Abril cultural

• July 4, 1776: United States Declaration of Independence.
• July 14 1789: Storming on the Bastille.
• May 2, 1808: Popular uprising in Madrid against the French.
• July 19, 1808: Battle of Bailén, first defeat of the Napoleonic armies.
• March 19, 1812: The first Spanish Constitution was issued.
• December 11, 1813: Treaty of Valençay, Fernando VII was restored to the throne of Spain.
• June 18, 1815: Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon's defeat.
• December 9, 1824: Battle of Ayacucho, Spain lost its colonial empire in South America.
• July 27, 1830: French July Revolution begins.
• February 23, 1848: Beginning of the Revolution in France.
• March 17, 1861: Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy assumed the title of king of Italy.
• September 1, 1870: Battle of Sedan.
• January 18, 1871: William of Prussia is proclaimed emperor of Germany.
• February 11, 1873: The First Spanish Republic is proclaimed.
• December 29, 1874: General Martinez Campos proclaimed Alphonso de Bourbon king of Spain.
• June 28, 1914: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
• November 7, 1917: Russian Revolution.
• November 11, 1918: World War I ends.
• April 14, 1931: The Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed.
• January 30, 1933: Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
• July 18, 1936: Spanish Civil War begins.
• September 1, 1939: Hitler invades Poland; World War II begins.
• June 6, 1944: Normandy landings.
• July 17, 1947: The State of Israel was born.
• January 30, 1948: Gandhi, the father of Indian independence, was assassinated.
• October 1, 1949: Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
• October 23, 1956: Soviet tanks went into Budapest to restore order.
• January 8, 1959: Fidel Castro enters Havana.
• November 8, 1960: Kennedy becomes US president.
• November 20, 1975: Franco dies.
• December 8, 1978: The Spanish Constitution was ratified in a referendum.
• November 9, 1989: Berlin Wall falls.
• September 11, 2001: Terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.