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Discovered during the failed expedition of Río de Solís.
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Juan de Salazar founded Asunción, the capital city.
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Spanish Jesuits converted the paraguayan people to Roman Catholicism.
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Paraguay became independent from the Spanish Rule in 1811, and their first dictator was Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia.
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children of slaves would be set free at 25
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The flag was adopted after the first ruler and dictator passed away.
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The Chaco war was a war between Paraguay and Bolivia over the Gran Chaco region, in which Paraguay succeeded.
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Paraguay joined the United Nations.
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Meshing of two political parties that turned into something bigger than it should have been.
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Foreign peasants who had been getting kicked out of their homelands for decades attempted to take over Paraguay, but failed in the process.
