What year did Spanish colonies in Latin American become independent nations?

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1. maxiumus says:

   September 20, 2009 at 1:18 am

   i have no idea sorry but even though former Spanish colonies in Latin America are now independent nations those former Spanish colonies still retained the Spanish language but former French colonies in Latin American like French Guiana still ratained the French language and the former Portuguese colony Brazil still retained the Portuguese language
2. Warren S says:

   September 20, 2009 at 1:18 am

   1810 was the year that both Argentina and Mexico declared independence from Spain. Cuba did not get its independence until 1898 when the US ousted Spain from that country.
3. hamster_99 says:

   September 20, 2009 at 1:18 am

   hello

   Argentina – Buenos Aires founded in 1536, forcefully abandoned in 1541, re-founded in 1580, de facto independent in 1810, officially declared in 1816.

   Bolivia – La Paz founded in 1548. Independent in 1825.

   Chile – In 1541, the Spanish conquered the Incas in Perú, opening the way to the South, however, Spain could only advance as far as the Itata River, where they met the fierce Araucanians. Chile won its independence from Spain in 1818

   Colombia – In 1510, Spaniards founded Darien, the first permanent European settlement on the mainland of the Americas. In 1538, they established the New Kingdom of Granada. Independence declared in 1810. Later formed part of Gran Colombia.

   Ecuador – Conquistador Francisco Pizarro conquered the land in 1532. Suceded from Spain in 1821 to form Gran Colombia.

   Paraguay – Asunción was founded in 1537. Independent from 1811.

   Peru – Conquered from the Incas in 1531 by Francisco Pizarro. Peru won its independence from Spain in 1821.

   Uruguay – Taken by Spain from Portugal in 1778. Part of Brazil from 1821-1825. Independence in 1825.

   Venezuela – Caracas was founded in 1567. Declared independence in 1811. Later formed part of Gran Colombia.
4. chrysostomon says:

   September 20, 2009 at 1:18 am

   the Domincan Republic was part of Spain, but then ceded to France in 1795. When Haiti revolted from France (1803) it too became part of this nation. It gained independence from Haiti on February 27, 1844

   Jamaica too was once Spanish but was seized by Britain in 1655 and eventually gained independence from Britain on 6 August 1962

   Peru
   Independence from Spain
   – Declared July 28, 1821
   – Recognized December 9, 1824

   Chile
   Independence from Spain
   – First National
   Government Junta
   September 18, 1810
   – Declared February 12, 1818
   – Recognized April 25, 1844

   Uruguay
   -1811 declared independence from Spain
   invaded by Portugese troops and made part of Brazil, becoming Provincia Cisplatina
   - Declaration of independence FROM Brazil 25 August 1825
   - 1828 recognised independent by its neighbours

   Argentina
   -Declared 9 July 1816

   Mexico
   - Declared September 16, 1810
   - Recognized September 27, 1821

   Bolivia
   -Independence from Spain August 6, 1825

   Paraguay
   -Declared May 14, 1811

   Columbia
   - Declared July 20, 1810
   - Recognized August 7, 1819
   but it included what is now Panama, Venezuela and Ecuador as "Gran Colombia" which lasted until 1831

   Venezuela
   - from Gran Colombia January 13, 1830
   - Recognized March 30, 1845

   Ecuador
   -from Gran Colombia May 13, 1830

   Panama
   -from Colombia 3 November 1903

   Central America had a short lived nation (1823 – 1838) called the Federal Republic of Central America (Spanish -Provincias Unidas del Centro de América -PUCA) which consisted of what is now Guatemala El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.

   Nicaragua was the first to leave November 5, 1838

   Thus you have nations such as Honduras that have gained their independence several times;
   - from Spain September 15, 1821
   - from Mexico 1823
   - from the PUCA May 31, 1838

   Guatemala
   from Spain on 15 September 1821

   Costa Rica
   -from Spain (via Guatemala) September 15, 1821
   -from the UPCA 1838

   El Salvador
   -from Spain September 15, 1821
   -from the UPCA 1842

   Although Brazil is part of "Latin America" it didn’t gain independence from Spain so I do not include a ‘independence date’ here.
5. dmaud56 says:

   September 20, 2009 at 1:18 am

   From about 1815, to 1830, was the "era of independence" across Latin America. However don’t think for a second, it was of a like nature as the U.S. revolutionary war; one of the reasons Spanish rule was thrown off, was because the criollo (creole) landlords wanted all the wealth for themselves, they did not want to share with Spain. Latin American caste system 101, from top to bottom;

   1) Peninsular Spaniards, that is, any Spaniards born in Spain.
   2) Criollo, or "creole" Spaniards, any Spaniards born in Latin America, some of whom had some native american ancestry. Even if a latin american born spaniards was 100% though, simply being AROUND natives, made him or her less european to Spanish eyes of the time.
   3) Anyone of Italian ancestry (I’m serious). The truth is, Italians have always been highly regarded in Spain for reasons I do not understand. Even though during imperalist times Spaniards made it a point to let everyone know who was boss, in the end, there was always respect for Italy in fact, when southern Italy was "conquered" by Spain, it was quite a bloodless affair. Not only that, but Spain practically GAVE what is now Argentina to Italians. Many Argentinans have Spanish surnames but trust me, the great majority of them are of Italian origin.
   4) Any other person from Europe, or the North American colonies.
   5) A person of mostly spanish ancestry, likely the illegitimate son of a landlord, or grandson, whose mestizo father managed to score himself a spanish wife, usually a peon overseer.
   6) The peon; a person of mixed native american and spanish ancestry, although, mostly native american.
   7) The "indio," or as they called them "indians," the native americans, who were near the defacto bottom feeders next to…
   black people; yes, black people, there were black slaves in the Spanish colonies as well, not as many as in Brazil of course.
   9) Jews*

   Jews were considered an even lower form of life than black people; trust me on this, prejudice against them in Spain was so vicious, many sephardi Jews are still scathed to this day. Of course its complicated; the majority of Arab descended moorish inhabitants of southern Spain were either killed off, or expelled. The people who converted, were Jews. Meaning, the great majority of "dark" Spaniards, their semitic ancestry is Jewish, not Arab. Well, Jewish, carthaginian, and Greek, actually. Jewish converts to catholicism were called "marranos" (pigs) but the label usually fell off in a generation or two. Again its complicated; there is prejudice, but many Spaniards carry Jewish blood, at the same time though, any follower of the Jewish religion was considered a "low form of life" for a long time, even though they were hardly different genetically and appearance wise from most southern Spaniards.

   The truth is, regarding innocent Jews, the Spanish crown had no right to throw them out, for a very good reason; sephardi tradition holds, that the Jewish community in Spain had lived there since the time of King Solomon. Why, that gives them a full thousand years more of a birthright to Spain, than the Spanish crown, whose visigoth ancestors came from the Caucasus mountains near what is now Georgia. In other words, Sephardic Jews are more Spanish than many spaniards.

   Any spaniard wants to debate or argue this, I’ll oblige him (pops knuckles….)

   later.