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Nicaragua History
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Independence from Spain.
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Country invaded by the English
The English invaded central America. -
The United States and Great Britain sign the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty without Nicaraguan consent. They are granted access to an inter-oceanic trade route through Nicaraguan territory.
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Nicaraguan Liberal forces to crush the Conservative opposition hire William Walker. Walker captures Granada.
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Walker assumes the Nicaraguan presidency and seeks U.S. annexation. As president, his first decree is to sanction slavery in Nicaragua.
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: Nicaragua protests U.S. intervention and demands reparations for damages incurred in the 1855-armed conflict.
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The Liberal Party seizes power and names José Santos Zelaya president of Nicaragua. Lewis Hanke, an U.S. agent, intervenes in support of the Conservative cause.
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U.S. war ships take possession of the Fonseca Gulf.
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Two U.S. mercenaries are shot with authorization from the Nicaraguan Nationalist government
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U.S. troops impose a puppet government in Nicaragua. Liberal President, José Santos Zelaya is forced out of office and Adolfo Díaz is made provisional president.
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Nicaraguan president, Emiliano Chamorro signs the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty with the U.S. administration.
In exchange for $3 million, the U.S. acquires the right to build a canal across Nicaraguan territory, lease the Great and Little Corn Islands, and establish a naval base in the Gulf of Fonseca. The Bryan-Chamorro Treaty provokes anti-North American sentiment and guerrilla warfare in Nicaragua, and elicits protest from other Central American countries. -
Ruben Dario (b.1867), Nicaraguan poet, died. Dario, one of Nicaragua's best-known poets, is considered the father of the Modernismo movement.
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Nicaragua and Costa Rica sign a friendship treaty ending violence at the borders.
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President Dwight Eisenhower ordered U.S. naval units into the Caribbean after Guatemala and Nicaragua charged Castro with starting uprisings
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Cuban-American invasion army departed Nicaragua
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In Nicaragua General Raynoldo Perez Vega, the National Guard Chief, was assassinated.
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In Nicaragua the Sandinistas led an insurrection against Gen’l. Somoza.
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ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart was shot to death in Managua, Nicaragua, by a member of President Anastasio Somoza's national guard.
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A massive nighttime explosion rocked Managua, Nicaragua, and revealed not only a massive weapons cache but also the bunker of an int’l. kidnapping ring that relied on false papers and passports provided by the Sandinistas. Tomas Borge, one of the 9 comman
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In Nicaragua 6 soldiers were killed and one injured in an ambush in central Matagalpa province.
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In Nicaragua Arnoldo Aleman began a 5-year term as president.