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1903 in El Salvador

list of events

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ97738279 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following lists events that happened in 1903 in El Salvador.

Incumbents

President: Tomás Regalado Romero (until 1 March), Pedro José Escalón (starting 1 March)

Vice President: Francisco Antonio Reyes (until 1 March), Calixto Velado (starting 1 March)

Events

January

January – Voters in El Salvador voted for Pedro José Escalón to be President of El Salvador.

March

1 March – Conservative Pedro José Escalón was sworn in as President of El Salvador. Calixto Velado was sworn in as Vice President.

Undated

The Second Totoposte War was fought with Guatemala.

Deaths

2 March – Rafael Zaldívar, politician (b. 1834)

21 March – Carlos Ezeta, politician (b.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1903, 1834—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Salvador, list and events is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1903 in El Salvador” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.