Nicaragua

This article is about the specific polity Nicaragua and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Is a country in Central America. A former Spanish Colony, Nicaragua detached from Spain as part of the First Mexican Empire in 1821. It left Mexico as part of the Federal Republic of Central America and became an independent republic in its own right in 1838.

Establishment

May 1838: Nicaragua became an independent republic in its own right in 1838.

Chronology

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1. Filibuster War

William Walker, an American mercenary, invaded Nicaragua in 1855 with a small private army. He seized control of the country by 1856, but was ousted the following year.

October 1855: William Walker was an American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary who organized several private military expeditions into Central America, with the intention of establishing English-speaking colonies under his personal control, an enterprise then known as "filibustering". On October 13, he conquered Granada and took effective control of the country.

May 1857: Walker surrendered to Commander Charles Henry Davis of the United States Navy under the pressure of Costa Rica and the Central American armies, and was repatriated.

2. Banana Wars

were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898 and the inception of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1934.

2.1.United States occupation of Nicaragua

Was the U.S. invasion of Nicaragua in 1916. The United States would leave the army only in 1934.

June 1916: Nicaragua assumed a quasi-protectorate status of the U.S. under the 1916 Bryan-Chamorro Treaty.

January 1934: In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, invoking his new Good Neighbor policy, ended the American intervention in Nicaragua.

3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1845: The Mosquito Kingdom was a British protectorate located on the Mosquito Coast, which is now part of present-day Nicaragua. Patrick Walker was appointed as consul-general to oversee British interests in the region, with his seat in Bluefields.

January 1895: Annexation of the Mosquito Reserve to Nicaragua.

September 1896: In 1896, El Salvador, under the leadership of President Rafael Zaldívar, formed a short-lived union with Honduras and Nicaragua called the Greater Republic of Central America. This union aimed to strengthen the region's political and economic power but ultimately dissolved due to internal conflicts and power struggles.

November 1898: Nicaragua became a sovereign nation.

January 1961: In 1960, the northern part of the Mosquito Coast was granted to Honduras by the International Court of Justice.