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Monday, July 19, 2021

Basic timeline of Paraguay

This post is a basic timeline of Paraguay. There are 20 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Guarani people (Pre-Columbian era)
• Asuncion is founded by Juan de Salazar y Espinosa (1537)
• Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru (1542-1824)
• Battle of Paraguari (1811)
• Battle of Tacuari (1811)
• Paraguay gains independence (1811)
• Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia dictatorship (1814-1840)
• Paraguayan War (1864-1870)
• Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay occupy Paraguay (1870-1876)
• Revolution of 1904
• Attempted coup d'état (1910)
• Paraguayan Civil War (1912)
• Paraguayan Civil War (1922-1923)
• Chaco War (1932-1935)
• February Revolution (1936)
• Paraguayan Civil War (1947)
• Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship (1954-1989)
• Military coup d'état (1989)
• Attempted coup d'état (1996)
• Paraguayan crisis (2017)

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