Guatemala: Timeline

810   Temple of the Jaguar Priest constructed in Tikal National Park, Guatemala.

1525   Mixco Viejo, capital of the Pocomam Maya State, falls to the Spanish Conquistador Conquistador

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es of Pedro de Alvarado Pedro de Alvarado

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(in what is now Guatemala).

1527   Spanish Spain

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 conquest of Guatemala highlands completed; first Guatemala City founded (Ciudad Vieja).

1773   Antigua Guatemala is destroyed by an earthquake Earthquake

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 and the capital of Guatemala is moved to Guatemala City

1821   Guatemala, El Salvador El Salvador

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, Honduras Honduras

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, Nicaragua Nicaragua

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 and Costa Rica Costa Rica

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 gain independence from Spain Spain

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. (See History of Central America)

1922   Union of Costa Rica Costa Rica

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, Guatemala, Honduras Honduras

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 and El Salvador El Salvador

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 is dissolved

1945   Female suffrage in Guatemala and Japan Japan

is an island country [i] in East Asia [i]. ... 

1949   Severe flood Flood

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ing in Guatemala

1954   Military coup in Guatemala

1954   Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán steps down in a CIA-sponsored military coup-Operation PBSUCCESS-triggering a bloody civil war that would continue for more than 35 years.

1960   December 13 — Guatemala, El Salvador El Salvador

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, Nicaragua Nicaragua

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 and Honduras Honduras

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 found the Central American Common Market.

1976   In Guatemala and Honduras Honduras

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 an earthquake Earthquake

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 kills more than 22,000.

1980   The Spanish Embassy in Guatemala is taken down and set on fire, killing 36 people.

1996   Guatemala and the leaders of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36-year civil war Civil war

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.