 a railway line between Barcelona and Mataró was inaugurated, although in 1837 a line had already been opened in Cuba (then a Spanish province) linking Havana and Bejucal. In 1852 the first narrow gauge line was built, in 1863 a line reached the Portuguese border. By 1864 the Madrid-Irun line had been opened and the French border was reached. -
The Eiffel Tower, a sample of the iron architecture of the s.XIX
The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. -
Picasso begins a new pictorial style, Cubism.
Cubism was a revolutionary new art to represent reality invented around 1907-08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought together different viewpoints of subjects (usually objects or figures) in the same image, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstract. -
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World War I ends with more than 12 million dead
World War I was a major global conflict that began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918. Known to contemporaries as the "Great War," its participants included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, The United States and the Ottoman Empire, with struggles in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Asia. New technology, including the recent invention of the airplane, trench warfare, and especially chemical weapons made it one of the deadliest conflicts in history. -
The Russian Revolution establishes a socialist regime (USSR).
In the half of XIX century, Russia entered a phase of internal crisis that in 1917 would end in a revolution. Its causes were not economic or social but political and cultural. In stability, it excluded the population from participation in the government. At the same time, to maintain its status as a great power, it promoted industrial development and higher education. The result was a tension between the government and society, especially in its element known as the intelligentsia. -
Gandhi organizes the first civil disobedience campaign.
Gandhi leads the Salt March against the British monopoly in India. With the Salt March, Mahatma Gandhi started a civil disobedience movement to denounce colonial rule over this food. It would be the turning point towards independence from the United Kingdom. -
Nazism begins in Germany.
National Socialism, commonly shortened to Nazism, was the far-right ideology of the regime that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 with Adolf Hitler's National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in power. -
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Civil war in Spain.
The Spanish Civil War was a military conflict and an economic crisis that broke out in Spain after the failure of the 1936 coup d'état. The civil war that would end on Saturday, April 1, 1939 with the last part of the war signed by Francisco Franco, declaring his victory and establishing a dictatorship that would last until his death on Thursday, November 20, 1975. -
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World War II
World War II was a global military conflict between 1939 to 1945. The beginning of the conflict is usually placed on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland, when Hitler decided to incorporate one of his most delicate claims. : the Polish Corridor, which involved the invasion of the western half of Poland; the eastern half, together with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union, while Finland managed to maintain its independence from the Soviets. -
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Military dictatorship of Francisco Franco in Spain.
The dictatorship of Francisco Franco, was the period of the contemporary history of Spain corresponding to the exercise by General Francisco Franco Bahamonde of the Head of State, that is, from the end of the civil war in 1939 until his death and succession in 1975. Its broad temporal dimension and Franco's total identification with the regime itself means that the expression Franco's era is also often used to designate it. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs explode.
The United States detonated two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. The two attacks killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.
In the final year of World War II, the Allies prepared for a costly invasion of mainland Japan. This undertaking was preceded by a conventional and firebombing campaign that devastated 64 Japanese cities. -
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, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), on October 1, 1949 at 3:00 p.m. m. in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, now Beijing (formerly Beiping). the new capital of China. -
Triumph of the Cuban Revolution with Fidel Castro.
On January 1, 1959, one of the most important stages of the Cuban Revolution ended, giving way to the dictator Fulgencio Batista and establishing the revolutionary government, headed by Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Ché" Guevara. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall.
On November 9, 1989, peacefully and without shedding blood or firing a gun, the German population brought down the Berlin Wall. This structure divided the German capital for almost three decades. The fall of the Berlin Wall is the event that materially marks the end of a period of isolation for East Germany. -
Attack on the Twin Towers in New York.
The attacks of September 11, 2001, were four suicide terrorist attacks committed in the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, by the militant Islamic terrorist group Al Qaeda. That morning, four commercial airliners traveling from the northeastern United States to Los Angeles and San Francisco were hijacked mid-flight by 19 Al Qaeda terrorists. Two planes were destined for the twin towers, another for the pentagon, and the last for the white house or the capitol. -
My parents wedding
On March 2, 2011, when I was 3 years old, my parents got married, it was a spectacular day and one of the best days of my life. -
Beginning of the civil war in Syria.
In March 2011, the government of Syria, led by Pres. Bashar al-Assad, faced a challenge, when pro-democracy protests broke out across the country. The protesters demanded an end to the authoritarian practices of the Assad regime, which assumed the presidency in 1971. The Syrian government used violence to suppress the demonstrations, making extensive use of police, military and paramilitary forces. By 2012 the conflict had turned into a civil war. -
My brothers birth.
On January 20, 2014, my brother was born in the Mataró hospital. -
Refugee crisis in Europe
The 2015 European migration crisis, also known internationally as the Syrian refugee crisis, was a period of significant increase in the movement of refugees and migrants to Europe in 2015, when 1.3 million people arrived on the continent to apply for asylum, the the most in a single year since World War II. -
World Pandemic (Covid-19).
It is a currently ongoing pandemic derived from the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It was initially called "Wuhan pneumonia", since the first cases were identified in December 2019 in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a public health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020 and recognized it as a pandemic on March 11, 2020, when it reported that there were 4,291 deaths and 118,000 cases in 114 countries. -
War in Ukraine.
It is a large-scale ongoing war that began on February 24, 2022 and is part of the Russo-Ukrainian war that began in 2014. Russia wants to declare the Ukrainian territory as Russian territory. -
Spain cup of Judo.
On May 23, 2022, I participated in the Judo Cadet Championship of Spain in which I was 3rd in Spain, it was one of the most important moments of my life.