ARGIA.eus

Subscribe
Gift subscription to ARGIA
Society Environment Politics Economy Culture Basque language Feminism Education International Opinion
monday 19 august 2024
Automatically translated from Basque, translation may contain errors. More information here. Elhuyarren itzultzaile automatikoaren logoa
Historia > Efemerideen kanala

Granadan poet Federico García Lorca was shot by Francoists

88
years ago

19 August 1936,

The Granadan poet Federico García Lorca was shot by Franco's military for his homosexuality and republicania. It is among the most important writers in Spanish literature in the twentieth century. The body has been deposited in a mass grave and has not yet been found.

On this day
1936The Battle of Irun enters a decisive phase
1949A giant fire took place in Landeta
1957The boat Azor de Franco killed five people in San Sebastian
1993Juan Calvo dies in Arkaute police station after being tortured by the Ertzaintza

This year in history: < >
From newest From oldest

1936-01-20
Start a 50-day general strike against the French occupation in Syria
1936-01-29
Workers occupied the Firestone factory and started a sit-down strike in Ohio, USA
1936-02-28
Canada withdrew charges against the leaders of displaced workers to Ottawa
1936-05-28
35,000 workers occupied the Renault plant in Paris
1936-06-13
August Landmesser rejects a Nazi gesture with his arm raised in an act presided over by Hitler
1936-06-28
Anarchist Alexander Berkman committed suicide
1936-07-18
When General Francisco Franco was one of the chiefs, part of the Spanish army hit a coup d'état.
1936-07-21
Marina Ginestà, a 17-year-old anti-fascist militant, receives this photo by photographer Juan Guzmán
1936-07-22
Francoist aircraft seized and bombed Otxandio during the Santamaña celebration
1936-07-24
The column headed from Durru left Barcelona to Zaragoza in the hands of fascists
1936-07-26
Republican aircraft bombed Loiola's barracks in San Sebastian
1936-07-28
The militiamen brought the Francoists out of San Sebastian, Loiola's headquarters
1936-08-03
Black athlete Jesse Owens won the gold medal at the Hitler Olympic Games in Berlin
1936-08-08
The French Government closes the border with the Spanish State
1936-08-10
The burning stones that killed the Pamplona teacher Camino Oskoz and threw into the void in Urbasa
1936-08-11
Francoists burned books in Basque at the Plaza Vieja de Tolosa
1936-08-15
14 year old Marvels Lamberto was killed by Francoists in Larraga (Navarra)
1936-08-19
The Battle of Irun enters a decisive phase
1936-08-19
Granadan poet Federico García Lorca was shot by Francoists
1936-08-23
52 Republican prisoners were shot by the Francoists in Navarra, in the Valcaldera de Cadreita
1936-08-30
Juana Josefa Goñi and her six children were thrown into the cave of Legarre in Gaztelu
1936-09-07
Death of the last Tasmanian tiger or marsupial wolf in Benjamin
1936-09-13
The pilot Felix Urtubi Erzilla de Elorrio, specifically dedicated to a Franco aeroplane, died
1936-09-22
Bergara and Deba fall into the hands of the Francoist army
1936-09-25
The Basque Government set up the Basque Army to fight the Franco army
1936-09-25
Estella's military commander banned the word 'goodbye' by a side
1936-09-26
Francoist aircraft bombed Bilbao
1936-09-26
Franchises in Arrasate
1936-10-02
Hundreds of left recruited against their will at the Francoist Sanjurjo Tertiary were imprisoned in Zaragoza
1936-10-17
Francoists fused the writer, Euskaltzale and Abertzale ecclesiastical 'Aitzol'
1936-10-22
Born Bobby Seale, one of the founders of the Black Panther of Self-Defense
1936-11-02
The Soviet boat Andreev came armed to the port of Bilbao
1936-11-03
Two young Counterparts, sentenced to 12 years in prison, advised a soldier to remove her and fired with the word "abur".
1936-11-13
700 Irish Brigade soldiers joined Francoists
1936-11-15
First fight by the Basque Army
1936-11-20
Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti dies in Madrid
1936-12-05
The crew of the Franco vessel Virgen del Carmen was raided and transferred to Bilbao
1936-12-20
Statue of Spanish General Prim in Barcelona

