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Although the medieval fortress known as the Bastille held only seven prisoners, its fall into the hands of Parisian revolutionaries symbolically marked the end of the Ancien Régime and the starting point of the French Revolution. -
The Spanish rose up against the French invasion starting the Spanish War of Independence. -
The defeat of Waterloo marks the end of Napoleon's military power. -
La Mataró, was the first steam locomotive to be operated in the territory of the Iberian Peninsula, specifically making the first section of the Barcelona-Mataró line, on October 28, 1848. -
The Eiffel Tower, located in Paris, was built on January 28, 1889 by Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier. -
Cubism is a school and aesthetic theory of plastic arts and design. It is characterized by the use of geometric shapes. -
World War I, formerly called the Great War, was a military confrontation centered in Europe. 1914-1918 -
The Russian Revolution of October 1917 divided the 20th century. He promised to transform the world and end injustice but ended up becoming a regime destined to collapse due to its obsolescence. -
Gandhi had led an end to his first campaign for independence in November 1922, which he called, in an innovative term, the 'force of truth', satyagraha, synonymous with 'non-violent resistance'. -
The appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany ends democracy in that country. Guided by racist and authoritarian ideas, the Nazis abolished basic freedoms and sought to create a "Volk" community. -
It was a warlike conflict that later would also have repercussions in an economic crisis. -
Germany then invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, starting World War II in Europe. Most of the nations of the world were involved in it. -
After the war, he incorporated a clear influence of German and Italian totalitarianism in fields such as labor relations, autarkic economic policy, aesthetics, the use of symbols or the single party. -
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki meant the true end of the war. The Hiroshima atomic bomb, known as Little Boy, and the Nagasaki atomic bomb, known as Fat Man, marked the true end of the greatest conflict of the 20th century. -
when the nationalists of the Kuomintang already controlled only a few cities in the south, the leader of the Communist Party of China Mao Tse Tung proclaims the People's Republic of China from the Tiananmen Gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing. -
On January 1, 1959, one of the most important stages of the Cuban Revolution ended, giving way to the dictator Fulgencio Batista and establishing the revolutionary government, headed by Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Ché" Guevara. -
Peacefully and without shedding blood or firing a gun, the German population tore down the Berlin Wall. This structure divided the German capital for almost three decades. -
A series of four suicide terrorist attacks committed in the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, by the militant Islamic terrorist group "Al Qaeda". -
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Is an armed conflict that began in Syria after the 2011 anti-government protests. These protests led to clashes between the country's Armed Forces and the so-called Syrian opposition, which includes several terrorist groups. -
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The refugee crisis that Europe has experienced in 2015 has been the largest displacement of refugees, asylum seekers, vulnerable people and economic migrants. -
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the new coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2. The WHO first became aware of the existence of this new virus on December 31, 2019, when it was informed of a group of cases of "viral pneumonia" that had been declared in Wuhan (People's Republic of China). It became a global pandemic. -
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Is an ongoing large-scale war episode that began on February 24, 2022 and is part of the Russo-Ukrainian war that began in 2014.
This is the largest conventional military attack on European soil since the Yugoslav wars.