Hugo Chávez elected in Venezuela
1998 · Event
Chávez wins the presidency, launching a 'Bolivarian Revolution' that reshaped Venezuela and the Latin American left.
On these timelines: Latin America, Master
More from Latin America
- Spanish Conquest of the Americas (1519)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521)
- Columbian Exchange (1492)
- Haitian Revolution begins (1791)
- Toussaint Louverture issues Haitian constitution (1801)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
Around 1998
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
- Crazy (Gnarls Barkley) (2006)
- I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston) (1992)