García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
Macondo becomes the peak of magical realism
In 1967 Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez published in Buenos Aires his novel of the Buendía family and the town of Macondo. It became the high point of magical realism and the Latin American Boom, selling tens of millions of copies.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1945 Founding of the United Nations — 22 years earlier
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 20 years earlier
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 19 years earlier
- 1949 Founding of NATO — 18 years earlier
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 13 years later
Europe
- 1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix — 14 years earlier
- 1961 Berlin Wall built — 6 years earlier
- 1968 May 1968 in France — 1 year later
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 22 years later
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 22 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1945 German surrender and Victory Day — 22 years earlier
- 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite — 10 years earlier
- 1961 Gagarin's flight — 6 years earlier
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 18 years later
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 22 years later
Middle East
- 1948 Founding of the State of Israel — 19 years earlier
- 1979 Iranian Revolution — 12 years later
- 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War — 13 years later
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 23 years later
Africa
- 1960 Year of Africa — 7 years earlier
- 1963 The Organisation of African Unity is founded — 4 years earlier
- 1967 First human heart transplant — same year
- 1967–1970 Nigerian Civil War and Biafra — same year
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — 7 years later
Asia
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — 22 years earlier
- 1953 First ascent of Everest — 14 years earlier
- 1964 First Shinkansen high-speed railway — 3 years earlier
- 1970 Bhola cyclone — 3 years later
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 8 years later
Oceania
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 25 years earlier
- 1954 The Castle Bravo test at Bikini — 13 years earlier
- 1959 The Antarctic Treaty — 8 years earlier
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 25 years later
Alive at the time
- Pablo Picasso (aged 86)
- Charlie Chaplin (aged 78)
- Mao Zedong (aged 74)
- Nelson Mandela (aged 49)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (aged 38)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 37)
- Yuri Gagarin (aged 33)
- Harry S. Truman (aged 83)
- Ho Chi Minh (aged 77)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (aged 77)