7 ATLASES
History of Guatemala in maps
Guatemala as it appears in 7 interactive history atlases, from 1750 to 2015: Guatemala, Captaincy of Guatemala. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Guatemala before it was Guatemala? The sections below follow this land through every era covered by the Maps of History atlases: who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed. Each line links to the dated map. Modern borders serve as an approximation, as each atlas says on the map itself.
Guatemala · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Agrarian economy |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Captaincy of Guatemala (mod. Guatemala) · Age of Revolutions
| Colonial possessions — the opening position | |
| Republics & revolutionary states |
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Guatemala · Haiti and Kenya independence
| Under colonial rule — the opening position | |
| Other states and societies |
HAITI AND KENYA INDEPENDENCE: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Guatemala · American Civil War
During the 1850s, Guatemala and the other Central American republics fought William Walker’s filibuster expeditions. Walker sought to establish new slave states in the tropics, an expansion the Confederacy dreamed of; he ruled Nicaragua in 1856–57 and reinstated slavery there. The Civil War ended the filibuster era. Men who might have sailed south instead died at Shiloh and Franklin, and Central America was left in peace by its northern neighbor for a generation.
| Neighbors & the outside world — the opening position |
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Guatemala · WWI
| The Entente & Allies — the opening position | |
| The Entente & Allies |
Guatemala · Cold War
| US-aligned states — the opening position |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Guatemala · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Refused: women excluded; ERA never ratified — the opening position | |
| Partial or unequal; treaty signed only; transition | |
| Right won in law | |
| No reform yet / outside this story | |
| Right won in law |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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