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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 ...
The Spanish–American War brought an end to almost four centuries of Spanish presence in the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific; the United States meanwhile not only became a major world power, but also gained several island possessions spanning the globe, which provoked rancorous debate over the wisdom of expansionism. [16]
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]
The timeline of events of the Spanish–American War covers major events leading up to, during, and concluding the Spanish–American War, a ten-week conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States of America.
Some war memorials date the end of the war as being when the Versailles Treaty was ... The Spanish flu killed at least 17 to 25 ... By the end of 1917, ...
End of Abbasids' efforts to assert their rule in Al-Andalus and end of Fihrids prominence; Husayn of Zaragoza accepts a truce. Charlemagne's campaign in the Iberian Peninsula (778–816) Battle of Roncevaux Pass (778) Siege of Barcelona (801) Siege of Tortosa (808–809) Battle of Huesca (812) Battle of Majorca (813) Battle of Pancorbo (816)
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).