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According to the legend, the first inhabitants of Nicaragua are originating in Mexico. They emigrated towards the south to find broad stretch of water with two mountains in its center. On banks of the lake Nicaragua, they transfer the island of Ometepe and its two volcanos.
They were established there. Their population thrives and grows, it extends and separates in several groups. Miskito and Sumu which lived in the North-East are of Colombian origin. Lencas which lives on the East coast and that one finds in Honduras and El Salvador. Chorotegas come from Mexico, without forgetting Chontales in which one sees the descendants of Mayas.

1502 Christophe Colomb goes along the Caraïbe coast of current Nicaragua.

1522 Gil Gonzales de Avila, party of Islas Perlas in Panama explores and traces a chart of the area of Nicaragua and current Costa Rica. It meets the chief Nicarao and converts it with Christianity.

1523 Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba melts the towns of Granada and Leon.

1821 Nicaragua is independent of the crown of Spain but remains province of Guatemala.

1838 Nicaragua becomes sovereign nation, with Leon like sits of the liberals and Granada for the conservatives.

1855 The American condottiere William Walker called by the liberals, enters to Nicaragua while hoping to take the control of Mexico, the Central America and even of Cuba. Autoproclamé chair of Nicaragua one year later, it loses the control of the country in 1858 during the "national War of release" and whose determining feat of arms was the battle of San Jacinto. It is killed in 1860 year Honduras.

1902 Lhas decision is taken to build a Atlantique/Pacifique channel in Panama and not in Nicaragua.

1912 The liberals are with the capacity, under the impulse of the nationalist Santos Zelaya who refuses the American requirements. The United States installs a garrison of Marines under cover of an operation of maintenance of law and order.

1916 According to the Bryan-Chamorro treaty the United States would pay a royalty of 3 million dollars for an inalienable concession on the future Atlantique/Pacifique channel. This concession also legitimates the setting in garrison of American troops in Nicaragua and reaffirms the American seizure on the area.

1925 The American troops leave the country to return the following year there.

1927 Henry Stimson, elected by president Coolidge, regulates the crisis which has occurred between liberals and preserving pro-American. Only member of the government not to be supported the proposals of Stimson, the General Augusto César Sandino and 3.000 men oppose a popular resistance to the interventionism of the United States.

1931 An earthquake destroys Managua partially on March 31.

1933 The American troops, not managing to liquidate the guerrilla of Sandino, are withdrawn. The government agrees to negotiate with the Sandino General, granting some concessions to him n the other hand nomination of Anastasio Somoza Garcia to the head of the national guard required by the United States.

1934 The Sandino General is assassinated by the national guard.

1937 The Somoza General seizes the power and settles with the presidency on January 1. He founds a true dynasty which will be maintained with the capacity more than forty years.

1956 Anastasio Somoza Garcia is assassinated, his/her elder son Luis, ordering national guard takes over temporarily the duties until 1957, fine official of the mandate of his/her father, while his/her Anastasio brother replaces it with the head of the national guard.

1957 Luis Somoza is re-elected president.

1961 Foundation of the Face Sandinista of Release by Carlos Fonseca, Divided into volumes Borge and Silvio Mayorga.

1963 Rene Schick Guttiérrez enthusiastic in favour of the Somoza mode is elected president. He dies in 1966 and is replaced by Luis Somoza.

1967 Died of Shine Somoza and new vacancy of the capacity, it is his/her Anastasio brother who is elected to succeed to him.

1972 December 22, an earthquake destroys Managua. The martial law is issued.

1977 Raised law martiale.Un group of opposition to the mode is constituted, it gathers 12 intellectual and political personalities (Los doce).

1978 Assassination of Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, director of the newspaper Prensa and appears of the opposition. A nation-wide strike follows. The FSLN seizes the national assembly.

1979 July 17 Somoza leaves the country. 19, the troops of the FSLN enter Managua and set up a revolutionary government chapeauté by Junta de Gobierno of Reconstuccion National. The JGRN consists of three Sandinistas and two members of the civil company.

1980 The government Sandinista launches a program in favour of the elimination of illiteracy of the population. The two members of the civil company of the JGRN, Violeta Chamorro (widow of Pedro Joaquin Chamorro) and Alfonso Robelo, resign. The United States grants a help of 75 million dollars to Nicaragua.

1981 Issuing that the government Sandinista makes weigh on the Central America a communist threat, the Reagan administration announces its will to make fall the government Sandinista and suspends any bilateral help.

1982 Nearly 2500 former members of the national guard helped by the United States form a movement applé "contrarevolucionarios" or "Countered" and penetrate in Nicaragua by Honduras.

1984 The Sandinista Daniel Ortega gains the elections with 67% of the votes and is elected president.

1985 The United States starts a commercial embargo against Nicaragua.

1986 Under pretexte that the newspaper Prensa is controlled by American capital, the government decides to prohibit the publication of it. The censure is maintained a whole year. The scandal of "Irangate" bursts in November at the time of discovered of the secret sale of weapons in Iran which was partly used to finance "Countered them".

1987 A new constitution is installation in January. It founds the representation proportional for the presidential election and fixes the mandate of Head of the State at six years.

1988 The government Sandinista and "Countered them" start negotiations.

1990 The union Nacional Opositora (UNO), coalition of the 14 parties of the opposition led by Violeta Chamorro, inflicts a defeat at the polls with the FSLN on February 25. A protocol of transition is signed, informant whom the constitution will be respected and whom the disarmament of "Countered" will follow its course. The General Sandinista Humberto Ortega is maintained with the head of the army.

1992 The majority of "Countered" are disarmed.

1994 The coalition of the UNO and the FSLN deals with internal dissensions limiting their sphere of activities.

1995 New constitution which brings back the presidential mandate to five years and the direct vote for all for the election of the Head of the State.

1997 Election of Doctor Arnoldo Aleman like chair Republic of Nicaragua.

1998 The Mitch hurricane devastates the country.

1999 Nicaragua and its neighbors Guatemala, Honduras, El El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama and Belize start a series of meetings to start again the system of Centraméricain integration the purpose of which is to make of the Central America an economic and political area.