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Lorca grew up in rural andalucia
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Birth of Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca was Born on June 5, 1898, in Fuente Vaqueros, Spain. -
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Eldest of four
Oldest of four children born to a wealthy land owner and schoolteacher wife -
Eruption of Mount Pelée, Martinique (40,000 killed)
When Mount Pelee roared to life again in 1902, the mountain produced one of the deadliest eruptions in recorded history, unleashing a cascade of horrors upon the residents of St. Pierre before obliterating the town in one fatal instant. -
Age 10 moved to granada
At the age of ten moved to Granada with his family -
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Lorca studied law at at the University of Granada before relocating to Madrid in 1919
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Lorca moves to Madrid
In 1919 Lorca moved to the Residensia de estudiantes in Madrid -
Treaty of Versailles - Germany loses annexed lands and colonies
World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. Negotiated among the Allied powers with little participation by Germany, its 15 parts and 440 articles reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations. -
libro de poemas was written
Libro de poemas was and even collection of predominantly modernista poems culled from his jovenilia -
mariana pineda is written
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Lorca goes out of the country
Lorca visits New York and Cuba to find inspiration -
Lorca writes El Publico
Lorca wrote el Publico a complex multifaceted play that explores the nature of homosexual passion -
Asi que pasen cinco años is completed
Once he has returned to Spain he completed his second play, Asi que pasen cinco años; aimed at rupturing the bounds of conventional dramaturgy -
First andalusian tragedy premieres
In 1933 the premiere of his first Andalusian tragedy, Blood wedding he achieved his first major theatrical success -
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Federico Garcia Lorca visits buenos aires, argentina
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Lorca premieres Yerma
Lorca premieres the second of his Andalusian tragedy in his career -
El sueño, de la vida is undertaken
In 1935 Lorca undertook his most overtly political play El sueño, de la vida, a technically innovative work based on recent events in Spain. -
The beginning of the spanish civil war
The Spanish civil war begins -
Lorca is arrested
On August 16, he was arrested in Granada by Nationalist forces, who abhorred his homosexuality and his liberal views, and imprisoned without a trial. -
Lorca executed by nationalist firing squad
Lorca was executed in the early months of the Spanish civil war, On the night of August 18 or 19 (the precise date has never been verified), he was driven to a remote hillside outside town and shot.
