| 词条 | Timeline of Paraguayan history |
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Below is a timeline of the history of Paraguay: Early colonial period1516: Conquistador Juan Díaz de Solís leads an unsuccessful expedition to explore the area later known as Paraguay. 1524: Portuguese explorer Aleixo Garcia leads a Guaraní army of 200 across the Gran Chaco. 1526: Navigator Sebastian Cabot sails up the River Paraná and establishes a settlement known as Sancti Spiritu. 1530: Conquistador Don Pedro de Mendoza attempts to reach the area, but fails at the banks of the River Plate. His second in command Juan de Ayolas sails up the River Paraguay and discovers Cabot's abandoned settlement. Domingo Martínez de Irala, another sailor, joins him and is appointed lieutenant to take charge of the region. Ayolas ventures into the Chaco and disappears. 1537: Explorers Juan de Salazar de Espinosa and Gonzalo de Mendoza sail upstream to meet Irala, who guides them to a safe port. A fort is constructed on the riverbank on August 15 and named Asunción for the Catholic feast day. It becomes an outpost for goods being shipped across the continent and later the colony's capital. Settlers are given the right to elect leaders of the colony. 1541: The garrison of Buenos Aires abandons the town and resettles in Asunción. 1542: The province of Paraguay placed under authority of Viceroyalty of Peru. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca appointed governor. 1543-44: War over the location of the seat of government breaks out. Vaca moves towards Lima, is defeated by natives and returns to Spain. Irala is re-appointed governor. 1544 - 1555: Irala modernizes Paraguay by introducing agriculture and local industry. He repairs relations with the natives. 1556: Irala dies. Jesuit era1588: Jesuits start their work on establishing Jesuit reductions for native Guaranis in the Governorate of Paraguay. 1589 - 1639: Mameluco slave raids ravish Paraguay until natives are given the right to bear arms and defend themselves. 1640 - 1720: Colonists and Guaranis prosper under the Jesuits in Paraguay. 1721 - 1732: Revolt of the Comuneros against the Jesuits. Revolt is defeated. 1750: Jesuits lose the support of the Spanish Crown. 1750 - 1761: Guaraní War. Spanish–Portuguese forces sack the Jesuit reductions, killing around 1500 Guaranís. 1767: Suppression of the Society of Jesus, the last Jesuits are expelled from colonial Paraguay. Royalist period1776: Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata which includes the Province of Paraguay, is created. 1796 - 1806: Governor Lázaro de Ribera y Espinoza is in charge of Paraguay. Heavy taxes imposed by the Spanish provoke a popular revolt, which he suppresses by numerous executions. 1810: Royalism declines in South America as the king of Spain is deposed by Napoleon. May Revolution breaks out in the Viceroyalty. Governor of Paraguay Bernardo de Velasco remains loyal to the Crown and rejects revolution of Buenos Aires. Independence1810 - 1811: Buenos Aires starts Paraguay campaign. Argentine general Manuel Belgrano leads an army of 1100 troops to capture royalist Asunción, and defeats a small force of Paraguayans at the Battle of Campichuelo but is defeated in Battle of Paraguarí and Tacuarí. 1811, May 14 - Military and political uprising in Asuncion against governor Velasco. A three-man ruling junta, which includes Velasco, is created. This is the beginning of the independence of Paraguay. 1811, June 17 - National Congress meets for the first time. Velasco removed from all power and a five-man junta led by Fulgencio Yegros created. 1813 - National Congress creates the First Consulate with Fulgencio Yegros and Francia as consuls. 1813, October 12: Republic of Paraguay proclaimed. Francia era1814: Francia elected to the post of Supreme dictator. 1816: Francia elected to the post of Supreme dictator (El Supremo) for life. 1820 - 1821: Plot against Francia discovered. Independence leaders arrested. Caballero commits suicide in his cell and Yegros is executed. Spaniards of Asunción arrested and forced to pay 100 000 Pesos. 1824: Property of clergy confiscated. 1828: All private land confiscated. Education made compulsory. 1836: First public library opens. 1840: Francia dies. Manuel Antonio Ortiz leads the Provisional junta. Lopez dictatorships1841: Mariano Roque Alonzo assumes power, creates the Second Consulate with Carlos Antonio López. 1842, November 25: Official Act of Independence proclaimed. 1844: Carlos Antonio López elected President, establishes his dictatorship. 1862: Carlos Antonio Lopez dies and his eldest son Francisco Solano López is appointed President. 1864: Lopez declares war on Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Paraguayan War begins. 1865: Battle of the Riachuelo. Paraguayan navy destroyed. Remaining ships scuttled in the River Yhaguy. 1866: Battle of Tuyutí. Largest battle ever fought on South American soil. Allied advance halted by Paraguay at Curupayty. 1867: Fall of Humaitá. Allies begin march on Asunción. 1868: Paraguay defeated at the Battle of Avay. Paraguayan army begins to collapse. 1869, January 1: Allied armies occupy Asuncion, occupy Paraguay until 1876. 1869: Paraguayan army defeated at the Battle of Acosta Ñu. Lopez goes on the run with his wife Eliza Lynch and his children, as well as the remainder of his army, mostly children, elderly and women. 1870: Lopez finally defeated at Battle of Cerro Corá and killed soon after. Rebirth of Paraguay1870: Provisional government collapses, Cirilo Antonio Rivarola elected President. 1871: Salvador Jovellanos elected President. 1874: Juan Bautista Gill elected President. 1875: Riots break out in Caacupé, and soon spread all over the country. Rebellion quashed. 