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1783 – Simón Bolívar is born (July 24, Caracas, Venezuela).
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1795 – Antonio José de Sucre is born (February 3, Cumaná, Venezuela).
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1795 – Pedro Blanco Soto is born (October 19, Cochabamba, Upper Peru, now Bolivia).
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1804-1807 – Bolívar travels through Europe and witnesses Napoleon's coronation.
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1809-1810 – The first independence movements begin in Latin America.