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Coat of Arms of Trujillo, one of the oldest towns founded by the Spanish in Honduras. Honduras was first sighted by Europeans when Christopher Columbus arrived at the Bay Islands very close to the island of Guanaja on 30 July 1502 on his fourth voyage. On 14 August 1502 Columbus landed on the mainland near modern Trujillo. Columbus named the ...
Other gold deposits were found near San Pedro Sula and the port of Trujillo. [6] By the late 1540s, Honduras seemed headed for relative prosperity and influence, a development marked by the establishment in 1544 of the regional audiencia of Guatemala with its capital at Gracias, Honduras.
Honduras was found internationally liable for a series of enforced disappearances during this time period, culminating in Velásquez-Rodríguez v. Honduras. [48] In 1998, Hurricane Mitch caused massive and widespread destruction.
Nation-building is a long evolutionary process, and in most cases the date of a country's "formation" cannot be objectively determined; e.g., the fact that England and France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the fact that England is not now a sovereign state (having passed sovereignty to Great ...
Town of Intibuca, during the mid 19th century Honduras was still a vast agrarian state. At the end of the colonial period, Honduras' economy was based largely on mining, cattle raising and the export of tropical hardwoods. Unlike most of its neighbors, Honduras did not develop a significant coffee industry, and one of the results of this was that much of its export wealth ended up being generated
He founded Frontera de Cáceras upon the savannah of the Olancho valley, near the Indian towns of Telica and Escamilpa, [107] within the disputed territory between Honduras and Nicaragua. [ 105 ] Meanwhile, Pedrarias Dávila travelled to Nicaragua from Panama , executed Hernández de Córdoba , and took direct control of the province.
One of their oldest towns founded was the port of Trujillo, which has one of the oldest Spanish Fortress in America, the Santa Barbara Fortress. [3] [4] The first Spanish citizen in Honduras was the conquistador Gil González Dávila, who arrived in March 1524. He founded the villa of San Gil de Buena Vista.
British Honduras was a Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973, [3] until September 1981, when it gained full independence as Belize. British Honduras was the last continental possession of the United Kingdom in the Americas.