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Spain Invasion
Napoleon invaded Spain and the king, Fernando VII was forced to renounce the throne and deliver it to Jose Bonaparte -
First cry of Independence
During the colonial period, Central America was mostly occupied by the Captaincy of Guatemala. This territory had its First Cry of Independence in the province of San Salvador, when the priests José Matías Delgado, Nicolás Aguilar and his brothers, planned and executed the capture of the casemate of San Salvador -
The Belen Conspiracy
It was a frustrated independence movement of a group of criollos against the authorities of the General Captaincy of Guatemala in 1813, in the city of Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción. Because of a betrayal, many insurgents were imprisoned, and they obtained their freedom until 1819. -
Sentence of the Captured
In September 1814, those captured on December 21, 1813 in the Convent of Belen, accused of plotting against the Government, were sentenced. Fifteen were condemned to the death penalty, among them were the Bedoya brothers, who said that they were simple gatherings "in which each one expressed with freedom his opinions on the government of the courts and, especially on the general captain". -
Freedom of those captured in the Belén Conspiracy
None were executed, and all were released in 1818, together with the prisoners of another pro-independence movement that took place in Granada, Nicaragua, in December 1811. -
They threaten the mayor with decapitate him
On the night of July 11, 1820, the mayor of Totonicapán and Huehuetenango left the town of San Miguel Totonicapán after the indigenes threatened to decapitate him, as they considered him a thief, for the tributes he demanded. -
Freedom of the press
Thanks to the Freedom of the Press consigned in the Constitution of Cádiz, it was possible to publish the Constitutional Editor, whose first issue was published on July 21, 1820. The newspaper was written by Pedro Molina, -
Change of name to the press
in August 1821, Molina changed the name to The Constitutional Editor, for The Genius of Liberty. -
Atanasio Tzul was released
Tzul, Aguilar and other ringleaders were captured, and faced trial in Quetzaltenango. In January they accepted a pardon granted by the King of Spain, and they were granted freedom on March 1, 1821 -
Independence Proclamation
On September 13 the people gathered in the streets of Guatemala asking for independence or death! The next day General Gabino Gainza requested that the documents be read to discuss if it was better to become independent or not. -
Independence and Chief position
The act of Independence signed on September 15, 1821, in the Royal Palace, after heated session, left in charge the same political chief Gavino Gainza -
Drafting of the Independence Act
On September 16, José Cecilio del Valle wrote the Act of Independence and oath to the officials
