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The Crisis of 1917 is the name that Spanish historians have given to the series of events that took place in the summer of 1917 in Spain.In particular, three simultaneous challenges threatened the government and the system of the Restoration: a military movement (the Juntas de Defensa), a political movement (the Parliamentary Assembly, organized by the Regionalist League of Catalonia in ...
War between the Alans and the Suevi (428) Battle of Mérida (428) Part of Germanic Invasions of Hispania Location: Iberian Peninsula Suebi. Hispania. Sarmatian Alans: Defeat at the Battle of Mérida. War between the Visigoths and the Vandal–Alanic alliance (429) Part of Germanic Invasions of Hispania Location: Iberian Peninsula Visigothic Kingdom
Francisco Largo Caballero, one of the leaders of the UGT during the 1917 general strike. The plans for the general strike were altered when on 19 July 1917, coinciding with the Assembly of Parliamentarians meeting in Barcelona, a strike by the Valencian railroad workers, affiliated to the UGT, began due to a labor dispute that they maintained with the Company of the Iron Roads of Northern Spain.
Except in Morocco, Spanish troops continued to wear colourful dress uniforms for parade and off-duty wear; a feature that quickly disappeared in all armies directly involved in the war. [9] The main rifle of the Spanish Army at this time was a version of the Mauser, manufactured in Oviedo in 7 mm caliber, known as the Mauser Model 1893 rifle. [10]
In 1904, the United Spanish War Veterans was created from smaller groups of the veterans of the Spanish–American War. The organization has been defunct since 1992 when its last surviving member Nathan E. Cook a veteran of the Philippine-American war died, but it left an heir in the Sons of Spanish–American War Veterans, created in 1937 at ...
In the 20th century the Caribbean was again important during World War II, in the decolonization wave in the post-war period, and in the tension between Communist Cuba and the United States (U.S.). Genocide, slavery, immigration and rivalry between world powers have given Caribbean history an impact disproportionate to the size of this small ...
23 January – Encarna Hernández, basketball player and coach (died 2022). 1 February – José Luis Sampedro, economist and human rights activist (died 2013). 20 April – María Silva Cruz, "La Libertaria", anarchist known for the 1933 Casas Viejas uprising (died 1936).
These demands for more autonomy sparked several wars, including the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and the Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821). The last major colonial power on the continent, the United Kingdom , granted dominion status to Canada in 1867 and slowly turned over its remaining land to that country over the next 100 ...