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The 15 September council meeting at which independence was finally declared was chaired by Gabino Gaínza, [6] and the text of the Act itself was written by Honduran intellectual and politician José Cecilio del Valle [7] and signed by representatives of the various Central American provinces, including José Matías Delgado, José Lorenzo de ...
Upon gaining independence from Spain in September 1821, the Central American government owed 3,138,451 pesos (equivalent to $79,821,270 in 2023) of foreign debt; by October 1823, after the end of the period of Mexican rule, the debt increased to 3,583,576 pesos (equivalent to $91,142,283 in 2023). [ 137]
September 15 was chosen as the starting point for the commemoration because it is the anniversary of the Cry of Dolores (early morning, 16 September 1810), which marked the start of the Mexican War of Independence and thus resulted (in 1821) in independence for the New Spain Colony (now Mexico and the Central American nations of Guatemala, El ...
In 1821 a congress of Central American Criollos in Guatemala City composed the Act of Independence of Central America to declare the region's independence from Spain, effective on 15 September of that year. [3] That date is still marked as independence day by most Central American nations.
In 1821, El Salvador achieved independence from Spain as part of the First Mexican Empire, only to further secede as part of the Federal Republic of Central America two years later. Upon the republic's independence in 1841, El Salvador became a sovereign state until forming a short-lived union with Honduras and Nicaragua called the Greater ...
Act of Independence of Central America. [citation needed] Guinea: Independence Day: 2 October: 1958 France Guinea-Bissau: Independence Day: 24 September: 1973 Portugal Guyana: Independence Day: 26 May: 1966 United Kingdom Haiti: Independence Day: 1 January: 1804 France Spain: Haitian Declaration of Independence. Honduras: Independence Day: 15 ...
September 15 is the 258th day of the year ... Independence Day, celebrates the Act of Independence of Central America from Spain in 1821 of Guatemala ...
Founding Father John Adams, center, enjoyed the profound pleasure of declaring independence from Great Britain in 1776, negotiating the Treaty of Paris, which secured American independence in 1783 ...