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Dateline
2000 B.C.-A.D. 1000 Maya civilization flourishes.
A.D. 200-900 Maya Classical period; Tikal at its peak.
562 Caracol defeats Tikal.
1502 Columbus sails along the coast of Guatemala.
1511 The Spanish conquest of the Yucatan begins.
1776 The capital is moved to Guatemala City after a massive earthquakes rock Antigua.
1821 Guatemala gains independence from Spain, becoming part of Mexico.
1823 Guatemala becomes independent from Mexico.
1859 The border between Guatemala and British Honduras (now Belize) is established.
1871 Justo Rufino Barrios overthrows government, begins period of modernizing reform.
1948 Guatemala, laying claim to British Honduras, closes the border.
1954 Democratically elected President Jacobo Arbenz overthrown in CIA-sponsored coup.
1967 Poet, novelist, and ambassador Miguel Angel Asturias wins Nobel Prize for Literature.
1982 General Efrain Rios Montt seizes power in a coup.
1983 Rigoberta Menchu publishes I, Rigoberta.
1987 Central American presidents sign peace accords in Esquipulas.
1992 Menchu awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
1996 Guatemalan government and leftist rebels sign Accords for Firm and Lasting Peace.
1999 President Clinton apologizes for U.S. role in the Guatemalan conflict.
2002 Ex-Patrulleros de la Autodefensa Civil blockade Peten region.
2005 Torrential rains kill more than 1,000 people. Damage is worst around Lake Atitlan.
2006 Guatemala up against Venezuela for UN Security Council seat.
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