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1775 - 1783
United States War of Independence -
1789
French Revolution -
1808 - 1814
Invasion of Spain by France -
07/20/1810
Cry of Independence in Bogotá -
05/28/1811
Battle of the Lower Palacé, the royalists are defeated -
04/01/1811
The State of Cundinamarca is formed -
09/19/1811
Antonio Nariño becomes President of Cundinamarca -
11/11/1811
Independence of Cartagena de Indias -
12/02/1812
Start of fighting between Centralists and Federalists -
12/15/1812
Cartagena Manifesto of Simón Bolívar -
01/09/1813
Centralist Triumph in favor of Antonio Nariño in the Battle of Bogotá -
04/07/1813
Barranquilla Day -
12/12/1814
Federalists defeat the government of Nariño de Santa Fe -
08/26/1815
The army of General Pablo Morillo begins the siege of Cartagena de Indias -
12/06/1815
The fort of Cartagena de Indias falls, beginning the Reconquest of New Granada -
02/15/1819
Simón Bolívar proclaims the Republic of Colombia in the Angostura Congress -
07/25/1819
Battle of the Vargas Reservoir, a key victory for the independentistas -
08/07/1819
Battle of Boyacá, which causes the definitive fall of the Viceroyalty of New Granada -
08/10/1819
Simón Bolívar's troops enter Bogotá -
09/17/1819
The Republic of Colombia is proclaimed -
07/12/1819
First Constitution -
11/28/1819
The independence and annexation of the territory of the Panama isthmus to Gran Colombia is proclaimed -
12/24/1822
Black Christmas in Pasture by Simón Bolívar's troops -
04/08/1823
First ordinary congress of Gran Colombia -
06/01/1824
Battle of Barbecues, last fight against the Spanish in Colombia