Caste War of Yucatán
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Was a revolt of native Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula against Hispanic populations.
Chronology
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June 1839: The rebels took over Valladolid, Espita, Izamal and, finally Mérida on the Yucatán peninsula.
May 1839: A federalist movement led by Santiago Imán created a rival government in Tizimín, which soon took over Valladolid, Espita, Izamal and, finally Mérida on the Yucatán peninsula.
March 1840: In February 1840, Manuel Crescencio Rejón, a prominent liberal leader, proclaimed Yucatan's return to a federal regime. This move was in opposition to the Centralist Republic of Mexico, led by President Anastasio Bustamante.
March 1841: The Republic of Yucatán (Spanish: República de Yucatán) was a sovereign state during two periods of the nineteenth century. The first Republic of Yucatán, founded May 29, 1823, willingly joined the Mexican federation as the Federated Republic of Yucatán on December 23, 1823, less than seven months later. The second Republic of Yucatán began in 1841, with its declaration of independence from the Centralist Republic of Mexico.
January 1842: In 1841, Mexican politician Santiago Méndez Ibarra and military leader Santiago Imán declared the Yucatán Peninsula an independent republic, known as the Yucatan Republic, in response to political and economic grievances with the Mexican government.
June 1848: By spring of 1848, the Maya forces had taken over most of the Yucatán, with the exception of the walled cities of Campeche and Mérida and the southwest coast.
August 1848: Yucatán was officially reunited with Mexico.
January 1871: The Maya briefly took Corozal Town in 1870.
May 1901: In 1901 Mexican general Ignacio Bravo managed to defeat the Maya rebels. Bravo telegraphed the news that the war was over on May 5, 1901.
September 1872: After the Battle of Orange Walk the maya withdrew to their territories.
January 1851: Yucateco forces rallied, aided by fresh guns, money, and troops from Mexico City, and pushed back the Maya from more than half of the state.
By 1850 the Maya occupied two distinct regions in the southeast. In the 1850s a stalemate developed, with the Yucatecan government in control of the northwest, and the Maya in control of the southeast, with a sparsely populated jungle frontier in between.
