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The beginning of the 20th century
The 20th century was an exciting and eventful period of history. Militarily, it began with moves such as the US annexation of the Philippines in 1902 and Japan's victory over Russia in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. -
Einstein's theory of relativity
In 1905, Albert Einstein, then an unknown physicist of only 26 years working at the Patent Office in Bern, Switzerland, published his theory of special relativity.Einstein's theory of special relativity is based on two postulates: The first says that all velocities are measured relative to a reference frame. The second states that the speed of light is a constant and is independent of the relative motion of the source. -
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The Cubism
Cubism is considered the first avant-garde, as it broke with the last Renaissance statute in force at the beginning of the 20th century, perspective. In Cubist paintings, traditional perspective disappears. He treated the forms of nature by means of geometrical figures, fragmenting lines and surfaces. Cubism would be in force from 1909 (1907 if we take into account Les Demoiselles d'Avignon as the first point of reference) to 1914, which is considered the end of this stage. -
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Life of Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman was born in New York on 11 May 1918, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, along with Julian Schwinger and Shinichiro Tomonaga, for their contributions to the development of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), the quantum field theory that describes electromagnetic interactions. -
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The Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War was a war fought in Spain from 18 July 1936 to 1 April 1939 between the Republican and Nationalist sides. It was the result of a long process of political, economic and social instability during the Second Spanish Republic. The crisis fuelled the polarisation between left and right, in an international context of growing ideological tensions. The rebels won the war in 1939 and established a military dictatorship that ended with Franco's death in 1975. -
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The Second World War
The Second World War was the most important war of the 20th century. Between 1939 and 1945, Europe was confronted by two great alliances: the Axis powers, with Germany, Italy and Japan as the main protagonists, and the Allies, with the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Russia, among others. -
John F. Kennedy assassination
The Kennedy assassination was a deadly assassination attempt on John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. It took place on 22 November 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was shot twice.
The crime was attributed to Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine who worked at a book depository in downtown Dallas. Oswald was arrested on the evening of the bombing. He was held in a cell at the police station, where he was gunned down two days later by mobster Jack Ruby. -
Death of Elvis Presley
On 16 August 1977, at the age of just 42, his excesses took their final toll, causing his death from a heart attack at his Graceland mansion. A music legend, an icon for many later artists, whose legend lives on, passed away. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall is the name given to a series of buildings that separated East Berliners from West Berliners and West Berlin from the rest of Brandenburg for 28 years.
The fall of the Berlin Wall took place on the night of 9-10 November 1989. It marked the end of the Cold War, but also the birth of a new world order: from bipolar to unipolar. It was also the symbol of a constellation of events that would transform the world. -
The end of the 20th century
The introduction of the euro in 2002 was a major event in European history and a major technical achievement. On 1 January 2002 euro banknotes and coins were put into circulation in 12 countries with a total population of 308 million. This was the biggest cash changeover in history, involving the banking sector, cash-in-transit companies, the retail trade, the vending machine industry and, of course, all citizens.