Federal Republic of Central America
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Was a sovereign state south of Mexico which existed from 1823 to 1841. It comprised Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, as well as parts of Belize and Mexico.
Establishment
July 1823: The Federal Republic of Central America declares its independence from the Mexican Empire.
July 1823: The Federal Republic of Central America was established in 1823, consisting of the former territories of the Captaincy General of Guatemala.
Chronology
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The short-lived First Mexican Empire ceased to exist in 1823 and fragmented in several successor states.
Was a civil war in the Federal Republic of Central America.
2.1.Morazan invades Guatemala
Was the invasion of Honduras by Francisco Morazán, leader of the rebels during thr Central American Civil War.
November 1827: Battle of La Trinidad. Morazan controls Honduras.
January 1829: General Francisco Morazán, a Central American political and military leader, led the Morazan Forces in the attack on Domínguez's forces in San José Pinula in 1829. This victory helped Morazán consolidate his power in the region.
February 1829: In 1829, the people of Antigua Guatemala rebelled against the conservative government led by Aycinena. They sought protection from General Morazán, a prominent liberal military leader in Central America. As a result, the department of Sacatepéquez came under the control of Morazán's forces.
April 1829: The head of state of Guatemala, Mariano de Aycinena y Piñol, capitulated and the next day the Central Plaza was occupied by Morazán's troops.
2.2.Morazan invades El Salvador
Was the invasion of El Salvador by Francisco Morazán, leader of the rebels during thr Central American Civil War.
May 1828: After the coup of Morazan in Honduras, El-Salvador tried to invade Honduras to disestablish his regime, but they failed and so morazan counterattacked. In April 1828, Morazán headed for El Salvador with a force of 1,400 men.
September 1828: In 1828, the Morazan Forces successfully captured the territories of Mejicanos and San Salvador.
October 1828: General Francisco Morazán marched in Ahuachapán in 1828.
Was civil war in Costa Rica, a member state of the Federal Republic of Central America at the time.
September 1835: In 1835, Heredia, a province in Costa Rica, joined forces with Cartago and Alajuela in the League of Three Cities.
September 1835: Almost immediately Alajuela accepted the Ulloa government.
September 1835: In 1835, the city of Cartago defied the government of Braulio Carrillo by appointing coffee grower Nicolás Ulloa Soto as Head of State. This move aimed to reinstate the Ambulance Law, a significant piece of legislation in the League of the Three Cities.
October 1835: Forces of Alajuela and Heredia, with some 3,000 men under the command of Alajuela Colonel José Ángel Soto, invaded San Juan del Murciélago.
October 1835: In early October, the militias of Cartago , Alajuela and Heredia besieged San José.
October 1835: After the Battle of Cuesta de Moras sergeant Major Manuel Quijano took the city of Cartago.
October 1835: The heredianos and alajuelenses were defeated in several combats. Finally, Heredia and Alajuela were occupied by Government forces the night of October 28.
January 1831: In 1830, Central American troops entered the Soconusco to pursue a political dissident, but troops from highland Chiapas countered their entrance.
January 1837: In 1836 there was the so-called "Colombian Usurpation" in which Colombia took over the territory that is currently Bocas del Toro, which belonged to Costa Rica which could not do anything about it.
May 1838: Nicaragua became an independent republic in its own right in 1838.
November 1838: Independence declared, as Honduras, from the Federal Republic of Central America.
January 1839: In 1838, Costa Rica formally withdrew from the Federal Republic of Central America and proclaimed itself sovereign.
February 1841: Indipendence of El Salvador from the Federal Republic of Central America.
May 1843: In 1842, a ship sent by King Leopold I of Belgium arrived in Guatemala. Tthe Belgians observed the natural riches of the department of Izabal and decided to settle in Santo Tomas de Castilla and build infrastructure in the region. Rafael Carrera gave them the region in exchange for sixteen thousand pesos every year from the government of Guatemala. On 4 May 1843, the Guatemalan parliament issued a decree giving the district of Santo Tomás "in perpetuity" to the Compagnie belge de colonisation, a private Belgian company under the protection of King Leopold I of Belgium. The concession did not become a colony in the political sense. Article 4 of the May 1842 Acte de concession clearly stated that the cession of the territory to the Belgian company did not involve, implicitly or explicitly, a cession of sovereignty over the territory.
March 1847: Guatemala declared itself an independent republic and Carrera became its first president.
Disestablishment
March 1847: Guatemala declared itself an independent republic and Carrera became its first president.
