Nicacargua's Culture

By vholland
  • Jan 1, 1524

    An expedition is send to colonize

    The person that was send to colonize was Fransico Hernandez de Cordabo
  • Period: Jan 1, 1524 to

    NIcaragua

  • The Pacific Coast of Nicarargua was settled as a Spanish Colony

    It was settled as a Spanish Colony from Panama

  • Nicaragua got its independence

    NIcaragua got its independence from Spain

  • Nicarargua is a independent republic

  • The Nicaragua -Honduras war

    During the war nicaraguans forces occopy the Honduras capital, Tegucigapla.

  • Nicaraguan exiles found the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion National

  • Violent opposition to governmental manipulation, and corruption spread to all classes

  • The result in a short-lived Civil War that brought the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power

  • The United States supports the “ Contra” war.

    The United States fought against the Sandinistas from bases in Honduras and Costa Rica.

  • Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador.

    Aid caused the U.S. to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas.

  • Settlements are negotiated in most of the ongoing Civil Wars in Central America