1944 in El Salvador

Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;
See also:	Other events of 1944; Timeline of Salvadoran history;

The following lists events that happened in 1944 in El Salvador.

Incumbents[]

January 3 - Voters in El Salvador voted Maximiliano Hernández Martínez as President of El Salvador for a third term in a 100% margin but to results were published.^[1] He was the only candidate. The 1944 Salvadoran Constitutional Assembly election also but no results were posted either.^[2]

April 2 - Rouge military units rebelled against President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez.^[3]
April 4 - The rebellion was suppressed and more than 100 civilians were shot dead in street demonstrations by the army.^[4]

May 7 - The Strike of Fallen Arms began against Hernández Martínez's government.^[5]
May 9 - Maximiliano Hernández Martínez resigned and fled to Guatemala. Andrés Ignacio Menéndez became Provisional President.
May 11 - The Strike of Fallen Arms ends.

October 21 - Osmín Aguirre y Salinas deposed Andrés Ignacio Menéndez in a coup and became Provisional President.

^ Krehm, William. Democracia y tiranias en el Caribe. Buenos Aires: Editorial Parnaso. 1957. pp. 37.
^ Williams, Philip J. and Knut Walter (1997) Militarization and demilitarization in El Salvador's transition to democracy Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, p27
^ Zunes, Stephen. "Movements and Campaigns - Issues - Dictatorships - El Salvador: 1944". Archived from the original on 31 December 2010. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
^ Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory, by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes, Erik Kristofer Ching, Rafael Lara Martínez, UNM Press, 2007, page 84
^ A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-violent Conflict, by Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall, St. Martin's Press, 2015, pages 256-263

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