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France invaded Spain
France invaded Spain and Napoleon made his brother, Jose Bonaparte, king, but most loyal subdites citizens didnt accept his government.
These trends influenced the Spanish colonies found in America. -
Scream of indepedence In Bogotá
A vase was the trigger that unleashed Colombia's scream for independence on July 20, 1810. After more than three centuries of conquest and colony of the Spanish empire, independence sentiment spread in America. -
Antonio Nariño becomes President of Cundinamarca
Nariño returned to Santa Fe in time to collaborate in the organization of the first neogranadino congress of which he was appointed secretary at the beginning of sessions in December 1810. -
Simón Bolívar proclaims the Republic of Colombia in the Angostura Congress
Installed on February 15, 1819 by the General in Chief Simón Bolívar in his capacity as Supreme Chief of the Republic of Venezuela and the Captain General of the Armies of Venezuela and New Granada -
Battle of Boyacá, which causes the definitive fall of the Viceroyalty of New Granada
The Battle of Boyacá was the most important confrontation in Colombia's war of independence that guaranteed the success of the New Granada Liberation Campaign. This event took place on August 7, 1819 at the Teatinos river crossing, near Tunja -
The Republic of Colombia is proclaimed
On 17 december 1819 the Republic of Colombia was proclaimed (historicaly known as Great Colombia but then called only Colombia), under the conservative leader Bolivar, with three departments (Venezuela, Cundinamarca and nominally Quito that was still in hands of royalists) -
First ordinary congress of Gran Colombia
Gran Colombia was a country in South America created in 1819 by the congress gathered in the city of Angostura through the Fundamental Law of the Republic, and later ratified by its counterpart meeting in Cúcuta in 1821, by the union of Venezuela and the New Granada in a single nation under the name of Republic of Colombia -
Batalla de Barbacoas, last fight against the Spanish in Colombia
The Battle of Bomboná (April 7, 1822) was a military confrontation fought in the context of the Southern Campaigns, part of the war of independence for Colombia and continuation of the Liberating Campaign of New Granada.
