Second Half! 🤝✨ Flashcards
1820, 1 January
Riego Uprising. Military start imposing the Liberal Regime. Colonel Rafael de Riego against the absolutist rule of Ferdinand VII.
1830 26-29 July
New French Revolution. Definitive abolition of the Absolutist Monarchy in France (Monarchie de Juillet).
1848, 21 January
Publication in London of the Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels) + Liberal and social revolutions burst all over Europe.
1861, 17 March
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy
1862, 23 September
Bismarck at the head of the Prussian government.
1870, 1/2 September
French defeat at Sedan. End of the Franco- Prussian War
1871, 18 January
Proclamation in Versailles of the German Empire (2nd Reich).
1871, 18 March-28 May
French Commune
1884
Beginning of the Berlin Conference regulating the European colonisation in Africa. Height of European Colonial Imperialism.
1914, 28 June
Assassination in Sarajevo of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian ‘Throne
1914, 28 July
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. Beginning of World War I.
1916, 3d January
Sykes Picot Agreements. Europeans decide the partition of the Ottoman Empire
1917, 7 November
Russian “October” Revolution
1918, 11 November
Signature of the Armistice between the Axis and the Allies. End of WWI
1920
First meeting of the League of Nations
1924, 21 January
Death of Lenin