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He was born in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Events in the life of Simon Bolivar.
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(Specific day and month not available) Bolivar and a group of patriots siezed Carcaras and proclaimed independence from Spain.
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(Specific day and month not available) After returning from Great Britain in search of help, Bolivar came back to an army of patriots and retook Caracas from the Spanish control.
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(Specific day and month not available) He marched into New Granada and liberated Boyar in Columbia.
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(Specific day and month not available) In the honor of Bolivar, Upper Peru became a seperate state named Bolivia.
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He died at the age of 47 from tuberculosis in Santa Marta, Columbia. In life, he had been known as El Liberator because of all the land he had freed from the Spanish.
