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The great ephemeris of the year

This 2022 is a year of outstanding ephemeris, some referring to nearby events, such as the entry into operation of the euro to the death of Princess Diana, and others related to remote times, such as the birth of Molière.Reviewing the ephemeris of the coming months is, until technology remedies it, the closest thing to travel in time.

500 years ago

07/02/1522.Antonio de Nebrija, author of the first Castilian grammar (1492), dies in Alcalá de Henares.

09/06/1522.After almost three years of navigation, Juan Sebastián Elcano arrives in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz, aboard the Nao Victoria, and 18 men, after taking the first round the world.

400 years ago

01/15/1622.Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), playwright, father of French comedy, was born in Paris.

03/12/1622.First multiple canonization in Rome: Ignacio de Loyola, Francisco Javier, Teresa de Ávila, Isidro Labrador and Felipe Neri are sanctified.

200 years ago

07/08/1822.Percy b.Shelley, English essayist and romantic poet.

07/22/1822.Agustino Gregor Mendel, Botanist and Prelate, the first person to lay the mathematical basis of genetics, the so -called Mendelism.

09/07/1822.Pedro, heir prince of Portugal and regent of Brazil, proclaims the independence of Brazil in São Paulo.

09/27/1822.Jean-François Champollion announces the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs, using Rosetta's stone.

12/27/1822.Louis Pasteur is born, French bacteriologist, creator of pasteurization (eliminating high temperature germs in a short period of time).

100 years ago

01/05/1922.Ernest Shackleton, British polar explorer, who led the Transantartic Imperial Expedition (1914-17), dies on the South Georgia Island.

02/02/1922.The editor Sylvia Beach published in Paris the novel Ulysses, by James Joyce, in 40.º Anniversary of the Irish writer.

02/28/1822.Egypt declares its independence from the United Kingdom, which maintains the presence of troops in the Suez Canal, under British sovereignty until 1956.

05/03/1922.Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director and writer, was born in Bologna.

03/12/1922.Jack Kerouac, novelist, member of the Beat Generation, whose book on the road (1957) had a wide cultural influence is born.

03/19/1922.Francesc Català-Roca, one of the main figures of the photographic avant-garde in Catalonia, was born in Valls.

05/20/1922.Gabriel Ferrater, Catalan poet and critic, a member of the poetic group of the 50th generation, was born in Reus.

05/03/1922.Alain Resnais, French filmmaker, one of the main figures of the Nouvelle Vague, was born in Vannes.

Las grandes efemérides del año

06/20/1922.King Alfonso XIII begins a four -day trip to the Cáceres region of Las Hurdes, which has survives for years in total isolation.

08/02/1922.Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish scientist, phone inventor, dies in Canada.

08/22/1922.Michael Collins, hero of the Irish struggle for Independence, killed in an ambush of the adversaries of the Anglo-Ilondés Treaty.

09/01922.Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor and filmmaker is born.

10/27/1922.Thousands of fascist militants are launched towards Rome with the aim of coercing King Víctor Manuel III to give the reins of Italy to Benito Mussolini.Two days later, the Duce becomes president of the Government.

11/1/1922.Abolition of the Ottoman Empire after 600 years of existence.Kemal Atatürk suppresses the sultanato and Mehmet VI is exiled in Italy.

11/1/1922.In Egypt, the English archaeologist Howard Carter finds the entrance to the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings (he will enter with Lord Carnarvon on the 26th).

11/14/1922.The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins its radio emissions.At the end of 1926 it will become a public station (British Broadcasting Corporation).

11/16/1922.José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.

11/18/1922.Marcel Proust, a French writer, whose prose prose in details and very long, labyrinthine periods constitutes a fundamental milestone in contemporary literature, dies in Paris.

11/23/1922.Joan Fuster, Valencian writer and intellectual, one of the most influential essayists of Catalan letters after postwar.

12/06/1922.Entry into force of the constitution of the free state of Ireland.The six counties of Northern Ireland reject belonging to the new state.

12/24/1922.Ava Gardner, an American actress, famous for her dazzling beauty, is born in North Carolina.

12/27/1922.Ramon Trias Fargas, Catalan economist and politician, was born in Barcelona.

75 years ago

02/12/1947.In Paris, Christian Dior presents The New Look, the collection that marks women's fashion in the following years.

04/27/1947.Taking advantage of the Déu Mare's enthronement in the Monastery of Montserrat, an act of Catalan affirmation is carried out that the dictatorship cannot avoid.

04/30/1947.Francesc Cambó, a center -right politician, twice minister and great promoter of Catalan culture, dies in Buenos Aires.

