Contemporary Age By YanisF12019 1702 War of succession between the Crown of Castile and the Catalan-Aragonese crown. 1702-1714 1766 United States of America becomes independent from England 1789 French Revolution. The village occupies the Bastille. 1808 Beginning of the war of independence in Spain. 1815 The defeat of Waterloo marks the end of Napoleon's military power 1848 First steam locomotive in the Iberian Peninsula. 1889 The Eiffel Tower, a sample of the iron architecture of the s. XIX. 1907 Picasso begins a new pictorial style, Cubism. 1914 World War I ends with more than 12 million dead. 1914-1918 1917 The Russian Revolution establishes a socialist regime (USSR). 1922 Gandhi organizes the first civil disobedience campaign. 1929 Nazism begins in Germany. 1936 Civil war in Spain. 1936-39 1939 World War II. 1939-45 1939 Military dictatorship of Francisco Franco in Spain. 1939-75 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs explode. 1949 The People's Republic of China is proclaimed, with Mao (president). 1959 Triumph of the Cuban Revolution with Fidel Castro. 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall. Sep 11, 2001 Attack on the Twin Towers in New York. 2011 Beginning of the civil war in Syria. 2015 Refugee crisis in Europe 2020 World Pandemic (COVID-19)
