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Historical Timeline for Guatemala - A chronology of key events
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Guatemala Timeline[edit | edit source]

Date Event
25,000 BC AD Arrival of the first men, ancestors of the Mayas on the current territory of Guatemala.
3000 BC AD Sedentarization of the first farmers.
300 BC AD Beginning of the Mayan era.
300 AD AD Beginning of the classical era, heyday of the Mayas.
900 Sudden decline of the Mayas, abandonment of the great cities.
1523 Arrival of Pedro de Alvarado in Guatemala.
1542 Foundation of Antigua.
1773 Destruction of Antigua and foundation of Guatemala Ciudad.
1821 September 15. Independence of Guatemala within the United Mexican States.
1841 March 21. Guatemala becomes a sovereign state.
1898 The dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera comes to power.
1899 Creation of the United Fruit Company.
1930 Advent of General Ubico.
1945 Juan José Arevalo comes to power. Beginning of social reforms.
1951 Election of Jacobo Arbenz, agrarian reforms. Redistribution of land.
1954 Coup d'Etat orchestrated by the CIA and United Fruit Compagny. Back to dictatorship.
1962 Beginning of the guerrillas.
1976 The most violent earthquake in the country's history. It kills 23,000.
1985 After a succession of dictatorships since 1970 (Osorio, García, Ríos Montt ...), election of the Christian Democrat Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo.
1991 Election of Jorge Serrano, of the MAS party (Solidarity Action Movement).
1994 General Ríos Montt, in power in 1982 during the worst massacres of the war, was president of the Congress, the only chamber of the state, until 1995.
1996 Election to the presidency of the Republic of Álvaro Arzu Irigoyen.
1996 June. Peace agreements between the government and the URNG (union of guerrillas) of Rolando Morán, marking the end of 36 years of civil war.
1998 Assassination of Bishop Gerardi, director of the human rights office of the Archdiocese of Guatemala, at the publication of his book Guatemala, Nunca Más, describing the atrocities of the war, largely attributed to the army.
1998 Hurricane Mitch. Results: 253 dead and 191,000 homeless.
1999 Election of Alfonso Antonio Portillo, of the Republican Front, close to General Ríos Montt. The latter is again elected at the head of the Congress.
2003 The Portillo government is accused of being the most corrupt in the country's history. In July, Ríos Montt obtained the eligibility for the presidential elections, which the court refused him: his supporters violently invaded the capital. In December, the elections opposed him to Oscar Berger (moderate right), mayor of Guatemala Ciudad for eight years. This one wins them by a few points.
2008 Álvaro Colom (center left), elected president, takes office in November 2007, following a campaign marked by numerous political assassinations.
2009 May. Major anti- and pro-Álvaro Colom protests following the broadcast of a video accusing the president and his relatives of murder and money laundering.
2010 Extradition to the United States of former President Alfonso Portillo, accused of embezzlement of public funds between 2000 and 2004.
2012 Former General Otto Perez Molina of the Partido Patriota (right) came to power, elected president in November 2011 to put an end to the violence affecting the whole country.
September 3, 2015 Incarceration of Otto Pérez Molina, wet in a dark corruption scandal. Alejandro Maldonado is completing the remaining four months in office.
January 14, 2015 Former Guatemalan television comic star Jimmy Morales wins the presidential elections thanks to his campaign based on the fight against state corruption. His lack of knowledge of the political world also plays in his favor with the population.
August 2017 Jimmy Morales declares UN-mandated anti-corruption magistrate Iván Velásquez persona non grata because of the latter's revelations about the illegal financing of Morales's presidential campaign in 2015. The following month, Morales's son and brother are charged with tax evasion.
December 25, 2017 Guatemala, in the person of its president, is the first country to show its support for the United States in its recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
February 1, 2018 The Guatemalan authorities make public the discovery of Mayan ruins: some 60,000 items spread over 2,000 square kilometers are indeed buried not far from the Tikal site, under the dense vegetation of Petén.
March 4, 2018 Jimmy Morales announces that the Guatemalan Embassy in Israel will be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May, just after the move of the United States.

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