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Biography of José Félix Ribas

(1775/09/19 - 1815/01/31)

José Félix Ribas
Military hero, Venezuelan independence

He was born on September 19, 1775 in Caracas.
Son of Marcos Ribas and Petronila Herrera Martinez. From a very small received a good education.
He felt inclination to become a religious of the order of San Francisco; However, he decided to devote himself to take care of their lands and properties in the field. From 1808 he attended conspiratorial nature meetings that took place in Caracas, and whose main leaders were the brothers Bolivar. He was 24 years old when he witnessed the execution, in the main square of Caracas, of José María Spain, on May 8, 1799.
Félix Ribas was a member of the Board of Supreme created April 19, 1810. In the year 1812, first exiled in Curacao and then in New Granada, he joined Simón Bolívar in the campaign of 1813. From a young age he was closely linked to Bolivar, not only by a great friendship, but by family ties that would be created once José Felix to marry an aunt, immediately becoming a political guy of the Liberator.
He beat in Niquitao (July 2) and Los Horcones (July 11). He was promoted to general of division and appointed commanding general of Caracas. In The victory he beat José Tomás Rodríguez Boves, assisted by students of the University and the Seminary (12 February 1814). He won also in Ocumare del Tuy (March 20, 1814) and the battle of Carabobo (May 28, 1814), Santiago Mariñoand Bolívar. On December 5, 1814, Ribas and Bermudez clashed with his army of 4,000 soldiers to the 7,000 Boves realists in a bloody battle in uric. General Boves died in that episode.
Due to the defeat suffered in the second Republic, Ribas sought out of Los Llanos to Caracas in the company of a nephew and a servant, but he was intercepted by a realistic game. His nephew and servant were executed immediately. Ribas was to be brought before the justice Tucupido, realistic general Lieutenant stood in Valle de la Pascua, but this was opposed and ordered executed in place.
On January 31, 1815 in Tucupido, his head was cut and fried in oil to be carried later to Caracas and Barcelona.

Biography of Alvaro Obregon

(19/02/1880 - 1928/07/17)

Alvaro Obregon
General and Mexican politician, President of the Republic (1920-1924)

He was born on February 19, 1880 near Alamos ( Sonora State).
In 1912, during the Mexican Revolution, he organized a force consisting of some 300 Indians live in support of the revolutionary President Francisco i. Madero, facing an uprising led by Pascual Orozco.
Upon the death of Madero in 1913, he supported Venustiano Carranza. He helped submit the different rebel forces led by Francisco Villa and Emiliano Zapata. He lost his right arm in a battle near León against Villa. To be elected as President Carranza in 1915, he was appointed Secretary of war, post where he remained until the year 1917.
Faced with politically Carranza, he participated in the Plan of Agua Prieta, whose final result was the assassination of the President. The verified Powers Federal elections proved triumphant general Obregón, who took over the Presidency in November 1920.
He began labour, agricultural and educational reforms for which counted with the collaboration of intellectuals and politicians both working-class and peasant groups. It decreased the army to not more than 60, 000 troops; he resumed diplomatic relations with the United States; it celebrated the 100th anniversary of the consummation of independence and with that reason commanded mint coins to replace the Carranza tickets; He ordered repair wiring Telegraph and the railroad tracks; established rules for the election and operation of the diplomatic and consular corps.
Your implementation of the revolutionary 1917 program ran into strong resistance from conservative groups and the Catholic Church. After being reformed the Constitution, which prevented it, he was reelected President in 1928, but before you can take possession of the charge he was assassinated at a banquet that was held in his honor on July 17, 1928.
A draughtsman came to him to show him a caricature his, and while Obregón watched her, shot him at point blank range.

Biography of Fernando el Católico - Fernando II of Aragon - Fernando V of Castile

(1452/03/10 - 1516/01/23)

Fernando II the Catholic King
King of Aragon (1479-1516) and by marriage King consort of Castile with the name of Fernando V (1474-1516)

He was born March 10, 1452 in Sos del Rey Católico. Son of Juan II Aragon and Juana Enríquez.
Renaissance politician, reportedly was the inspiration for the work of Machiavelli 'Prince'. It resisted the siege of the army of the Generalitat during the Catalan Civil War (1462-1472). He was Governor general of Aragon and Catalonia in 1466 and two years later co-regent of Sicily.
To marry the Princess Isabella of Castile, sister of Henry IV, projected his figure towards the policy of Castilla, effectively fighting the claims to the throne of Juana la Beltraneja. The succession war ended with the Treaty of Alcáçovas (1479). Upon the death of his father, and thank you to your wedding was the union of the Crown of Aragon with the Castilla, respecting the laws and institutions of each Kingdom.
As King of Aragon introduced the sortition (draw) in the choice of charges and applied protectionist trade and industry. A new insurrection of the remences led an agreed solution: the Arbitral ruling of Guadalupe(1486). He got the return of Roussillon and Cerdanya (1493) and conquered the Kingdom of Naples. In 1492 ended, along with his wife, the Queen of Castile Isabel I, the conquest of the Muslim Kingdom of Granada, with which the reconquest was completed.
Between 1484 and 1496 the Canary Islands were conquered and colonized, and there was the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
The Catholic monarchs responds to the title that the Pope granted Alexander VI in 1496. One of the main problems of domestic policy was the religious question: the Inquisition (1478) was created to control the faith of the converts. The Jews were expelled in 1492 and became only a minority. The population Muslim opted mainly for the conversion (1502) -moriscos- and only a few were expelled. Its matrimonial alliances with Portugal, England and the House of Habsburg policy bore positive fruit.
The King had taken the Castilian Crown after the death of Elizabeth (1504), but withdrew because of the low acceptance by the Castilian nobility and gave it to his daughter Juana. The death of Philip the handsome, his son-in-law, made that he was accepted again as a Regent. Navarre was incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile (1515), they conquered some squares in the North Africa - Oran and spark plug - and obtained the submission of the King of Algiers.
Fernando II returned to marriage with Germaine of Foixin 1506. The early death of the son of this marriage and the appointment of his grandson Charles (the future Charles I and Emperor Carlos V) as Governor general of their kingdoms became that, at his death, was established the dynastic union between the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon.
Ferdinand II became Testament on 22 January, and died a day later on the 23 January 1516 to 2.00 h in the morning in Madrigalejo, Cáceres.

Biography of Guadalupe Victoria

(1786/09/29 - 1843/03/21)

Guadalupe Victoria
Manuel and Miguel Félix Fernández
Mexican military

He was born on September 29, 1786 in Tamazula, Durango.
He fought in the War of independence next to Morelos. After the proclamation of the Plan of Iguala, was presented to Iturbide and proposed a change in the plan, but ignored him, and on the contrary, we are commanded to arrest when he learned of the conspiracy against him.
It became known as Guadalupe Victoria as the Virgin of Guadalupe the patron saint of the independent movement and by the victory. After joining the two executive powers, Congress elected him as President of Mexico and Nicolás Bravo as Vice President. He took the 10 October 1824 and handed the Presidency on March 31, 1829.
During his Government capitulated the Spanish garrison which still retained in their possession Castle of San Juan de Ulúa, against Veracruz on November 18, 1825.
In 1841, he married María Antonieta Bretón and Velázquez.
Guadalupe Victoria died at the Fort in Perote, Veracruz, victim of epileptic attacks, on March 21, 1843.