This month's anniversaries:
|
From newest From oldest

10
years ago
2014-08-09
Police killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, and great riots broke out across the United States.
25
years ago
1999-08-26
The second war in Chechnya began when Russia began the invasion of the country
25
years ago
1999-08-20
Action disguised as 'Giraldilla' at the opening of the World Athletics Championship
25
years ago
1999-08-12
Farmers dismantled the McDonald’s building in Millaun, France
30
years ago
1994-08-24
Carlos Bue Judge Imprisoned Journalist Pepe Rei
30
years ago
1994-08-24
The Filter massacre in Uruguay, two people killed by the police in the demonstration against the extradition of Basque refugees
30
years ago
1994-08-05
Two injunctions on arrest warrant planted at the headquarters of the Military Government of Bilbao
35
years ago
1989-08-23
Two million Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians formed a human chain of 675 kilometres for the independence of their peoples
40
years ago
1984-08-11
CCOO calls on Telefónica workers not to help police paint phones in Gipuzkoa
45
years ago
1979-08-30
American actor Jean Seberg, a follower of the Black Panthers, committed suicide
50
years ago
1974-08-28
Francoist police threw members of ETA Tupa and Tanke in San Sebastian
55
years ago
1969-08-17
The giant Woodstock music festival ends in New York State
55
years ago
1969-08-03
Felix Arnaiz Maeso was shot dead by a Spanish policeman in Rome
60
years ago
1964-08-31
Four people were fined in Sestao for playing txistu as an instrument
60
years ago
1964-08-11
Attempted attack on dictator Franco
60
years ago
1964-08-07
U.S. Congress approved the use of the army against North Vietnam
65
years ago
1959-08-25
Miles Davis is beaten by police in New York
75
years ago
1949-08-25
They finally managed to extinguish the fire in the Landeta forest
75
years ago
1949-08-19
A giant fire took place in Landeta
80
years ago
1944-08-24
Anti-fascist soldiers liberated the city of Paris occupied by the Nazis
80
years ago
1944-08-22
30 Spanish machines, with four members of the French resistance, defeated the column of the Nazi army, composed of 1,300 men
80
years ago
1944-08-22
Revolutionary trade unionist Maria Oneker killed by the Nazis in Warsaw in an uprising against occupation
80
years ago
1944-08-14
Italian fascists killed the Irma Partisan Flag
80
years ago
1944-08-10
Resistance member Daniel Argote was arrested and executed by the Nazis in Orthol
85
years ago
1939-08-18
Hitler's government launched a program to kill newborns with severe disabilities
90
years ago
1934-08-07
Irun postpologists, all women, went on strike and occupied the workshop
100
years ago
1924-08-23
Born Madeleine Riffaud in Arvillers, France
120
years ago
1904-08-18
Born Maria Magunazelaia Loroño, first cyclist in the Basque Country
120
years ago
1904-08-14
Bastilla Square in Paris became a battlefield between Apache groups and police
135
years ago
1889-08-14
The dockers of the London ports started a major strike
150
years ago
1874-08-27
Carlists took positions to siege Pamplona in the Second Carlist War
185
years ago
1839-08-31
Bergara's hug between Carlists and liberals, another betrayal for Basques
220
years ago
1804-08-18
Abando's neighbors joined the Begoña in the riot called Zamakolada
220
years ago
1804-08-16
Popular uprising known as Zamakolada begins in and around Bilbao
230
years ago
1794-08-29
French army burns Eibar and kills twelve citizens
230
years ago
1794-08-14
The General Meetings of Gipuzkoa propose the creation of an independent Republic of Gipuzkoa
230
years ago
1794-08-01
The mayor of San Sebastian, Mitxelena, contacted the French troops surrounding the city to negotiate surrender
235
years ago
1789-08-04
France destroys the outbreaks of the continental Basque Country Louis XVI