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independence of the thirteen Colonies
In 1775 the war for independence led by George Washington was launched a year after independence was declared -
French Revolution
it was an absolute monarchy in which the nobility and the high clergy lived with great privileges maintained by a hungry people -
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Allowed an alliance between monarchs and the bourgeoisie strengthening the authority of the king. It started in France -
Tax increase
After almost three centuries of colonial rule in Guatemala (1524-1821) the Republican era began. Financing this new political regime required the availability of income from treasuries. -
Signature of the act of independence
The separation of the Spanish Monarchy was proclaimed on September 15, 1821.
The meeting of the Diputación was chaired by the Chief Political Officer Gabino Gaínza and the minutes were written by the famous Honduran intellectual and politician José Cecilio del Valle to the indigenous scribes Lorenzo Romaña and Domingo Dieguez according to the version of Dr. Orlando Betancourth. The session was to carry out at the National Palace -
Letter sent to the annex to Mexico
The Emperor Agustín de Iturbide through his chancellor José Manuel de Herrera sent a letter to the captain general of the Provisional Advisory Board of Central America, Gabino Gaínza and Fernández de Medrano, whose board of directors presided over the delegates representing the provinces of Chiapas, San Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica with the proposal to join the Mexican Empire in accordance with the Three Guarantees of the Córdoba Treaties -
Annex to Mexico
By majority vote of the municipalities of the five provinces, with San Salvador as the main opposition to this decision and Costa Rica without reaching a definitive agreement. In fact, the then province of Costa Rica does not ratify its annex to the Mexican Empire as a consequence of the first Costa Rican civil war. That said, not all the provinces of Central America join the Mexican Empire. -
Disannex to Mexico
When Agustín de Iturbide abdicated to the Mexican crown, there was separation from the provinces, with the exception of Chiapas, which joined the Mexican republic as a federated state. -
Absolute independence
The Congress meeting in Guatemala City proclaimed the absolute independence of Central America and was declared a General Constituent Assembly, as well as the "United Provinces of the Center of America" were formed as a sovereign, free and independent nation. -
Republican Federation
The Federal Republic of Central America was a federation that emerged from the Constituent Assembly of the United Provinces of Central America, through the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Central America. Its capital was Guatemala City until 1834. Then it was for a brief period, and finally San Salvador, from 1834 to 1839, however, only the executive branch was the one that moved, while the legislative and judicial powers kept their seat in the Guatemala city.
