Principal dates of the Colombian history

7000 front. J.-C. First sedentary establishments on the territory

1500 J.-C. Appearance of first great civilizations: San Agustin, Muísca, Tairona, Sinú

1000 front. J.-C. Development of San Agustín, Malagana...

500 front. J.-C. Cultures Tumaco, Calima, El Infiernito.

YEAR 0 Cultures Tierradentro, Tolima, Quimbaya.

500 Nariño culture.

1400 Blooming of Muíscas on Altiplano.

1492 Christophe Colomb discovers America.

1499 Alonzo de Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci unload in Cabo of Vela (Guajira)

end XIVe and beginning of XVIe century The INCA Huayna Capac undertakes the conquest of the territories of Quito, in the south of current Colombia.

1503 Christophe Colomb reaches the gulf of Uraba at the time of his last voyage to Americas.

1510 First Spanish settlements on the ground closes in San Sebastian de Urabá and Santa María the Antigua del Darién.

1513 Vasco Núñez de Balboa crosses the isthmus of Darién (Panama) and discovers the Pacific which it baptizes Mar LED On.

1525 Rodrogo de Bastidas melts Santa Marta.

1528 Died of the INCA Huayna Capac and a war of succession between its sons, Huascar and Atahualpa.

1532 In November, Pizarro captures the INCA Atahualpa in Cajamarca, in the North of current Peru.

1533 In January, Pedro de Herredia melts Calamari (Cartagena)
In August, execution of Atahualpa with Cajamarca.

1538 August 6, foundation of Santa Fé de Bogotá.

1539 Revolts of the Indians led by cacic Tundama; in December demolished of the Indians to the battle of the pantanos of Guerra.

1547 Creation of the royal Audience of Fé Health.

1717 Official creation of the viceroyalty of the New Grenade (Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela).

1781 Revolt of Comuneros.

1810 July 20, the revolutionists deposit the viceroy.

1811 November 11, the province of Cartagena proclaims its independence.

1812 Bolivar with Cartagena, countryside of Magdalena.

1815 Repressions Spanish of Pablo Murillo.

1819 August 7, battles of the bridge of Boyacá and victory of Santander and Bolivar.
December 17, with the congress of Angostura, creation of the Republic of Gran Colombia (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador)

1821 Panama joined Gran Colombia.

1825 Libertador Simon Bolivar gives his name to Bolivia from which he becomes the first president.

1830 Ecuador and Venezuela separate from Gran Colombia.
17 December, Died of Bolivar Simon with Santa Marta.

1886 Creation of the Republic of Colombia, Rafael Núñez becomes the first president about it.

1889 1000 day old war, started by the Liberals against the Conservatives.

1902 End of the 1000 day old war.

1904 The country slips towards the dictatorship.

1910 Reform constitution, the presidential mandate is tiny room at four years.

1928 The strike of the farm labourers of United Fruits ends in a massacre.

1930 The Liberals are with the capacity for 16 years.
1948 Assassination of the liberal candidate to the presidency, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. Bloody riots, Bogotazo.

1956 Catastrophe of Cali: explosion of six trucks of dynamite, several thousands of victims.

1970 Strikes of the students. Bloody repression of the army. Beginnings of the traffic of drug, intensification of the movements of guerrilla.

1979 Taking of hostages to the embassy of the Dominican Republic.

1982 Gabriel Garcia Márquez receives the Nobel Prize of literature.

1983 Popayán is shaved by an earthquake.
1985 Eruption of Nevado del Ruiz, Armero destroyed; 25 000 dead.
The guerrilla of M-19 occupies the law courts of the capital, attack of the army which finishes in a blood bath.

1986 Discovered large layer of Pozo Caño Limón, rich in oil.

1989 Assassination by the narcotrafiquants of Shine Carlos Galan, candidate with the presidential elections. Attack counters the newspaper El Espectador.

1990 Beginning of a series of removals of personalities.
1994 Election of Samper, Liberal.
1995 President Samper is shown to have profited from the support of the narcotrafiquants to finance his presidential campaign.

1998 Election with the presidency of the Republic of the Conservative Andres Pastrana.

2002 End of the process of peace engaged in 1999 with the guerrilla of the CRAF.
February 24, Ingrid Betancourt (candidate ecologist with Presidential) is removed by the CRAF.
Alvaro Uribe Vélez is elected president of the Republic.