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Conquisted of colombia
- It includes between the years 1500 to 1550.
- The first cities are founded.
- The Spaniards subjugate the communities to hand over their territories and goods.
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Independence of Colombia
The Independence of Colombia was the historical process that achieved the emancipation of Colombia from the Spanish Empire, ending the colonial period. ... The first phase of the war, from 1810 to 1819, was characterized by constant infighting between the defenders of independence. -
Slavery abolition
By law 21 of May 21, 1851, the liberal president José Hilario López decreed the definitive freedom of slaves in Colombia. -
One thousands days' war
The Thousand Day War was the largest civil war to hit the Republic of Colombia and Panama, between October 17, 1899 and November 21, 1902, thus extending for 1,130 days. It resulted in the victory of the ruling government and the subsequent separation of Panama in 1903. The conflict pitted members of the Colombian Liberal Party against the Colombian Conservative Party. -
Aviation in Colombia
The Germans Werner Kaemerer, Stuart Hosie, Alberto Tietjen and the Colombians Ernesto Cortissoz (the first president of the airline), Rafael Palacio, Cristóbal Restrepo, Jacobo Correa and Arístides Noguera, founded the Colombian Society of Air Transport - SCADTA, in Barranquilla. which started aviation in Colombia. -
Banana's massacre
This was perpetrated by a regiment of the Colombian Armed Forces under the presidential mandate of Miguel Abadía Méndez and executed by order of General Cortés Vargas in the municipality of Ciénaga on December 6, 1928, who vilely murdered an undetermined number of protesters who were protesting because of the appalling working conditions at the United Fruit Company. -
The M-19 appears
The April 19 Movement was a Colombian guerrilla movement born as a result of electoral fraud, carried out by former president Misael Pastrana Borrero. After its demobilization, it became a center-left political movement known as AD-M19 (Alianza Democrática M-19). -
Assault on the national palace of justice
it was an assault perpetrated in Bogotá, Colombia. The M-19 held about 350 hostages. The guerrillas, who denounced that the army a few months ago had broken a ceasefire after, according to them, the government of Belisario Betancur Cuartas failed to comply with the Corinto agreements signed on August 24, 1984. -
Tragedy in Armero
The Armero tragedy was a natural disaster resulting from the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano on Wednesday, November 13, 1985, affecting the departments of Caldas and Tolima, Colombia. After sixty-nine years of inactivity, the eruption took nearby towns by surprise, despite the fact that the Government had received warnings from multiple volcanic agencies since the first signs of volcanic activity appeared in September 1985. -
Narco-terrorism in Colombia
Narcoterrorism is also the name given to the period of Colombian history, from 1984 to 1993, characterized by the confrontation between the successive governments of Belisario Betancur, Virgilio Barco and César Gaviria with drug traffickers organized in powerful mafias that called themselves Los Extraditables . belonging to the Medellín Cartel and led by Pablo Escobar Gaviria and Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha -
death of luis carlos galan
Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento was a Colombian lawyer, economist, journalist and politician, candidate for the presidency of Colombia in 1982 for the New Liberalism. Galán was assassinated on August 18, 1989, shortly before starting his speech at a public electoral event in the municipality of Soacha, Cundinamarca by order of Pablo Escobar -
Avian tragedy
A mafia bomb explodes aboard an Avianca plane leaving the Bogotá airport. More than a hundred people perish. A National Constituent Assembly is convened, by popular election. César Gaviria is elected president and takes office on August 7. Capo Pablo Escobar Gaviria is handed over to the authorities. -
Political constitution 1991
The new Constitution drawn up by the National Assembly enters into force. Among its most discussed articles is the prohibition of the extradition of nationals. -
Peace treaty
After more than fifty years of armed conflict with the FARC, the Peace Agreement puts an end to the violence with that guerrilla, the largest in Colombia. ... The Agreement includes a comprehensive agrarian development plan with access to land and services and a strategy for substituting illicit sustainable crops. -
Coronavirus
Coronavirus disease (COVID 19) is an infectious disease caused by a recently discovered coronavirus.
Since Colombia was infected, new homes and deaths have been registered every day.
