1500 BC- 800 AD 1123 1487 1508

Mayan civilization Yucatec Maya Aztecs sent spies 1st Spanish excursions
dominated Belize overthrew the to Belize for trade happened
Itza-Maya and political
information Maya resisted
Spanish attempts to
control them
 1547 – Spanish
Pacheco cousins
received a Spanish
Grant to Belize wherein
they killed, burned, and
tutured through the
villages.

1511 1542 1546 1562

Geronimo de Aguilar, The official A massive The infamous Catholic Bishop
first Spaniard to Spanish rebellion and Landa initiated the destruction
arrive and settle at declaration of uprising threw of Maya culture and hegemony
Chetumal Bay invasion and out the Spanish for the enslavement and
conquest occurs from Belize conquest of Maya
1544 – Spanish took 1567 –Spanish from Yucatan organized
over northern Belize a conquest to destroy anything Mayan
(Dzuluinicob) culture
 1615 – Spaniards 1615 - People left the
reduced Tipu once again town of Belize to find
to remove Maya Politics food

1568 1608 1627 - 1630 1636

Juan de Garzon’s Tipu, the capital of Famine, plagues A major war occurred
forces destroy Mayan Belize and center of of locusts between the Mayans and
communities in Belize Maya political power devastated crops Spanish – to re-enslave the
reaching the far south is reduced by the and the country Belize residents
of Lake Isobel Spanish to Merida
Tens of thousand
1637 – Population of
1569 – The Dutch arrive Mayans starved to
Belize comes near to
and raided the coast extinction
death
 1677 – Spaniards’ failed
attempt to reconquer the
south

1638 1642 1650 1678 - 1680

Mayan political The war for Belize Estimated Catholic Franciscans
leaders at Tipu start a was won and beginning of returned with a large
new independence independence is British Settlement military force invading
movement achieved northern and western Belize
Among the famous resistance
leaders, Gaspar Puc, Don Luis Kinil, 1660 – British buccaneers 1695 – The Mayans became
and Andres Uxul who were put to settled near the coast weak and disorganized
death by torture in Merida, Spain
 1696 1707 1708 1763
Tipu population The Spanish forced Civil War between the Spain signs treaties
continued reduction the Tipu Maya to Tipu town area Yucatec which granted
by military force help in the fight Maya influenced by British Logwood
against the Itza- Spanish and the Cutters to work in
1698 – The Spanish Maya, and then sold Mozul-Maya of central Belize
give up and vanish them into slavery southern Belize
from Belize
*Mozul-Maya are *Treaty of Paris of 1763;
Muslims Only British logging rights
 1817 –British
superintendent
granted land titles

1779 1809 1821 1839

The Spanish attack Maya of Belize Central American Federation of Central
British settlers for the attacked British region declares its America was dissolved
fourth time since 1717. logging camps independence from
Spain *wherein Guatemala claimed they
1798 –Spain lost to 1816 –Spain protests inherited sovereign rights from
erection of fortification Spain to Belize
force out British
settlers in Belize in the in Belize
Battle of St. George’s 1820 – Fourth recorded * In 1824, there’s an estimated 2,300 slaves in Belize,
Caye slave revolt since 1765 including Africans, creoles, and descendants of Indians
 1840 1850 1855 1862
Laws of England US – British treaty, Clayton- A regularized Officially declared a
declared in Belize Bulwer Treaty; where legal system colony and recognized as
Britain agrees to refrain part of the British
from occupying, fortifying, Commonwealth; was
or colonizing any part of named British Honduras
Central America
1859 –British and Guatemala sign a treaty
* In 1854, adopted a formal constitution which which defined Belize’s boundaries and
provided a Legislative Assembly. agreed to build a road to the Caribbean coast
 Constitutional reforms give
Belize limited autonomy;
general elections won by
People’s United Party (PUP),
led by George Price
1954

1863 1871 1930s

Signed a treaty with Status changed to Belize City largely
Guatemala which Crown Colony under destroyed by
defined road-building the governor in hurricane. Economy
responsibilities Jamaica. Elected five hit by Great
official and four non- Depression
official members of
the Legislative
Council
 New constitution
gives Belize full The country
autonomy, two- changes its name
chamber parliament from British
Honduras to Belize
1964 1973
1961
Hurricane 1970
Belmopan
Hattie kills replaces Belize
more than City as capital
260 people
 Manuel Esquivel
becomes prime
minister again
after his UDP
defeats PUP
general elections
1993

1981 1984 1992 1998

Becomes Guatemala Said Musa
Manuel Esquivel
independent with recognises Belize becomes
becomes prime
George Price as as a sovereign and prime
minister
prime minister, independent state minister after
Guatemala PUP wins a
refuses to landslide
recognise election
victory.
 Towns flattend, Said Musa is
Rioting breaks
thousands left elected for a
out in the capital
homeless after second term
during a wave of
Hurricane Iris as prime
anti-government
hits. minister.
protests.
October 2001 March 2003 April 2005

October 2000 September 2002 January 2004

Hurricane Keith Guatemala agree Britain’s Privy
causes widespread on a draft to their Council dismisses an
devastation long-standing appeal to overturn
border dispute at the Belize
talks brokered by government’s
the (OAS) approval of the
proposed Chalillo
dam.
 Added to US
blacklist of
OAS countries
recommends considered to be
border major producers of
dispute with transit routes for
Guatemala illegal drugs
November 2007 September 2011

April 2006 February 2008 May 2010 March 2012

Belize begins Dean Barrow Government Elections. Ruling
commercial becomes prime says it will UDP wins
exploitation minister after stop sending another term.
of its oil UDP wins appeals cases
reserves landslide election to British
victory. Privy Council
starting June
1.
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