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Timeline: Guatemala                                                         A chronology of key events:                                   2000 BC- 250 AD: Mayan Preclassic Period                

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Timeline: Guatemala                                                         A chronology of key events:                                   2000 BC- 250 AD: Mayan Preclassic Period                

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250 AD- 900 AD: Mayan Classic Period during which many Maya cities reached theirhistorically recognized height of making great contributions.

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250 AD- 900 AD: Mayan Classic Period during which many Maya cities reached theirhistorically recognized height of making great contributions.

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900 AD – 1523: Mayan Post classic Period. At its peak, the Mayan Civilization wasone of the most densely populated and culturally dynamicsocieties in the world. 

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900 AD – 1523: Mayan Post classic Period. At its peak, the Mayan Civilization wasone of the most densely populated and culturally dynamicsocieties in the world. 

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1523-24: Spanish adventurer Pedro de Alvarado defeats the indigenousMaya and turns Guatemala into a Spanish colony.

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1523-24: Spanish adventurer Pedro de Alvarado defeats the indigenousMaya and turns Guatemala into a Spanish colony.

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1823: Guatemala becomes part of the United Provinces of CentralAmerica, which also include Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.

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1823: Guatemala becomes part of the United Provinces of CentralAmerica, which also include Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.

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1873-85: Guatemala ruled by liberal President Justo Rufino Barrios, who modernizes the country, develops the army and introduces coffee growing.

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1873-85: Guatemala ruled by liberal President Justo Rufino Barrios, who modernizes the country, develops the army and introduces coffee growing.

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1931: Jorge Ubico becomes president; his tenure is marked by repressive rule and then by an improvement in the country's finances.

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1931: Jorge Ubico becomes president; his tenure is marked by repressive rule and then by an improvement in the country's finances.

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1993: Serrano forced to resign after his attempt to impose anauthoritarian regime ignites a wave of protests; Ramiro de LeonCarpio elected president by the legislature.

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1993: Serrano forced to resign after his attempt to impose anauthoritarian regime ignites a wave of protests; Ramiro de LeonCarpio elected president by the legislature.

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1994: Peace talks between the government and rebels of the Guatemalan Revolutionary National Unity begin; right-wing parties win a majority in legislative elections.

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1994: Peace talks between the government and rebels of the Guatemalan Revolutionary National Unity begin; right-wing parties win a majority in legislative elections.

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1982: General Efrain Rios Montt (b. 1926) gains power following military coup. He was responsible for some of the worst atrocities committed during the war.   

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1982: General Efrain Rios Montt (b. 1926) gains power following military coup. He was responsible for some of the worst atrocities committed during the war.   

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1999: UN-backed commission says security forces were behind 93% ofall human rights atrocities committed during the civil war, whichclaimed 200,000 lives, and that senior officials had overseen 626massacres in Maya villages.

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1999: UN-backed commission says security forces were behind 93% ofall human rights atrocities committed during the civil war, whichclaimed 200,000 lives, and that senior officials had overseen 626massacres in Maya villages.

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2001: December - President Portillo pays $1.8 million in compensation to the families of 226 men, women and children killed by soldiers and para militaries in the northern village of Las Dos Erres in 1982.

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2001: December - President Portillo pays $1.8 million in compensation to the families of 226 men, women and children killed by soldiers and para militaries in the northern village of Las Dos Erres in 1982.

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2002: September - Guatemala and Belize agree on draft settlement to their long-standing border dispute at talks brokered by Organization of American States (OAS). Both nations will hold referendums on draft settlement.

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2002: September - Guatemala and Belize agree on draft settlement to their long-standing border dispute at talks brokered by Organization of American States (OAS). Both nations will hold referendums on draft settlement.

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2003: December - Conservative businessman Oscar Berger - a formermayor of Guatemala City - wins presidential election in second round. Guatemala - along with Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras - agrees on free-trade agreement with US.

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2003: December - Conservative businessman Oscar Berger - a formermayor of Guatemala City - wins presidential election in second round. Guatemala - along with Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras - agrees on free-trade agreement with US.

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2004: December - UN mission, set up to monitor post-civil war peace process, winds up. But UN says Guatemala still suffers from crime,social injustice, human rights violations.

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2004: December - UN mission, set up to monitor post-civil war peace process, winds up. But UN says Guatemala still suffers from crime,social injustice, human rights violations.

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2005: October - Hundreds of people are killed as Tropical Storm Stansweeps through, triggering lands lides and floods. November - Guatemala's leading anti-drugs investigator isarrested in the US on charges of drug trafficking.

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2005: October - Hundreds of people are killed as Tropical Storm Stansweeps through, triggering lands lides and floods. November - Guatemala's leading anti-drugs investigator isarrested in the US on charges of drug trafficking.

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2009: September - An ex-paramilitary officer, Felipe Cusanero, becomes the first person to be jailed for the forced disappearance of civilians in Guatemala's civil war.

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2009: September - An ex-paramilitary officer, Felipe Cusanero, becomes the first person to be jailed for the forced disappearance of civilians in Guatemala's civil war.

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2006: December - Government and the UN agree to create acommission - to be known as the CICIG - to identify and dismantle powerful clandestine armed groups.

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2006: December - Government and the UN agree to create acommission - to be known as the CICIG - to identify and dismantle powerful clandestine armed groups.

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2007: November - Alvaro Colom of centre-left National Unity of Hope Party wins presidential elections with nearly 53 percent of thevote. Rigoberta Menchu, a campaigner for Mayan rights, is the first female indigenous presidential candidate.

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2007: November - Alvaro Colom of centre-left National Unity of Hope Party wins presidential elections with nearly 53 percent of thevote. Rigoberta Menchu, a campaigner for Mayan rights, is the first female indigenous presidential candidate.

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2008: November - Fifteen bus passengers including a Dutch national ares hot dead and then set on fire in eastern Guatemala in what police believe to be a drug-related incident.

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2008: November - Fifteen bus passengers including a Dutch national ares hot dead and then set on fire in eastern Guatemala in what police believe to be a drug-related incident.