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Jacinto Benavente
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Jacinto Benavente

1866 – 1954 · aged 88

Spanish writer (1866-1954)

Born
12 Aug 1866 · Madrid
Died
14 Jul 1954 · Madrid
Part ofSpain264 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 101 years
  1. 12 Aug 1866BornBorn in Madrid
  2. 1912 – 1946RoleMember of the Royal Spanish Academy
  3. 1918 – 1919RoleMember of the Congress of Deputies
  4. 1922AwardNobel Prize in Literature
  5. 1924AwardDearest Son of Madrid
  6. 1924AwardGrand cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso XII
  7. 1944AwardGrand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise
  8. 1948 – 1954RolePresident
  9. 1950AwardGold Medal of Work Merit
  10. 1950AwardMedal of Work Merit
  11. 14 Jul 1954DiedDied in Madrid

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1866 – 1954).

  1. 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
  2. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  3. 1898Spanish–American War
  4. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  5. 1914 – 1918World War I
  6. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  7. 1917Balfour Declaration
  8. 1917February Revolution
  9. 1917October Revolution
  10. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  11. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  12. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  13. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  14. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  15. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  16. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  17. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1938Munich Agreement
  19. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  20. 1939 – 1945World War II
  21. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  22. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  23. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  24. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  25. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  26. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  27. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  28. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  30. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  31. 19541954 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (Spanish: [xaˈθinto βenaˈβente]; 12 August 1866 – 14 July 1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama".

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