El Salvador - Notable Historical Events
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El Salvador - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1811-11-05 |
El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence |
1821-09-15 |
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua gain independence |
1895-06-20 |
Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation |
1895-06-28 |
El Salvador, Honduras & Nicaragua form Central American Union |
1913-10-29 |
Floods in El Salvador kill thousands. |
1921-01-19 |
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union |
1922-01-29 |
Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved |
1932-01-23 |
El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers |
1953-07-07 |
Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. |
1961-01-25 |
Military coup in El Salvador |
1969-06-27 |
Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match |
1969-07-14 |
"Futbol War" between El Salvador & Honduras begins |
1979-10-15 |
Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees |
1980-10-30 |
Honduras & El Salvador settle their boundary dispute |
1980-11-18 |
Honduras & El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969) |
1980-12-02 |
4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador |
1981-01-10 |
El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive" |
1981-11-16 |
President Reagan decides on a covert plan to block the Cuban aid to Nicaragua and El Salvador |
1981-11-20 |
El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "limited offensive" |
1981-12-10 |
-13] El Salvador army kills 900 |
1982-03-17 |
4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador |
1982-03-28 |
JN Duartes' Christian Democrats win elections in El Salvador |
1982-04-29 |
Alfredo Magana elected pres of El Salvador |
1982-04-30 |
Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as pres of El Salvador |
1983-01-21 |
President Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid |
1983-12-20 |
El Salvador adopts constitution |
1984-05-06 |
Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election |
1985-03-31 |
El Salvador's Pres Duartes' Christian-Democrats win election |
1986-10-10 |
7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador |
1988-02-16 |
1st documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador |
1989-11-05 |
US plays El Salvador in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
1993-11-18 |
27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador |
1994-03-20 |
El Salvador's 1st pres election following 12-year-old civil war |
1994-04-24 |
Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election |
2001-01-13 |
Earthquake measuring magnitude 7.6 strikes El Salvador, killing more than 840 people |
2001-02-13 |
An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400. |
2013-12-29 |
The volcano, Chaparrastique, erupts in El Salvador |
2016-04-09 |
Panama papers: Mossack Fonseca offices in El Salvador raided |
2016-11-25 |
Magnitude 7.0 Offshore Quake Rattles El Salvador |
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El Salvador - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1900-03-04 |
Roberto Soundy, El Salvador, trap shooter (Olympic-1968) |
1917-08-15 |
Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman catholic priest (d. 1980) |
1925-11-25 |
Jose Napoleon Duarte, president El Salvador |
1946-08-09 |
Dean Brackley, Return to El Salvador |
1947-11-22 |
Alfredo Cristiani, president of El Salvador (1989-94) |
1976-04-22 |
Milena Mayorga, Miss Universe-El Salvador (1996) |
1977-10-12 |
Carmen Carrillo Vilanova, Miss El Salvador Universe (1997) |
El Salvador - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1980-12-25 |
Oscar Romero, archbishop of El Salvador, murdered |
1982-03-17 |
Hans ter Laag, Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador |
1982-03-17 |
Jan Kuiper, Dutch news editor (IKON), murdered in El Salvador |
1982-03-17 |
Joop Willemsen, Dutch cameraman, murdered in El Salvador |
1982-03-17 |
Koos Koster, Dutch newscaster (IKON), murdered in El Salvador |
1991-02-28 |
Guillermo Ungo, member of El Salvador junta (1979-80), dies |
1993-03-31 |
Jose Maria Lemus, president of El Salvador (1956-60), dies |
1993-10-25 |
Francisco Velis, El Salvador guerilla leader (FMLN), murdered |
1994-11-26 |
Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of El Salvador (1980-94), dies at 71 |
2003-02-28 |
Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (b. 1917) |
2011-10-16 |
Dean Brackley, Return to El Salvador |
2016-01-31 |
Former president of El Salvador Francisco Flores dead at 56 |
