Timeline Wednesday 19 August 1936

Events on Wednesday 19 August 1936 3

• 1898 – 1936 Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) Died 19 August 1936, aged 38 Federico García Lorca was a Spanish poet and playwright whose works include Blood Wedding and Gypsy Ballads. Nationalist forces shot him near Granada in the first weeks of the Civil War. His remains have never been found.
• 1898 – 1936 Federico García Lorca Poet and Martyr Renowned poet and playwright executed by nationalist forces at the start of the Civil War.
• 1936 Trial of the Sixteen First of the Moscow show trials Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and fourteen other Old Bolsheviks were tried in Moscow on invented charges of plotting with Trotsky. All sixteen were sentenced to death and shot straight after the verdict. The trial marked the start of the Great Purge's public phase.