History of Guatemala by Clarestine Estrella Ramos Menzie https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks Estrella Ramos en-us 2022-03-11 04:53:17 UTC 2022-03-11 05:29:07 UTC hello@padlet.com Timeline: Guatemala A chronology of key events: 2000 BC- 250 AD: Mayan Preclassic Period 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089813488 2022-03-11 04:56:10 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089813488 250 AD- 900 AD: Mayan Classic Period during which many Maya cities reached theirhistorically recognized height of making great contributions. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089814075 2022-03-11 04:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089814075 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. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089814702 2022-03-11 04:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089814702 1523-24: Spanish adventurer Pedro de Alvarado defeats the indigenousMaya and turns Guatemala into a Spanish colony. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089815275 2022-03-11 04:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089815275 1823: Guatemala becomes part of the United Provinces of CentralAmerica, which also include Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089816114 2022-03-11 04:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089816114 1873-85: Guatemala ruled by liberal President Justo Rufino Barrios, who modernizes the country, develops the army and introduces coffee growing. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089822740 2022-03-11 05:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089822740 1931: Jorge Ubico becomes president; his tenure is marked by repressive rule and then by an improvement in the country's finances. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089824606 2022-03-11 05:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089824606 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. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089830735 2022-03-11 05:11:02 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089830735 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. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089831889 2022-03-11 05:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089831889 1994: Peace talks between the government and rebels of the Guatemalan Revolutionary National Unity begin; right-wing parties win a majority in legislative elections. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089836732 2022-03-11 05:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089836732 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. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089841574 2022-03-11 05:18:58 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089841574 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. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089843356 2022-03-11 05:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089843356 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. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089844943 2022-03-11 05:21:49 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089844943 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. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089846026 2022-03-11 05:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089846026 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. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089847003 2022-03-11 05:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089847003 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. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089848166 2022-03-11 05:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089848166 2006: December - Government and the UN agree to create acommission - to be known as the CICIG - to identify and dismantle powerful clandestine armed groups. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089849092 2022-03-11 05:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089849092 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. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089850544 2022-03-11 05:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089850544 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. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089851267 2022-03-11 05:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089851267 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. 20224520 https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089852211 2022-03-11 05:27:57 UTC https://padlet.com/20224520/Bookmarks/wish/2089852211