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French Revolution. The village occupies the Bastille.
It was a fortress in Paris. It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France. It was stormed by a crowd on 14 July 1789, in the French Revolution -
Beginning of the war of independence in Spain.
They rose up against the soldiers on the 2nd May 1808, setting off a day of terrible fighting in the streets.The uprising was stopped but the stories of heroism of the people of Madrid and the cruelty of the French soldiers inspired others to join the fight against Napoleon. This began the War of Independence -
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 (led by the Duke of Wellington), marked the end of his reign and of France's domination in Europe. -
First steam locomotive in the Iberian Peninsula
The first railway line between Cuba and Havana has opened at 1837. In 1848, a railway line between Barcelona and Mataró was inaugurated. 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 reached. -
The Eiffel Tower, a sample of the iron architecture of the s.XIX.
Its construction in 2 years, 2 months and 5 days was a veritable technical and architectural achievement. At the end of the 19th Century it was a demonstration of French engineering personified by Gustave Eiffel, and a defining moment of the industrial era. It was met immediately with tremendous success. -
Picasso begins a new pictorial style, Cubism.
Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted -
World War I ends with more than 12 million dead
More than 9 million soldiers and an estimated 12 million civilians died in the four-year-long conflict, which also left 21 million military men wounded. -
The Russian Revolution establishes a socialist regime (USSR).
The violent revolution marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian Imperial rule. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of czarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
Gandhi organizes the first civil disobedience campaign.
Mahatma Gandhi's first non-violent satyagraha campaign was organized in September 1906 in protest against the Transvaal Asiatic Ordinance against local Indians in South Africa. It was against the Asiatic Ordinance in Transvaal, South Africa. -
Nazism begins in Germany.
The Nazi Terror Begins After Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in January 1933, he moved quickly to turn Germany into a one-party dictatorship and to organize the police power necessary to enforce Nazi policies. -
Civil war in Spain.
Spanish Civil War, (1936–39), military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country, a bloody civil war ensued, fought with great ferocity on both sides. -
World War II.
World War II was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. In a total war directly involving more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. -
Military dictatorship of Francisco Franco in Spain
His dictatorship's use of forced labor, concentration camps and executions led to between 50,000 and 100,000 deaths. -
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, respectively. -
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. The previous president, Fulgencio Batista fled the country on 31 December 1958. The holiday is celebrated on January 1 every year. -
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 on the Twin Towers in New York.
The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of four suicide bombings coordinated by al-Qaeda in the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners. -
The day I was born
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Beginning of the civil war in Syria.
The Syrian Civil War is an armed conflict originating from a broad protest movement against the Baathist regime that began with peaceful anti-regime and pro-regime demonstrations on March 15, 2011, three months after the beginning of the revolutionary climate known as the Arab Spring . -
The day I graduated from my primary school
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The day I left Ukraine
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World Pandemic (Covid-19).
The novel virus was first identified from an outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Attempts to contain failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020 and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of 24 November 2022, the pandemic had caused more than 639 million cases and 6.62 million confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history. -
War in Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has likely resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides and caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II with an estimated 8 million people being displaced within the country by late May as well as 7.8 million Ukrainians fleeing the country as of 8 November 2022.
