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Period: 250,000 BCE to 3500 BCE
Prehistory
Prehistory is the time that goes from the appearance of the first human beings to the invention of writing. -
Period: 250,000 BCE to 8000 BCE
Paleolithic
Cave art arose, humans improved their communication, tools were made and perfected, and humans developed role division. -
Period: 100,000 BCE to 30,000 BCE
Invention of fire
The discovery of fire and its application in cooking is attributed to Homo Erectus —successor to Homo Habilis— who inhabited the earth between 1,000,000 and 300,000 B.C. in the middle of the ice age. -
Period: 9500 BCE to 6000 BCE
Altamira
Generalization of the presence of the current Man. -6,000 BC: Beginning of the Neolithic (new stone) -
Period: 4000 BCE to 476
Antiquity
It begins in the year 4,000 BC, with the birth of writing, and ends in the year 476 AD, with the fall of the Western Roman Empire, an event with which the Middle Ages began. -
3500 BCE
Levantine rock art
Is the beginning of the megalithic phenomenon -
3500 BCE
Invention of writing
It is assumed that the first inventors of writing were the Sumerians, who inhabited southern Mesopotamia. The first writing code appeared there in the year 3100 before Jesus, and soon after writing was invented again almost 1,600 kilometers away, in Egypt. -
476
The fall of the Western Roman Empire
3 dates are decisive in the fall of the Roman Empire: the battle of Andrinopla (August 9, 378), the invasion and sack of Rome (390) by the Gauls, which had never been invaded for eight centuries, and the overthrow of the last Emperor of Rome (September 4, 476) -
Period: 476 to 1453
Middle age
It began in the year 476 with the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire and ends with the fall of the Byzantine Empire at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century (1453). -
May 29, 1453
The fall of the Byzantine Empire
The capture of Constantinople by the Ottomans ends the Byzantine Empire. After centuries of decline, the fall of Constantinople spelled the end of the Byzantine Empire. The city, renamed Istanbul, became the new capital of the powerful Ottoman rule. -
Period: 1492 to
Modern age
The Modern Age is the historical stage that takes place between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. In contrast to the Middle Ages, the Modern Age is characterized by cultural progress, discoveries, the creation of States, the development of the economy worldwide and a greater weight of reason over faith. -
Oct 12, 1492
Discovery of America
In this way, on October 12, 1492 Christopher Columbus arrived in what we know today as America when he met the Antilles and landed on the island of Guanahaní, which he baptized with the name of San Salvador (later he arrived in the current territories of Santo Domingo and Cuba). -
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French Revolution
The French Revolution was a social and political process that took place in France between 1789 and 1799 whose main consequences were the abolition of the absolute monarchy and the proclamation of the Republic, eliminating the economic and social bases of the Old Regime. -
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Contemporary Age
The Contemporary Age is the historical period between the French Revolution (1789) and the present. It is a time characterized by revolutions and by great artistic, demographic, social, political, technological and economic transformations. -
Period: to 1500
Beaker
Development of the Ancient Bronze. -
Proclamation of the second Spanish republic
Éibar was the first city to raise the tricolor flag, on the morning of Tuesday, April 14, 1931, at half past six in the morning. The newly elected municipal corporation in Sunday's elections (10 socialist councillors, 8 republicans and 1 from the PNV) proclaimed the Second Republic in Éibar. -
Admiral Carrero Blanco is assassinated in a terrorist attack
The assassination of Carrero Blanco, also known by its code name "Operation Ogre", was an attack perpetrated by the terrorist organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) on Thursday, December 20, 1973 against Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, president of the Spanish Government during the Franco dictatorship.