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1926
 
    
Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí dies after being hit by a tram, with his masterpiece the Sagrada Familia unfinished       
1928
 
     
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali make Un Chien andalou, a surrealist film specifically designed to shock        
1928
 
    
García Lorca wins fame with his book of poems Gypsy Ballads       
1929
 
     
Mies van der Rohe designs his famous Barcelona Chair for the German pavilion at the Barcelona World Fair        
1931
 
    
In his painting The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali provides the disturbing image of watches drooping from the edge of flat surfaces       
1932
 
    
Ernest Hemingway, an aficionado of the sport, publishes Death in the Afternoon, a non-fiction account of bullfighting in Spain       
1933
 
    
García Lorca writes his play Blood Wedding while he is director of a company touring in rural Spain       
1936
 
    
García Lorca writes his play The House of Bernarda Alba in the last year of his short life       
1936
 
    
A rebellion by Spanish troops in Morocco is soon led by Francisco Franco and sparks the Spanish Civil War       
1936
 
     
In the first month of the Spanish Civil War the playwright García Lorca is arrested and shot by rebel Falange militia