1936 mass killings in Madrid. It took place in December 1936 in what is now Spain. The setting was Paracuellos de Jarama and Torrejón de Ardoz. It was part of the Spanish Civil War and Red Terror. Those involved included Santiago Carrillo, Segundo Serrano Poncela, Mikhail Koltsov and Alexander Orlov. About 2,400 people died.
Before and after
- 29 September 1936Birth of Silvio Berlusconi
- 5 October 1936Birth of Václav Havel
- 19 October 1936Death of Lu Xun
- 25 November 1936Anti-Comintern Pact
- December 1936Paracuellos massacres
- from 5 December 1936 to 9 October 1991Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
- 10 December 1936Death of Luigi Pirandello
- 17 December 1936Birth of Pope Francis
- 1937Discovery of technetium
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