Timeline of Anarchism in Southern Europe: Difference between revisions

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This is a timeline of various political, legal, military, social, economic and environmental events that have occurred in Southern Europe that are relevant to libertarian socialism.

Pre-1000

3000BCE: The Minoan Crete Civilization is formed and holds a large, functioning mutualist economy. It is also the first modern civilization in Europe and held the largest cities in the world.
594BCE: The Athenian Polis is formed, one of the most widely known attempts at direct democracy and environmental protection.

1800s

1878: Giovanni Passannante attempts to assassinate King Umberto I of Italy with a dagger.
1893: Santiago Salvador throws two Orsini bombs into a Barcelona theatre, killing some twenty people and injuring scores of others.
1896: Dimitris Matsalis, an anarchist shoemaker, attacks banker Dionysios Fragkopoulos and merchant Andreas Kollas with a knife. Fragkopoulos is killed on the spot; Kollas is seriously wounded.
1897: Pietro Acciarito tries to stab King Umberto of Italy.
1897: Michele Angiolillo shoots dead Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo at a thermal bath resort, seeking vengeance for the imprisonment and torture of alleged revolutionaries at the Montjuïc fortress.

1900s

1919: The Bienno Rosso begins.
1936: The Spanish Civil War begins, leading to the CNT-FAI and Spanish working class and peasants organizing the anarcho-syndicalist Spanish Revolution.
1973: The Athens Polytechnic Uprising occurs, leading to the fall of Greece's fascist military dictatorship and the creation of a social democracy.
1974: The Carnation Revolution begins in Portugal, leading to the fall of the fascist military dictatorship and creation of a progressive democracy, the end of the last European colonial empire (as the colonies of Mozambique, Timor-Leste, Sao Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea are all granted independence) and the formation of hundreds of workers' councils.
1975: The Second Spanish Revolution begins, as the fascist military dictatorship is destroyed, a progressive social democracy is created and hundreds of workers' councils are formed.

2000s

2003: The insurrectionary group 'Revolutionary Struggle' is founded in Greece.
2006: Rog is squatted and converted into a social center.
2008: Greek Insurrection
2012: The 15N or Indignados movement begins in Spain.

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 * 1878: [[Giovanni Passannante]] attempts to assassinate King Umberto I of Italy with a dagger.
 * 1893: [[Santiago Salvador]] throws two [[Orsini Bomb|Orsini bombs]] into a Barcelona theatre, killing some twenty people and injuring scores of others.
+* 1896: [[Dimitris Matsalis]], an anarchist shoemaker, attacks banker Dionysios Fragkopoulos and merchant Andreas Kollas with a knife. Fragkopoulos is killed on the spot; Kollas is seriously wounded.
+* 1897: [[Pietro Acciarito]] tries to stab King Umberto of Italy.
+* 1897: [[Michele Angiolillo]] shoots dead Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo  at a thermal bath resort, seeking vengeance for the imprisonment and torture of alleged revolutionaries at the Montjuïc fortress.
 == 1900s ==

Revision as of 16:32, 8 May 2019

Pre-1000

1800s

1900s

2000s

See Also