CONTEMPORARY AGE(1789-Nowadays) By idaira mirats 1702 -1702-1714 – War of succession between the Crown of Castile and the Catalan-Aragonese crown. 1766 -1766 – The United States of America becomes independent from England 1789 -1789 – French Revolution. The village occupies the Bastille. 1808 -1808 – Beginning of the war of independence in Spain. 1815 -1815 - The defeat of Waterloo marks the end of Napoleon's military power 1848 -1848 – First steam locomotive in the Iberian Peninsula. 1889 -1889 – The Eiffel Tower, a sample of the iron architecture of the s. XIX. 1907 -1907 – Picasso begins a new pictorial style, Cubism. 1914 -1914-1918 – World War I ends with more than 12 million dead. 1917 -1917 – The Russian Revolution establishes a socialist regime (USSR). 1922 -1922 – Gandhi organizes the first civil disobedience campaign. 1929 -1929 – Nazism begins in Germany. 1936 -1936-1939 – Civil war in Spain. 1939 -1939-1945 – World War II. 1939 -1939-1975 – Military dictatorship of Francisco Franco in Spain. 1945 -1945 – Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs explode. 1949 -1949 – The People's Republic of China is proclaimed, with Mao (president). 1959 -1959 – Triumph of the Cuban Revolution with Fidel Castro. 1989 -1989 – Fall of the Berlin Wall. 2001 -2001 – Attack on the Twin Towers in New York. 2011 -2011- Beginning of the civil war in Syria. 2015 -2015 – Refugee crisis in Europe 2020 -2020 – World Pandemic (Covid-19).