1877: President Gill is assassinated under orders from Juan Silvano Godoi. Higinio Uriarte elected President. 1878: Cándido Bareiro elected President. 1880: Adolfo Saguier, Bareiro's vice-president is appointed President. The first Colorado period1881: Bernardino Caballero elected President. 1886: Caballero rigs elections assuring the victory of Patricio Escobar wins. 1887: Liberal Party and Colorado Party established. 1887: Bernhard Förster and his wife Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (sister of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche) establish Nueva Germania settler community in the San Pedro Department. 1889: National University is founded. Electric power installed for the first time in the country. 1894: President Juan Gualberto González overthrown. 1898: Emilio Aceval elected President. 1900, January 1: Metric system introduced. 1901, November 23: the first official football match held in Asuncion. Liberal period1904: Escurra deposed in coup; exiled to Villa Hayes. Juan Bautista Gaona elected president: the first liberal to be given such position. 1905: Cecilio Báez elected. 1906: Benigno Ferreira elected. 1908: Ferreira dismissed and exiled in coup. Emiliano González Navero elected. Paraguayan cities re-developed. 1911: Manuel Gondra elected. 1912: Liberato Marcial Rojas elected. Navero re-installed. Army reformed. Eduardo Schaerer elected. 1915: Revolt against Schaerer caused by censorship issues fails. 1916: Manuel Franco elected. 1919: Franco dies in office. José Pedro Montero appointed. 1920: Gondra re-elected. 1921: Eusebio Ayala elected. 1922 - 23: a Civil war between conflicting factions erupts. 1924: Eligio Ayala elected, followed by Luis Alberto Riart, then again by Eligio Ayala. 1927: Arrival of Mennonites in Paraguay. 1928: José Patricio Guggiari elected. 1932: Eusebio Ayala re-elected. Bolivia declares war on Paraguay over control of the disputed Gran Chaco. Chaco War begins. Paraguayan army defeats Bolivia at the Battle of Boquerón, but are defeated later at the Battle of Kilometer 7. 1933: First Battle of Nanawa. Paraguayans win, but are driven back at Campo Jordán. Paraguay re-captures Nanawa 5 months later. Stalemate breaks out at the Battle of Gondra, but is broken that October by the Paraguayans at 2nd Campo Grande, and re-capture the Chaco after the fall of Campo Vía. Ceasefire declared. 1934: Truce lifted, Bolivia re-launches offensive at the Battle of Cañada Strongest, but Paraguayans counterattack at Ybybobo. 1935: Bolivian-occupied Villa Montes falls to Paraguayans. The last of the Bolivians are pushed out by a small Paraguayan force at Ingavi. Bolivia accepts truce on June 12, 1935. 1936, February 17: February Revolution brings Rafael Franco to power. 1937: Félix Paiva elected President. 1939: José Félix Estigarribia is elected. 1940, September 7: Estigarribia is killed in a plane crash, general Higinio Moríñigo assumes power. Morinigo era1941: Morinigo bans all other political parties and un-sympathetic newspapers. Serious considerations are made to assist Hitler, but is halted by Franklin D. Roosevelt 1945, February 8: Paraguay declares war on Germany, but does not see action. 1947: Morinigo manages to win Paraguayan Civil war with the help of Colorado militias. 1948: Morinigo is overthrown and Juan Manuel Frutos inherits position of presidency, followed that year by Juan Natalicio González. Democracy restored1949: Raimundo Rolón is appointed president, followed by Felipe Molas López. Federico Chávez is elected full-term. 1954: Tomás Romero Pereira is elected. Hands over power to Alfredo Stroessner. Stroessner regime1955: Stroessner declares state of siege and removes various civil rights from the people. 1959: Achne tribe enslaved and wiped out by order of Stroessner. 1965-66: Assists USA in the invasion of the Dominican Republic. 1972: University of Asunción is destroyed by police. The Archbishop of Paraguay, Ismael Rolón Silvero, excommunicates chief of police and minister of the interior. 1974: Human rights abuses in Paraguay come to notice internationally, and Stroessner is accused of Slavery, Genocide [of tribes], corruption, torture and kidnapping, as well as supposedly protecting ex-Nazis living in Paraguay. 1988: Pope John Paul II visits Paraguay, increasing anti-Stroessner morale. 1989: General Andrés Rodríguez starts an uprising against Stroessner, and succeeds after an artillery duel over Asunción, after which Stroessner flees to Brazil. Rodriguez appointed president after 35 years of oppression. Modern period1992: Rodriguez initiated reforms including the abolition of the death penalty. He releases many political prisoners and slaves. He prosecutes and imprisons the main perpetrators of Stroessner's regime. 1993: Juan Carlos Wasmosy is elected president. He frees several of Stroessner's associates from prison and reappoints them to their former government positions. 1996: Field marshal Lino Oviedo mounts a failed coup against Wasmosy. He is imprisoned, much to the distress of the Paraguayan public. 1998: Raúl Cubas Grau elected under promise that Oviedo would be released, but does not perpetrate action. After his vice president Luis María Argaña is murdered with Cubas himself implicated, mass protests erupt in Asunción, with seven people killed by riot police. 1999: Cubas resigns. Oviedo flees to Argentina. Luis Ángel González Macchi elected president. 2003: Nicanor Duarte is elected president. 2004: Fire breaks out in the Ycuá Bolaños supermarket. 400 people killed and 500 injured. 2008: Fernando Lugo is elected president. After a 66-year era of conservative rule, the Colorado Party has been ousted from power. 3 : History of Paraguay|Timelines by country|Paraguay-related lists |
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