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Grito de Dolores: The Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla encouraged his congregation to revolt against the Spanish crown in a speech made at Dolores. 28 September Mexican War of Independence : After Hidalgo orders Juan Antonio Riaño the surrender of Guanajuato , the insurgent troops led by José Mariano Abasolo and Ignacio Camargo take ...
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During the period of Spanish rule, forced labor, [2] [3] the expansion of colonial territory, [4] [5] and the forceful reduction of disparate communities into villages or missions where Christianity was enforced [6] were common causes of revolt. After independence, continued encroachment on indigenous land rights was the primary cause of conflict.
Spanish politics, especially on the left, was quite fragmented: on the one hand socialists and communists supported the republic but on the other, during the republic, anarchists had mixed opinions, though both major groups opposed the Nationalists during the Civil War; the latter, in contrast, were united by their fervent opposition to the ...
The May Days (Catalan: Fets de Maig, Spanish: Jornadas de Mayo), sometimes also called May Events (Catalan: Sucessos de Maig, Spanish: Sucesos de Mayo, Hechos de Mayo), were a series of clashes between 3 and 8 May 1937 during which factions on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War engaged one another in street battles in various parts of Catalonia, centered on the city of Barcelona.
[7] [8] [9] Land warfare occurred primarily in Cuba and to a much lesser extent in the Philippines. Little or no fighting occurred in Guam, Puerto Rico, or other areas. [10] Although largely forgotten in the United States today, [11] the Spanish–American War was a formative event in
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Disastrous floods have been reported throughout the history of Valencia, from the 14th century up to the contemporary period. [5] The 1957 Valencia flood was caused by a three-day cold drop (Spanish: gota fría) (which usually leads to heavy autumn rains in Spain and France); it overflowed the banks of the Túria river and devastated the city of Valencia.