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Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas Venezuela to an aristocrat family on July 24, 1783
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in 1799 he traveled to Spain to complete his education
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he got married, but his young wife lived only one year.
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María Teresa Josefa Antonia Joaquina Rodríguez del Toro Alayza died after contracting yellow fever at 21 years of age
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Bolívar and Fernando Rodríguez del Toro, a childhood friend and relative of his wife, made their way to Paris and arrived in time for Napoleon to be proclaimed Emperor of the French.
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Beginning in Lyon, they traveled through the Savoy Alps and then to Milan. The trio arrived on 26 May 1805 and witnessed Napoleon's coronation as King of Italy.
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Bolívar had returned to Paris and desired passage to Venezuela, where Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda had just attempted an invasion with American volunteers.
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sailed for Venezuela, He began to meet with other Creole elites to discuss independence from Spain.
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The Bolivian War of Independence began in 1809 with Simon Bolivar who led Bolivia on the path to democracy and independence. Bolivian Independence, achieved after centuries of Spanish colonial rule, was a process that spanned more than 15 years, from 1809 to 1825 and involved numerous battles and countless deaths.
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In the first public speech of his career, he declared, “Let us lay the cornerstone of American freedom without fear.
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Bolívar began his military career in 1810 as a militia officer in the Venezuelan War of Independence, fighting Royalist forces for the first and second Venezuelan republics and the United Provinces of New Granada.
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On 26 March 1812, a powerful earthquake devastated Republican Venezuela, Bolívar, who was still near Caracas, rushed into the city to participate in the rescue of survivors and exhumation of the dead.
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On 2 January 1814, Bolívar was made the dictator of a Second Republic of Venezuela
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in May 1815, Simón Bolívar was forced to leave Cartagena de Indias and go into exile on the island of Jamaica, a British colony, where he wrote the famous independence proclamation known as the Jamaica Letter.
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After Bolivar landed in Venezuela in 1816, he decreed freedom for those slaves who joined his liberation army
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he successfully liberated three territories—New Granada (Colombia and Panama), Venezuela, and Quito (Ecuador)—from Spanish rule.
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In 1822, he became dictator of Peru. Upper Peru became a separate state, which was named Bolivia in Bolívar's honor.
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he Congress of Upper Peru created a sovereign nation named after him, the Republic of Bolivia. Bolívar helped write the nation's constitution.
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At the end of 1826, Bolivar re- returned to Colombia to find Venezuela in rebellion. Re-elected to another four-year term as president, Bolivar stopped a possible civil war by promising the Venezuelans to re-form the constitution.
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the Liberator died in 1830 after a protracted illness. According to history books, he died of tuberculosis (2).