COSTA RICA INDEPENDENCE

PLACES

100

SEPT 15, 1821 THE KINGDOM OF GUATEMALA DECLARED ITS INDEPENDENCE FROM...

SPAIN

200

THERE WAS STRUGGLE BETWEEN HEREDIA AND CARTAGO, WISH FAVORED JOINING THE...

MEXICAN EMPIRE

300

PROVINCE OF GUANACASTE SECEDE FROM NICARAGUA AND BECOME PART OF 

COSTA RICA 

YEARS

100

THIS RESULTED IN A PERIOD OF CONFLICT AND UNREST OVER THE NEXT

20 YEARS

200

OF THE COUNTRY AND JOINED THE REPUBLIC OF CENTRAL AMERICA, UNTIL THE FEDERATION´S COLLLAPSE 

IN 1840

.....

100

AFTER A BATTLE IN CARTAGO, SAN JOSE WAS DECLARED THE 

NEW CAPITAL 

200

RELIGIUOS INSTITUTIONS HAD NEVER BEEN PARICULARLY STRONG OR INFLUCNTIAL 

IN COSTA RICA, AND THE LARGELY RURAL, AGRARIAN ECONOMY 

300

THE MONROE DOCTRINE FORMALLY MOVE DECLARE US INTENSION 

TO BE THE DOMINANT POWER IN THE WESTERN AHEMISPHER

400

COSTA RICA JOINS THE 

UNITED PROVINCE OF CEENTRAL AMERICA