The following lists events that happened in 1944 in El Salvador.
Incumbents President: Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (until 9 May), Andrés Ignacio Menéndez (9 May – 21 October), Osmín Aguirre y Salinas (starting 21 October) Vice President: Vacant
Events
January 3 January – 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.Krehm, William. Democracia y tiranias en el Caribe. Buenos Aires: Editorial Parnaso. 1957. pp. 37. He was the only candidate. The 1944 Salvadoran Constitutional Assembly election also but no results were posted either.Williams, Philip J. and Knut Walter (1997) Militarization and demilitarization in El Salvador's transition to democracy Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, p27
April 2 April – Rouge military units rebelled against President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. 4 April – The rebellion was suppressed and more than 100 civilians were shot dead in street demonstrations by the army.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
May 7 May – The Strike of Fallen Arms began against Hernández Martínez's government.A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-violent Conflict, by Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall, St. Martin's Press, 2015, pages 256-263 9 May – Maximiliano Hernández Martínez resigned and fled to Guatemala. Andrés Ignacio Menéndez became Provisional President. 11 May – The Strike of Fallen Arms ends.
November 21 October – Osmín Aguirre y Salinas deposed Andrés Ignacio Menéndez in a coup and became Provisional President.
Births 22 March – Octavio Ortiz, Catholic priest (d. 1979) 18 June – Salvador Sánchez Cerén, politician
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