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15 events of the 20th century that marked El Salvador.

-Independence process in El Salvador

El Salvador gains independence from Spain. Conflict ensues over territory's incorporation into Mexican empire under Creole general Agustin de Iturbide.

1821

Federal Republic of America Central

El Salvador becomes part of the United Provinces of Central America, which also includes Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

1823

El Salvador becomes fully independent following the dissolution of the United Provinces of Central America.

1840

PEASANT UPRISING

1932

The Massacre" was a peasant uprising that started on January 22, 1932 in the western departments of El Salvador. It was suppressed by the government, then led by President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez.

SIT-DOWN STRIKE

The authoritarian and eccentric General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez became president of El Salvador after a military coup overthrew the freely elected government of Arturo Araujo in 1931.

1944

The Football War also known as 100 Hour War, was a brief war fought between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. Existing tensions between the two countries coincided with rioting during a 1970 FIFA World Cup qualifier. The war began on 14 July 1969, when the Salvadoran military launched an attack against Honduras. The Organization of American States (OAS) negotiated a cease-fire on the night of 18 July, which took full effect on 20 July. Salvadoran troops were withdrawn in early August.

-Football War

1969

Kidnapping and kill of Ernesto Regalado Dueñas

On February 11, 1971, an armed group known as “El Grupo” intercepted Ernesto Regalado Dueñas while he was driving to his office. The perpetrators demanded that he get out of his car and get into another car at gunpoint. The Group, a murderer, has Regalado Dueñas, on October 19 of the same year, the body was abandoned in the Calle a San Antonio-Abad, the body was thrown on the side of the street, his eyes were bandaged with adhesive tape, he was bound hand and foot and had two fatal bullets to the head.

1971

The murder of Monsignor Romero

Church in mourned and pain

1980

On the afternoon of March 24, 1980, while officiating a mass in the chapel of the La Divina Providencia Hospital, the Archbishop of San Salvador, Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was shot dead by a sharpshooter.

Victims of the armed conflict

1991

The fatal balance of Lieutenant Colonel David J. Piquet, the aviation technician Ernest Dawson and the pilot Daniel Scott, US military advisers

PEACE ACCORDS

The El Salvador Peace Accords are a set of commitments agreed between the Government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), supported by the United Nations (UN)

1992

Visit of President Barack Obama

2011

The president OF the Usa, Barack Obama, visited the country on a tour that he made in Latin America.

SITRAMS

The construction of a special lane in San to be used by the SiTRAMS transportation system was completed with this system, the state transport of the capital is modernized in a sertain way

2015

New Ideas

2017

A new political party, New Ideas , was founded

Festivities of El Salvador.

These festivities are celebrated in honor of Divino Salvador del Mundo from August 1 to 6 of each year.

El Salvador's festivities are popular celebrations that are held year after year in the country's municipalities, cities, or towns to bring joy to it although each of these festivities also has a religious background.

THE START OF THE VACCINATION PROCESS AGAINST COVID-19 IN EL SALVADOR.

February 17, 2021, In El Salvador, the vaccination process against cOVID-19 is started, which begins with front-line personnel. Being one of the first countries to achieve immunity in the population with the vaccination process.

2021