1525 Alvarado melts the town of El El Salvador de Cuscatlán. The territory forms part of the General Harbour office of Guatemala, dependent on the Vice Kingdom of Mexico City.

1821 The Central America is independent of Spain and organizes itself as Fédération.

1824 After a small war, El Salvador establishes its own Constitution and fact part of the Plain Provinces of the Central America which will be called later Federal Republic of the Central America.

The Fifties, 60 and 70 The economic problems worsen.

1969 The war against Honduras, bursts in June. The bloody conflict which lasts hundred hours breaks the regional Common Market and Salvadorian industry is in crisis.

1972 The electoral fraud which gives the victory to the preserving and military candidate is the release of a true wave of violence.

1980 The assassination of the archbishop Romero, defender of the humans right who denounced the abuses the owners, accelerates the civil war.

1989 Beginning of the negotiations of peace, when the government saw that it could not overcome by the force. Meanwhile, the leader of the party of right-hand side ARENA (formed in the Eighties to represent the interests of the owners), Alfredo Cristiani, is elected President.

1992 An agreement of cease-fire is signed with the guarantee of UNO and is controlled by a commission composed by the members of the two warring factions.

1994 The candidate of ARENA, Armando Calderon Ground, gains the elections and the party gains the majority with the French National Assembly.

1998 The conflict with Honduras, on the sovereignty of the three islands of the Gulf of Fonseca, is solved in January.

1999 Party ARENA, again gains the presidential elections in March with the candidate Francisco Floors Perez. But with the legislative elections twelve months later, the FLMN obtained the majority necessary to arrive at the government.