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Bogotazo
9 April 1948, liberal presidencial candidate Jorge Eliecer Gaitán is murdered in the center of Bogota, setting the beginning of the violence era between the conservatives and the liberals across the hole country -
Military Government
Lieutenant General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla overthrew President Laureano Gómez -
Female Vote
Colombian Women acquire the right to vote -
National Front Era
The electoral regime was reinstated in 1958 forming the National Front in which liberals and conservatives would alternate in power and would be divided in half the public positions excluding other parties for the following 16 years. -
President Alberto Lleras Camargo
Alberto Lleras Camargo is elected President of the Republic, and first of the National Front. - July 20. put off nine years of recess, the National Congress is reinstalled. -
Visit of President of the United States of America
President of the United States Jhon F. Kennedy, visits Colombia with his wife Jacqueline, they are welcome by the President of Colombia, Lleras Camargo -
President Guillermo León Valencia
Posession of the presidency by the conservative candidate Guillermo León Valencia, second president of the established National Front -
Presidency Carlos Lleras Restrepo
Carlos Lleras Restrepo, third of the Presidents of the National Front, assumes the Presidency. He immediately begins negotiations for the creation of an Andean community and meets in Bogota with the presidents of Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru. The Andean Pact is created.
He is now the face that appears in the new bill of 100.000 pesos -
Pope Pablo VI visits Bogota
Pope Paul VI visits Colombia on the occasion of the Eucharistic Congress. -
Presidency Misael Pastrana
Misael Pastrana Borrero, fourth and last of the presidents of the National Front, takes over. -
Alfonso López Michelsen is elected president
Liberal Alfonso López Michelsen is elected by three million votes in the first free elections since 1958. -
Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala wins democratic elections
Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala, candidate of the liberal party wins the elections against his conservative rival Belisario Betancur -
Belisario Betancur elected President of Colombia
Conservative Belisario Betancur wins democratic elections -
First peace talks with armed group FARC-EP
Belisario Betancur initiates peace negotiations with the subversive group Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC). The government and the guerrillas agree to a cease-fire, which will last for three years. -
Take of the Palace of Justice by armed group M-19
A commando of the M-19 assaults the Palace of Justice and takes hostages to magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice and to several members of the Council of State. After twelve hours of intense fighting, the Justice Palace is razed to the ground and the "totality" of members of the guerrilla command and of the Supreme Court of Justice, as well as numerous civilians perish. -
President Virgilio Barco
Liberal Virgilio Barco is elected President of the Republic, with four million votes. December 17. The director of El Espectador, Guillermo Cano, is assassinated in Bogotá by order of the Medellín cartel chief, Pablo Escobar. An era of unstoppable political and social violence begins, and a war against drug trafficking is declared. -
Cesar Gaviria
César Gaviria is elected president and takes offices on 7 august 1990 -
New Constitution
The Constituent Assembly took place in 1991 and promulgated the new National Constitution that replaced that of 1886. -
Assassination of druglord Pablo Escobar Gaviria
Mafia lord Pablo Escobar is murdered in Medellin by the police -
Ernesto Samper is elected president
Liberal Ernesto Samper takes office as president of Colombia. Its administrative and governmental management is embroiled from the beginning by cassettes in which it would supposedly be verified that its campaign was financed by money of the drug traffic. Samper contends that this is false, and that if there were such moneys, it was without his knowledge. -
Andres Pastrana is elected president, begins peace talks with FARC-EP
This government of Samper was followed by Andrés Pastrana in 1998, which took the banner of achieving peace with the FARC through a series of agreements. The president gave this guerrilla a "Zone of distension" that did not serve to negotiate the longed for peace but as a refuge from attacks on the civilian population, hiding the kidnapped and stolen vehicles. -
Presidency of Alvaro Uribe Velez
President Alvaro Uribe Velez is elected in 2002 and reelected for his second administration in 2006 until 2010 -
Juan Manuel Santos, actual president of Colombia
Elected the first time in 2010-2014 and reelected for his second administration in 2014 until 2018. He achieved peace with armed group FARC-EP signed peace treaty in 2016 and also is awarded with the Nobel Peace Price in that same year
