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Saturday, July 24, 2021

Basic timeline of Costa Rica

This post is a basic timeline of Costa Rica. There are 13 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Clovis culture (13,000 - 11,000 years ago)
• Diquis culture (700 -1530 AD)
• Nicoya culture (Pre-Columbian era)
• Christopher Columbus and Spain arrive (1502)
• New Spain (1521-1821)
• First Mexican Empire (1821-1823)
• Federal Republic of Central America (1823-1841)
• League War (1835)
• Costa Rica gains independence (1838)
• Free State of Costa Rica (1838-1847)
• First Costa Rican Republic (1848-1948)
• Military coup d'état (1917)
• Costa Rican Civil War (1948)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Costa Rica at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Costa Rica.)