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Paraguay


2004 Paraguay supermarket fire kills at least 300

1993 Paraguay holds its 1st President and parliamentary elections in 50 years

1991 Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election

1989 Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay

1988 Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay

1987 U.S. Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay

1980 Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan President, assassinated in Paraguay

1974 Rosanna Gimenez, Miss Paraguay Universe, 1997

1967 Paraguay accepts its constitution

1959 President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament

1958 Angel Franco, Asuncion Paraguay, golfer, 1993 Nike Dominion

1955 Victor Pecci, Paraguay, tennis star

1954 Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay

1954 Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay

1945 Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador joins UN

1935 Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends

1935 Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco, Bolivia vs Paraguay

1933 Bolivia and Paraguay sign weapon cease fire

1933 Paraguay declares war on Bolivia

1930 Boqueron battle ends Paraguay border dispute

1912 Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay, 1954-89

1882 Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer, poet and historian, Paraguay

1870 Francisco Solano Lopez, Field Marshal/president of Paraguay

1870 Francisco S Lopez, President of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43

1862 Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71

1839 Jose Gaspar de Francia, dictator of Paraguay, 1816 - 1839, dies at 74

1826 Francisco S Lopez, Tiran, president of Paraguay, 1862-70

1811 Paraguay gains independence from Spain (National Day)

1790 Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay, 1844-62

1617 Spanish viceroy Hernando Arias de Saavedra founds provinces Rio de la Plata (Argentina)/Guaira (Paraguay)

1535 Asuncion, Paraguay founded


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