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Tea Motin
A group of costumed settlers dumped the cargo of three British ships into the sea, this took place in the port of Boston. -
First Continental Congress
It was a group of representatives elected by the legislative bodies of the American colonies of Great Britain, except Georgia, in Philadelphia. -
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Boston Siege
An episode of the United States War of Independence, the result of which was a strategic victory for the Americans and the evacuation or withdrawal of the British from Boston, which headed by sea to Nova Scotia. -
Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
Document drawn up by the second Continental Congress that proclaimed that the Thirteen North American Colonies had defined themselves as thirteen new sovereign and independent States and no longer recognized British rule. -
Community rebellion
Armed movement created in the Viceroyalty of New Granada, within the framework of the multiple responses that were generated to the advance of Bourbon reformism in America during the government of Carlos III. -
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Royal Botanical Expedition of the New Kingdom of Granada
Inventory of the nature of the Viceroyalty of New Granada made by José Celestino Mutis during the reign of Carlos III. Its scientific objectives resulted in the herbization and classification of 20,000 plant species and 7000 animals from a territory that corresponds to the current Republic of Colombia. -
Paris treaty
It was between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America that its purpose was to end the War of Independence of the United States. -
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United States Presidential Election 1788-1789
It was the first presidential election. The elections inaugurated the Electoral College system for the election of the American president, in force to date, with 69 seats at the time of the first election and therefore requiring 35 to win. -
Cry of Independence of Colombia
The Creoles sought independence from the Spanish crown and planned to induce a popular revolt in which the residents raised their discontent at the Spanish mandate. -
Abolition slavery patriotic soldiers
Simón Bolívar decreed absolute freedom for all slaves who enlisted in the ranks of the Patriot Army (EP), a group of militias that fought in the wars of independence of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela against the Spanish empire -
Boyaca's battle
The most important confrontation of the Colombian war of independence that guaranteed the success of the New Granada Liberation Campaign. This event took place at the crossing of the Teatinos River, near Tunja.
