Francisco Morazán Quesada is elected President of…

Francisco Morazán Quesada is elected President of Central America in a general election that brings the Liberal party to power in the republic.

Morazán enacts many reforms, including freedom of speech, of the press, and of religion; equality of people of all classes before the law; and trial by jury.

The Conservatives object to all this.

The separation of Church and State, including allowing secular marriage and divorce and an end to government enforced tithing, makes much of the clergy an enemy of Morazán and the Liberals.