El SALVADOR
"The Savior"
Elizabeth Tran and Angelica
6th period
EVENTS from 1500s-1800s
1524 - Spanish adventurer Pedro de Alvarado conquers El Salvador.
1540 - Indigenous resistance finally crushed and El Salvador becomes a Spanish colony.
1821 - El Salvador gains independence from Spain. Conflict ensues over territory's incorporation into Mexican empire under Creole general Agustin de Iturbide.
1823 - El Salvador becomes part of the United Provinces of Central America, which also includes Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
1840 - El Salvador becomes fully independent following the dissolution of the United Provinces of Central America.
1859-63 - President Gerardo Barrios introduces coffee growing.
Events from 1900s-2000s
1969 - El Salvador attacks and fights a brief war with Honduras following the eviction of thousands of Salvadoran illegal immigrants from Honduras.
1980 - Archbishop of San Salvador and human rights
campaigner Oscar Romero assassinated; Jose Napoleon Duarte becomes first civilian president since 1931.
2001 January, February - Massive earthquakes kill 1,200 people and render another one million homeless.
2002 July - US court holds two retired, US-based Salvadoran army generals responsible for civil war atrocities, orders them to compensate victims who brought case.
2003 August - 360 Salvadoran troops despatched to Iraq.
2003 December - El Salvador - along with Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala - agrees on a free-trade agreement with the US. The government ratifies the pact in December 2004.
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