History timeline

Guatemala

10 periods and events, 200 – 1996.

Periods and events

When	Period or event	Kind	Source
200 – 900	Tikal (Classic Maya city)蒂卡尔（古典期玛雅城邦） One of the most powerful Maya city-states, rival of Calakmul.	Dynasty or era	Source
1524 – 1697	Spanish conquest西班牙征服 From Pedro de Alvarado's invasion to the fall of the last Itza kingdom, Nojpetén.	Colonial	Source
1871 – 1885	Liberal Reform (Justo Rufino Barrios)自由主义改革（胡斯托·鲁菲诺·巴里奥斯） Church lands seized and coffee plantations expanded, often on indigenous land.	Politics	Source
1898 – 1920	Estrada Cabrera dictatorship埃斯特拉达·卡夫雷拉独裁	Politics	Source
1931 – 1944	Ubico dictatorship乌维科独裁	Politics	Source
1944 – 1954	Ten Years of Spring十年之春 Democratic governments of Arévalo and Árbenz; land reform challenges United Fruit.	Movement	Source
1954	CIA-backed coup ousts Árbenz中情局支持的政变推翻阿本斯	Politics	Source
1960 – 1996	Guatemalan Civil War危地马拉内战 36-year conflict; some 200,000 killed, mostly Maya civilians, including genocide in the 1980s.	War	Source
1967	Miguel Ángel Asturias wins Nobel Prize米格尔·安赫尔·阿斯图里亚斯获诺贝尔文学奖 Author of El Señor Presidente.	Literature	Source
1992	Rigoberta Menchú wins Nobel Peace Prize里戈韦塔·门楚获诺贝尔和平奖 K'iche' Maya activist for indigenous rights.	Movement	Source