CONTEMPORARY AGE ( 1789 – nowadays) By spgarcia Period: 1702 to 1714 War of succession between the Crown of Castile and the Catalan-Aragonese crown. Jul 4, 1776 The United States of America becomes independent from England May 5, 1789 French Revolution. The village occupies the Bastille. May 2, 1808 Beginning of the war of independence in Spain. Jun 18, 1815 The defeat of Waterloo marks the end of Napoleon's military power 1848 First steam locomotive in the Iberian Peninsula. Mar 31, 1889 The Eiffel Tower, a sample of the iron architecture of the s. XIX. 1907 Picasso begins a new pictorial style, Cubism.Picasso begins a new pictorial style, Cubism. Period: 1914 to 1918 World War I ends with more than 12 million dead. 1917 The Russian Revolution establishes a socialist regime (USSR). 1922 Gandhi organizes the first civil disobedience campaign. 1929 Nazism begins in Germany. Period: 1936 to 1939 Civil war in Spain. Period: 1939 to 1945 World War II Period: 1939 to 1975 Military dictatorship of Francisco Franco in Spain 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. Mar 15, 2011 Beginning of the civil war in Syria 2015 Refugee crisis in Europe Sep 11, 2015 Attack on the Twin Towers in New York 2020 World Pandemic (Covid-19)
