Contem

Contemporary history

By Raúl Garcia Navío
  • War of succession.

    War of succession.

    • 1702-1714: War of succession between the Crown of Castile and the Catalan-Aragonese crown.
  • United States of America Independence

    United States of America Independence

    1766: The United States of America becomes independent from England
  • French Revolution

    French Revolution

    1789: French Revolution. The village occupies the Bastille.
  • Beginning of the war of independence in Spain

    Beginning of the war of independence in Spain

    1808: Beginning of the war of independence in Spain
  • The defeat of Waterloo

    The defeat of Waterloo

    1815: The defeat of Waterloo marks the end of Napoleon's military power
  • First steam locomotive in the Iberian Peninsula.

    First steam locomotive in the Iberian Peninsula.

    1848: First steam locomotive in the Iberian Peninsula.
  • The Eiffel Tower

    The Eiffel Tower

    1889: The Eiffel Tower, a sample of the iron architecture of the s. XIX.
  • New pictorial style, Cubism

    New pictorial style, Cubism

    1907: Picasso begins a new pictorial style, Cubism.
  • World War I

    World War I

    1914-1918: World War I ends with more than 12 million dead.
  • The Russian Revolution

    The Russian Revolution

    1917: The Russian Revolution establishes a socialist regime (USSR).
  • Gandhi

    Gandhi

    1922: Gandhi organizes the first civil disobedience campaign.
  • Nazism begins in Germany.

    Nazism begins in Germany.

    1929: Nazism begins in Germany.
  • Civil war in Spain.

    Civil war in Spain.

    1936-1939: Civil war in Spain.
  • World War II

    World War II

    1939-1945: World War II.
  • Dictatorship leadered by Franco in Spain

    Dictatorship leadered by Franco in Spain

    1939-1975: Military dictatorship of Francisco Franco in Spain.
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs

    Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs

    1945: Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs explode.
  • Republic of China

    Republic of China

    1949: The People's Republic of China is proclaimed, with Mao (president)
  • Cuban Revolution

    Cuban Revolution

    1959: Triumph of the Cuban Revolution with Fidel Castro.
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall.

    Fall of the Berlin Wall.

    1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall.
  • Attack on the Twin Towers

    Attack on the Twin Towers

    2001: Attack on the Twin Towers in New York.

  • My Birth

  • I started school

  • My journey to DisneyLand Paris

  • Civil war in Syria

    Civil war in Syria

    2011: Beginning of the civil war in Syria
  • Refugee crisis

    Refugee crisis

    2015: Refugee crisis in Europe

  • I started highschool

  • My journey to London

  • Covid-19

    Covid-19

    2020: World Pandemic (Covid-19).