2019 and forward.
Nayib Bukele won the elections on 2019.
Salvador Sánchez Cerén who the presidency representing the left far party FMLN.
2014
2011
October - Torrential rains cause flooding across Central America, killing several people in El Salvador.
2009
Former Marxist rebel Mauricio Funes of the FMLN party wins presidential elections.
2005
October - Thousands flee as the Ilamatepec volcano, also known as Santa Ana, erupts. Days later scores of people are killed as Tropical Storm Stan sweeps through.
2001
January, February - Massive earthquakes kill 1,200 people and render another one million homeless.
1994-1999
Right far Arena party lead the country.
Acuerdos de Pax de Chapultepec
1992
Student assassination Jul30th, 1975
FMLN attacks intensify; another Arena candidate, Alfredo Cristiani, voted president in elections widely believed to have been rigged.
1989
1975
Right-wing National Conciliation Party (PCN) comes to power after a military coup.
1961
El Salvador becomes fully independent following the dissolution of the United Provinces of Central America.
1840
Indigenous resistance finally crushed and El Salvador becomes a Spanish colony.
1540
Archbishop of San Salvador and human rights campaigner Oscar Romero assassinated.
1980
El Salvador attacks and fights a brief war with Honduras following the eviction of thousands of Salvadoran illegal immigrants from Honduras.
1969
Some 30,000 people are killed during the suppression of a peasant uprising led by Agustin Farabundo Marti.
1932
El Salvador gains independence from Spain.
1821
El Salvador timeline
A Spanish adventurer Pedro de Alvarado conquers El Salvador.
1524
