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French Revolution
The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, that convulsed France and, by extension of its implications, other European nations that faced supporters and opponents of the system known as the Old Regime. -
Beginning of the war of independence in Spain.
The Spanish War of Independence was a military conflict that took place between 1808 and 1814 within the context of the Napoleonic Wars, which pitted the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal against the First French Empire. -
The defeat of Waterloo marks the end of Napoleon's military power
Through the Napoleonic Wars, he expanded his empire across western and central Europe. The 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.
The Mataró locomotive, popularly known as La Mataró, was the first steam locomotive to be operated in the territory of the Iberian Peninsula, specifically making the first section of the Barcelona-Mataró line. -
The Eiffel Tower, a sample of the iron architecture of the s.XIX.
The Eiffel Tower, initially called Tour de 300 metres, is a puddled iron structure initially designed by civil engineers Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier. -
Picasso begins a new pictorial style, Cubism.
Cubism was the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. It was born in 1907 and finished in 1914 by the painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. -
World War I ends with more than 12 million dead.
World War I, formerly called the Great War, was a warlike confrontation centered in Europe that began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918, when Germany accepted the terms of the armistice. -
The Russian Revolution establishes a socialist regime (USSR).
The Russian Revolution of October 1917 divided the 20th century. He promised to transform the world and end injustice but ended up becoming a regime destined to collapse due to its obsolescence. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the first country in the world to experience "real socialism." -
Gandhi organizes the first civil disobedience campaign.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was a politician, thinker and main promoter of Indian nationalism, who on August 1, 1920 undertook a campaign of civil disobedience that catapulted India's independence from British rule. -
Nazism begins in Germany.
Nazi Terror Begins After Adolf Hitler took office as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, he soon began turning the German government into a one-party dictatorship and organizing the police power that was necessary to enforce Nazi policies. -
Civil war in Spain.
The Civil War was one of the hardest wars that are remembered in Spain. After the victory of General Franco and the nationalist side, a dictatorship began in the country that lasted almost 40 years, from 1936 to 1975, the year in which the Spanish dictator died. -
Military dictatorship of Francisco Franco in Spain.
Francisco Franco was a general and the leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); thereafter he was the head of the government of Spain until 1973 and the head of state until his death in 1975. -
World War II.
Germany then invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, starting World War II in Europe. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs explode.
With the launching of the atomic bombs of Nagasaki and Hiroshima on the civilian population, the world of war changed forever. -
The People's Republic of China is proclaimed, with Mao (president).
On October 1, 1949, at the end of the Chinese civil war, when the Kuomintang nationalists already controlled only a few cities in the south, the leader of the Communist Party of China Mao Tse Tung proclaimed the People's Republic of China from the Tiananmen Gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing. -
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. -
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. -
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, a third plane hit the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. -
Beginning of the civil war in Syria.
The Syrian civil war is an armed conflict that began in Syria after the 2011 anti-government protests. These protests led to clashes between the country's Armed Forces and the so-called Syrian opposition, which includes several terrorist groups. -
Refugee crisis in Europe
The refugee crisis that Europe has experienced in 2015 has been the largest displacement of refugees, asylum seekers, vulnerable people and economic migrants that the European Union has experienced since the Second World War. -
World Pandemic (Covid-19).
The COVID-19 epidemic was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the WHO on January 30, 2020. The now characterization of a pandemic means that the epidemic has spread across several countries, continents or the entire world, and that affects a large number of people. -
My confirmation
This picture is in the church when I was doing my confirmartion with my family. -
War in Ukraine
On January 14, 2022, the US warns that Russia is planning a "false flag attack": a sabotage against its forces in eastern Ukraine to attribute it to kyiv and justify an invasion. The previous morning, a massive cyber attack disabled the Ukrainian government's computer system for hours.