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1600 BCE
El morro del tulcán Pyramid
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Period: 1500 BCE to 1537
Muisca Culture
The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest. The people spoke Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan language family, At the time of the Spaniard invasion, the area had a large population. Estimates vary from 500,000 to over 3 million inhabitants. They were encountered by conquistadors dispatched by the Spanish Empire in 1537 at the time of the conquest. -
1300 BCE
Chimitá petroglyphs in Santander Department
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1270 BCE
Zipacón pottery
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Period: 800 BCE to 800
The Herrera Period
The Herrera Period is a phase in the history of Colombia. It is a classic stage and age dated by various archaeologists. The Herrera Period predates the age of the Muisca, who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca and postdates the prehistory of the region in Colombia. The region of the Herrea Period,the Altiplano Cundiboyacense; high plateau of the central Colombian Andes has been inhabited since 12,400 years BP. -
1525
Santa Marta's Foundation
Was founded in the year 1525 by Rodrigo de Bastidas -
1533
Cartagena de Indias's foundation
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1538
Bogota's Foundation
Bogotá was founded as capital of the New Kingdom of Granada on August 6, 1538 by Gonzalo Jiménez Quesada -
1539
Tunja's foundation
The Spanish city was founded by captain Gonzalo Suárez Rendón on August 6, 1539, exactly one year after the capital Santafé de Bogotá. -
1541
El Cocuy's Foundation
On February 28, 1541, Captain Gonzalo García Zorro founded the town under the name of Gabriel de El Cocuy, later, Villa de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de El Cocuy. -
1543
Puente Nacional's foundation
Puente Nacional was founded on February 8, 1556 by Andrés Díaz Venero de Leyva. Former name Puente Real de Vélez. -
Guasca's foundation
Guasca was founded in June 1600 by the Judge of the Royal Court of Santafé, Don Luis Enríquez, and repopulated on October 7, 1639 by the Judge Don Gabriel de Carvajal, the indigenous reservation at that time was divided into two populations and these in turn in captaincies or "family neighborhoods". -
Cáqueza's foundation
The town of Cáqueza was founded by the cacique Lorenzo Gaque and by the oidor Luis Enríquez on October 23, 1600, formed by the Indians of this and the settlements of Estaquecá, Ubatoque, La Cabuya, Tingavita, Tunque, Tuira, Quirasoca and Quebrada Honda. -
Pauna's foundation
Pauna was founded in the 17th century on the site called Topo Grande by Captain Pedro Lancheros. In the year 1776 it was erected as a parish by action of the Archbishopric of
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Gran Colombia
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Republic of New Granada
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Foundation of Salento
In the colonial era, the main route from Popayán to Bogotá traveled over the Quindío Pass (a.k.a. "La Línea"), passing through the modern-day site of Salento. In 1830 Simón Bolívar traveled the route and ordered that it be upgraded due to its poor condition and strategic importance. However, the town was not established until 5 January 1842, after the Guerra de los Supremos. -
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Grenadine Confederation
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United States of Colombia
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Foundation of Filandia
El nombre de Filandia, procede del latín “filius”, que significa: hija y Andes, palabra derivada del vocablo antiguo quechua “anti” que significa: montañas; quedando como Filandia, “Hija de los Andes”. -
Foundation of Circasia
El nombre original de Circasia fue “La Plancha”. Así se llamaba el terreno que era propiedad de uno de sus fundadores. Años más tarde, el municipio fue bautizado como Circasia, que es una región montañosa de Rusia, entre el Mar Caspio y el Mar Negro. Su fundación se realizó en 1884, mediante la escritura 47 de la notaría de Salento, en la cual Isidoro Henao y Rafael Marín pusieron a disposición un lote de terreno de su propiedad, a quienes desearan hacer una nueva población denominada Circasia. -
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Republic of Colombia
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Thousand Days' War
The Thousand Days War begins between the Liberal and Conservative parties after the Conservative Party is accused of stealing the election. Some 100,000 of Colombia's four million people die in the civil war. The conflict dissolves when the American Navy shows up to protect its interests in the Panama Canal. The final peace treaty is signed aboard the USS Wisconsin after the ship's captain, Admiral Silas Casey, brokers the truce. -
U.S. Intervention
American warship USS Nashville blocks Colombian attempts to suppress the separatist movement in Panama. -
Panama Canal Work Begins
With U.S. support, Panama successfully separates from Colombia and work begins on the Panama Canal. -
San Bernardo's foundation
Around 1908, a rustic chapel, a small plaza and four houses was formed on the premises of the "Alejandría" hacienda, in the jurisdiction of the municipality of Pandi. The parish priest of Pandi would go to that village to celebrate mass. On July 22, 1910, Father Francisco Antonio Mazo, parish priest of Pandi, celebrated a mass and declared the town founded in honor of Monsignor Bernardo Herrera Restrepo, Archbishop of Bogotá. -
Harrison Narcotics Act
Although some native groups grow marijuana and coca leaf for use in traditional ceremonies, the Colombian government begins to criminalize drug production and consumption. They base their policies on the U.S. Harrison Narcotics Act, which prohibits production and consumption of cocaine and all opiates. -
Battle of Boyacá
Battle near Bogotá that resulted in a victory by South American insurgents over Spanish forces. It freed New Granada (Colombia) from Spanish control. A rebel army of about 3,000 men under generals Simón Bolívar and Francisco de Paula Santander first surprised and defeated the Spaniards in preliminary engagements at Gámeza (July 12) and Pantano de Vargas (July 25) and captured Tunja on August 5. -
The Banana massacre
Masacre de las bananeras: A massacre of workers for the United Fruit Company that occurred in the town of Ciénaga near Santa Marta -
Colombia–Peru War
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El Bogotazo
It refers to the massive riots that followed the assassination in Bogotá, of Liberal leader and presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán during the government of President Mariano Ospina Pérez. The 10-hour riot left much of downtown Bogotá destroyed. The aftershock of Gaitan's murder continued extending through the countryside and escalated a period of violence that had begun eighteen years before, and was triggered by the fall of the conservative party and the rise of the liberals.