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History of Honduras in maps
Honduras as it appears in 7 interactive history atlases, from 1750 to 2015: Honduras. 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 Honduras before it was Honduras? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History atlases — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Honduras · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Agrarian economy |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Honduras · Age of Revolutions
| Colonial possessions — the opening position | |
| Republics & revolutionary states |
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Honduras · Haiti and Kenya independence
| Under colonial rule — the opening position | |
| Other states and societies |
HAITI AND KENYA INDEPENDENCE: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Honduras · American Civil War
Honduras closes the filibuster story: William Walker, the “grey-eyed man of destiny” who had made himself president of Nicaragua to extend slavery southward, was captured here and shot by Honduran authorities at Trujillo in September 1860 — six weeks before Lincoln’s election. The expansionist slave empire of Southern imagination died on this coast before the war for the existing one began.
| Neighbors & the outside world — the opening position |
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Honduras · WWI
| The Entente & Allies — the opening position | |
| The Entente & Allies |
Honduras · Cold War
| US-aligned states — the opening position |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Honduras · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Refused: women excluded; ERA never ratified — the opening position | |
| 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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