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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 ...
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.
Pistolerismo refers both to a specific period of Spanish history, between the general strike of August 1917 and Primo de Rivera's coup in September 1923, and to the social phenomenon spread in many areas of Spain [1] during which Spanish employers hired thugs to intimidate and often attack trade unionists and notable workers – and vice versa. [2]
All versions of the rifle saw extensive service in the Spanish Army, beginning in the Spanish–American War in 1898, the Rif War of 1920–1927, and the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939. The M1916 short rifles remained in production in Spain until 1951, and many of these later rifles were converted to shoot either 7.92×57mm Mauser or 7.62× ...
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
The Spanish–American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera played a role. [223] The Library of Congress archives contain many films and film clips from the war. [ 224 ] As good footage of fighting was difficult to capture, filmed reenactments using model ships and cigar smoke were shown on vaudeville screens.
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]
The remaining two ships of the class, one operating on each side, were both lost in the Spanish Civil War. España (ex- Alfonso XIII ), serving the Nationalist side, struck a mine in April 1937 and sunk, while Jaime I fighting as part of the Republican navy, suffered an internal explosion at Cartagena in June 1937, being scuttled as a ...