24 de Mayo de 1822

  Historia del Teatro  Abstract  Theatre, the artistic genre in which literature (dramaturgy) and the performing arts (theatrical performance) come together, is one of humanity's oldest forms of artistic expression. Although its origin commonly dates back to classical antiquity in the West, the truth is that almost all ancient cultures had some form of theatre or spectacle very similar, with which they educated their young people, prayed to their gods or remembered their founding myths. However, the first to understand theatre as an art form in itself, i.e. as "dramatic art", were the ancient Greeks from the 6th to 4th centuries BC.  The ancient Greeks celebrated certain religious rituals in honor of Dionysus, god of wine and fertility, known as the bacchanals. In these rites, dance and trance states were normal, but so was a certain narrative and staging of the founding myths, and the latter was what gave rise to the theater.  It originated in the 6th...

  24 de mayo de 1822:  Batalla del Pichincha   Abstract The Battle of Pichincha was a military confrontation framed within the Latin American wars of independence. It took place on May 24, 1822 and took its name from the volcano next to which it developed, located in the vicinity of the city of Quito. Years earlier, in 1809, the struggle for independence had begun in present-day Ecuador. After almost a decade, the situation favored the separatists over Spain, although there were still many territories in royalist hands. The antecedents of the Battle of Pichincha can be found in the military campaign that took place in Guayaquil. There, a Governing Council was formed to spread the independence movement to other provinces. One of the leaders of independence, Antonio José de Sucre, planned his next move from that city. Finally, on the slopes of the Pichincha volcano, the rebels, led by Sucre, and the royalist army, commanded by General Melchor Aymerich, clashed. The vic...