BelizeandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
4 SHARED EVENTSGuatemala

Entangled histories

4 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · BLZ LEFT · GTM RIGHT

1. 1859

   The Anglo-Guatemalan boundary treaty

   Britain and Guatemala signed a treaty fixing the settlement's limits from the Río Hondo to the Sarstoon; the unfulfilled Article 7, promising a means of communication never built, became the root of Guatemala's later claim.

   Politics & Power · from the Belize chronicle · British Honduras and a plural society · REFS 3 — The Belize–Guatemala Territorial Differendum (Peace Fund), Guatemala's Territorial, Insular and Maritime Claim (Guatemala/Belize), Case No. 177, Our History

2. 21 September 1981

   Independence as Belize

   Belize became an independent state within the Commonwealth on 21 September 1981 with George Price as first prime minister — the last British colony on the Central American mainland to win independence, its frontier still claimed by Guatemala.

   Independence · from the Belize chronicle · Price, the PUP and independence · REFS 3 — A Guide to the History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations, by Country: Belize, History of Belize, Our History

3. 8 December 2008

   Special Agreement on the dispute

   Belize and Guatemala signed a Special Agreement committing to submit Guatemala's territorial, insular and maritime claim to the International Court of Justice, subject to approval by referendum in each country.

   Politics & Power · from the Belize chronicle · Independent Belize and the Guatemalan question · REFS 2 — The Belize–Guatemala Territorial Differendum (Peace Fund), Guatemala's Territorial, Insular and Maritime Claim (Guatemala/Belize), Case No. 177

4. 2020 onward

   Pleadings before the World Court

   Guatemala and Belize filed written pleadings before the International Court of Justice in the case "Guatemala's Territorial, Insular and Maritime Claim (Guatemala/Belize)", moving toward a final, binding judgment on the century-old dispute.

   Politics & Power · from the Belize chronicle · Independent Belize and the Guatemalan question · REFS 1 — Guatemala's Territorial, Insular and Maritime Claim (Guatemala/Belize), Case No. 177