LATIN AMERICA BOLIVIA
   
HISTORY - BOLIVIA

Principal dates of the Bolivian history

900 to 1200 Civilizations of Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku).


1544 Discovered money mines of Potosi.


1555 Potosi, issued imperial city by Charles Quint.


Half of 18th Decline of the exploitation of the money mines of Potosi.


1781 Immense Indian revolt. Sit of Paz by Tupac Katavi.


1809 Call to the revolt of Pedro Domingo Murillo.


1810 - 1820 Guerrilla rural against the Spanish troops.


1824 Decisive Victoire of the marshal Sweetens in Ayacucho.


1825 Creation of repulic of Bolivar (ex- High Peru). chart of Bolivia in 1825


1879 - 1883 War of the Pacific. Bolivia loses its access to the sea definitively.


1901 War of Accre with Brazil. Bolivia loses most of its territory.


Beginning 20th century The exploitation of tin replaces that of the money. Simon I Patino becomes the richest man of Latin America.


1932 - 1935 War of Chaco with Paraguay. Bolivia loses 200.000 km ².


1946 Inversion of Gualberto Villarroel, a soldier progressist who wanted to attack the capacity of the owners of mines. It is hung with a reverberator.


1952 Working and country revolution.


1964 Military coup d'etat of the Barrientos general.


1967 Died of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, in the south of the country.


1971 Creation of a “Parliament of the People” short period of being able of the left.
Coup d'etat carried out by the Meza general.


1978 An hunger strike started by two women of minors, puts an end to the dictatorship.


1979 First election of one woman to the presidency of the republic, Lydia G. Tejada.


1980 New bloody coup d'etat carried out by the Meza general.


1982 Return to the democracy with the left government of Hernan Siles Zuazo.


1985 Paz Estensoro, leader historical of the revolution of 1952, returns to the capacity.


1986 Go of the minors on La Paz stopped by the army.


1989 Election of president Jaime Paz Zamora.


1993 Election of Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and Victor Hugo Cardenas, first Indian vice-president of the continent.


1997 Election with the presidency of the general Hugo Banzer Suarez, already with the capacity between 1971 and 1978 and that its opponents continue to call “the dictator”


1998 Earthquake which raye of the chart towns of Mizque and Totora. Assessment 250 dead.


October 2003 Evo Morales takes the head of a revolt against liberal president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, which represses it in blood (80 dead).


Dec 18, 2005 Evo Morales is elected president of the republic as of the first turn with 53.72% of the voices.


 
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