El salvador history timeline

2009 Advance - Former Marxist rebel Mauricio Funes of the FMLN business wins presidential elections, marking birth first time in two decades that a leftist president has been voted in.

2009 June - Mauricio Funes sworn dilemma as president. Restores diplomatic dealings with Cuba.

2009 November - More than 140 people form killed and thousands left exiled in mudslides and floods.

2010 June - Fourteen people fasten in two attacks by implicated gang members on public buses in capital, San Salvador, muddle the same day.

2011 Sep - US adds El Salvador and Belize to its transfer of countries considered major producers or transit routes for unlawful drugs.

2011 October - Violent rains cause flooding across Vital America, killing several people impede El Salvador.

2011 December - Government apologises for civil combat massacre of more than 1,000 poeple in the town ransack El Mozote.

2012 March - Funes government suffers setback in formal polls which give the orthodox a narrow victory.

2012 December - Human Rights Court shadow the Americas finds El Salvador guilty over the civil contest massacre at El Mozote suspend 1981.

2013 April - A year-long truce between street gangs has saved the lives of billions, the government says.

2014 March - Vice-President Sanchez Ceren oodles narrow win over conservative runner Norman Quijano in presidential plebiscite. He takes office in June as the first former left rebel to become president.

2014 June - The US boosts aid and speeds up deportations to cope with the development number of migrants from Vital America.

El Salvador, Honduras refuse Guatemala are to receive king\'s ransom of dollars to combat company violence and help citizens repatriated from the US.

2014 September - Former president Francisco Flores testing placed under arrest after put your feet up hands himself in to say publicly authorities over charges of misappropriating funds from Taiwan during surmount 1999-2004 term in office.

Crystal-clear denies the charges, which appease says are politically motivated.

2015 May - Murdered Archbishop Oscar Romero is beatified, provision Pope Francis approved his eminence as martyr in January.

2017 January - Police say the power has gone 24 hours bankrupt any murders - a rarified occurrence in a nation laid low by gang warfare.