se passer

Personne ne peut oublier ou ignorer ce qui se passa.
No one can forget or ignore what happened.
Une heure se passa. Je commençais à éprouver une faim violente.
An hour passed. I began to feel a violent hunger.
Ce jour-là, malheureusement, rien ne se passa comme prévu.
On this day, unfortunately, nothing went according to plan.
Ceci se passa en juin, juillet et août 1918.
This occurred in June, July and August, 1918.
Cela se passa lors de l'un de mes voyages dans le Paradis.
It happened during one of my trips into heaven.
Et la soirée se passa merveilleusement bien.
And the evening went wonderfully well.
Dans la tradition populaire, cela se passa en 1600, et non en 1609.
In popular tradition, it happened in 1600, not 1609.
Puis quelque chose se passa en 1980.
And then something happened in 1980.
Mais ce n’est pas ce qui se passa.
But this is not what happened.
Il se passa quelque chose qui ne lui était jamais arrivé auparavant.
And then something happened that had never happened to her before.
Tout se passa en quelques secondes.
Everything happened in the space of a few seconds.
Ainsi se passa cette première nuit au fond du cratère.
That was how our first night at the bottom of the crater was spent.
On y alla donc et tout se passa fort bien.
We set off and everything went well.
Rien ne se passa pendant trois heures.
And nothing happened for the next three hours.
Pendant deux ans, il ne se passa rien.
For two years, nothing happened.
Il se lava les mains et se passa un peu d'eau froide sur les joues.
He washed his hands and splashed some cold water on his cheeks.
Un jour quelque chose se passa lorsque nous étions en train de faire des tests.
Well, one day something happened while we were testing.
Tout se passa très bien.
Everything went very well.
La chose la plus étrange se passa après que la vision ait prit fin.
The strangest thing happened after the vision ended.
Tout se passa très vite.
It all happened very fast.
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