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Fall of the roman empire
Finally, in 476, the Germanic leader Odoacer staged a revolt and deposed Emperor Romulus Augustulus. From then on, no Roman emperor would ever again rule from a post in Italy, leading many to cite 476 as the year the Western Empire suffered its death blow. -
French revolution.The village occupies the castle
The French Revolution began in 1789 and lasted until 1794. King Louis XVI needed more money, but had failed to raise more taxes when he had called a meeting of the Estates General. This instead turned into a protest about conditions in France. -
Beginning of the war of independence in Spain
The war of indepence in Spain started because in the peninsula war,a french king invaded Spain and the spanish people reinvaded it. -
The defeat of Waterloo marks the end of Napoleon's military power
The defeat of Napoleon in the battle of Waterloo against the Prussians was the start of Napoleon's spiral of misfortune. -
First steam locomotive in the Iberian Peninsula.
The first railway line in the Iberian Peninsula was built in 1848 between Barcelona and Mataró. -
The Eiffel Tower, a sample of the iron architecture of the s.XIX.
The Eiffel Tower was built to be one the main attractions at the Paris World's Fair in 1889 and it was a great industrial advancement of that time. -
Picasso begins a new pictorial style, Cubism.
Cubism.
With Analytical Cubism, Picasso utilized a muted color palette of monochromatic browns, grays, and blacks and chose to convey relatively unemotional subject matters. -
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World War I ends with more than 12 million dead.
World War I, also known as the Great War, began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His murder catapulted into a war across Europe that lasted until 1918. -
The Russian Revolution establishes a socialist regime (USSR).
The Soviet Union had its origins in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Radical leftist revolutionaries overthrew Russia's Czar Nicholas II, ending centuries of Romanov rule. The Bolsheviks established a socialist state in the territory that was once the Russian Empire. -
Gandhi organizes the first civil disobedience campaign.
Mahatma Gandhi's first non-violent satyagraha campaign was in protest against the Transvaal Asiatic Ordinance against local Indians in South Africa. -
Nazism begins in Germany.
It was during the Great Depression that Nazism became popular. After 1929, banks collapsed and businesses shut down, workers lost their jobs and the middle classes were threatened with destitution. In such a situation Nazi propaganda stirred hopes of a better future -
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Civil war in Spain.
The civil war started because troops under the leadership of General Francisco Franco began an uprising against the democratically elected government of Spain. This revolt quickly escalated into a civil war. The Spanish Civil War is sometimes called a prelude to World War II. -
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World War II.
World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war dragged on for six bloody years until the Allies defeated Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945. -
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Military dictatorship of Francisco Franco in Spain.
the Francoist dictatorship, 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. -
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 with the objective of ending the war. -
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 (CCP), on October 1, 1949, at 3:00 pm in Tiananmen Square in Peking, now Beijing (formerly Beiping), the new capital of China. -
Triumph of the Cuban Revolution with Fidel Castro.
Triumph of the Revolution also known as Liberation Day is a celebration in Cuba of the anniversary of the victory of the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959 which established the present government in Cuba. -
first man in the moon
Neil Armstrong
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to step on the moon. He and Aldrin walked around for three hours. They did experiments. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall.
On November 9, 1989, 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 on the Twin Towers in New York.
On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. -
My birth
I was born the 14/5/2007 at 12:42 am in the hospital of Mataró,Spain. -
Beginning of the civil war in Syria.
he 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 and various domestic and foreign forces that oppose both the Syrian government and each other, in varying combinations. -
Refugee crisis in Europe
The year 2015 will be remembered as the year in which an unprecedented number of arrivals of refugees and migrants lead to a crisis in the EU. -
World Pandemic (Covid-19).
The covid 19 pandemic started in Wuhan and soon afected the entire world.For almost 3 months every person had to be at home without going out,it was really strange. -
War in Ukraine
Russia–Ukraine relations are the bilateral ties between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Following the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity in 2014, Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula was occupied by unmarked Russian forces, and later annexed by Russia, while pro-Russia separatists simultaneously engaged the Ukrainian military in an armed conflict for control over eastern Ukraine.