06/05/1947.At Harvard University, Secretary of State George Marshall draws a plan for the reconstruction of Europe.The known as Marshall Plan will dedicate 12.500 million dollars to help Europe from 1948 to 1952.

06/07/1947.Eva Duarte de Perón arrives officially traveling to Spain and awakens the sympathy of a multitude of Spaniards during its 18 -day tour of the country, three of them, in Barcelona.

05/25/1947.Ana Frank's diary is first published in Amsterdam, two years after his death in the Nazi field in Bergen-Belsen.

08/15/1947.Indian independence, led by Mahatma Gandhi, who cannot avoid the partition of British India by criteria of religion and independence of Pakistan.

08/29/1947.Manolete, indisputable figure of the bullfighting and myth of postwar Spain, dies as a result of a horn guns before the Islero Miura, in the Plaza de Linares.

11/29/1947.The UN General Assembly approves Resolution 1981, which establishes the Palestinian partition in a Jewish and another Arab.The resolution, rejected by the Arabs, will never be applied.

50 years ago

01/30/1972.Bloody Sunday.British soldiers shoot at a manifestation of Catholics in Derry and kill 13 people.Another will die later.

02/13/1972.Spanish skier Francisco Fernández Ochoa wins the special length and gold medal in the JJ.Oo.Sapporo winter, Japan.

02/22/1972.Interview between Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong, during the historic visit of the US president to China, who intends to strengthen the US position in the cold war against the USSR.

03/06/1972.Gas explosion in a block of floors on Capitán Arenas Street in Barcelona, in which 18 people die.In October, there will be another explosion on Ladrilleros Street (14 dead).

03/14/1972.Premiere in New York by El Padrino, by Francis Ford Coppola;The following year will win the Oscar and become a cult movie.

03/23/1972.Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer, dies in Xàbia, Spain.

05/26/1972.Nixon and Brézhnev sign in Moscow the strategic weapons limitation treaty (PALT).The treaty limits the arsenal of each country to 200 antibalistic missiles.

06/04/1972.Andrés Gimeno wins the Roland Garros de Paris tournament by winning French Patrick Proisy in four sets.

09/05/1972.The Palestinian Black Group attempts against members of the Israeli Olympic team at the Munich Olympic Games.After 18 hours of kidnapping, 11 Israelis, five terrorists and a policeman die.

09/11/1972.After two months of competition, in Reykiavik, the American Bobby Fischer proclaims the world chess champion by winning the Soviet Borís Spasski for 12.5 to 8.5.

10/13/1972.The plane in which a Uruguayan rugby team is crashing in the Andes.After 70 days, 16 survivors are rescued.Later, it was learned that they practiced cannibalism.

25 years ago

03/26/1997.In a ranch, near San Diego, the bodies of 39 members of the Puerta del Cielo are found.It is the greatest collective suicide in the history of the United States.

04/05/1997.Allen Ginsberg, an American poet, emblematic figure of the Beat generation, dies in New York.

05/01/1997.Tony Blair sweeps the elections of the United Kingdom and buries 18 years of conservative government.

06/26/1997.In London, Bloomsbury Publishing publishes Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, by J.K.Rowling.The first edition is 500 copies.

07/01997.The People's Republic of China recovers sovereignty about Hong Kong, after 156 years in the hands of the United Kingdom.

07/01997.The Civil Guard ends the most cruel kidnapping of ETA.Prison official José Antonio Ortega Lara is released after spending 532 days in a tiny dungeon.

07/02/1997.James Stewart, American film actor, dies in Los Angeles.

07/10/1997.Miguel Ángel Blanco, councilor of Ermua by the PP, is kidnapped and ETA threatens to kill him in 48 hours if he does not approach the prisoners to the Basque Country.Before the government's refusal, the band fulfills its threat two days later, despite the mass mobilizations against ETA.

08/31/1997.Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, dies from the wounds received in a traffic accident in the Tunnel of the Paris's soul bridge, when the driver fled from the persecution of some paparazzi.

09/11/1997.Inauguration of the National Teatre de Catalunya (TNC) with the representation of L’Auca del Senyor Esteve.

10/18/1997.In Bilbao, the Guggenheim Museum is inaugurated, an icon that will change the city.

12/11/1997.Kyoto protocol approval, which will enter into force in 2005.A reduction of 5.2% of gas emissions causing greenhouse before 2010 is agreed, then extended to 2020.

12/12/1997.President Jordi Pujol inaugurates the last section of the transverse EIX that joins Girona and Lleida.

20 years ago

01/01/2002.The euro becomes the official currency of 12 of the 15 countries of the European Union, including Spain.