Language/Spanish/Culture/Colombia-Timeline
Before the Spanish conquest โก Colombian territory was populated by indigenous Chibchas and the Caribbean.
1499-1500 โก Discovery of Colombia by Alonso de Ojeda.
1525 โก Foundation of Santa Marta, by Rodrigo de Bastidas.
1538 โก Foundation of Santa Fรฉ de Bogotรก by Gonzalo Jimรฉnez de Quesada.
1580-1820 โก Period of the Colony.
1783 โก Establishment of the Expรฉdiciรณn Botรกnica, led by the Spanish naturalist and priest Josรฉ Celestino Mutis.
1794 โก Impression of Human Rights by Antonio Nariรฑo, precursor of independence.
1818 โก Proclamation of the new Kingdom of Granada.
December 17, 1819 โก Bolรญvar proclaims Greater Colombia (grouping together Ecuador, Venezuela and New Granada).
1830 โก Proclamation of the Republic of New Granada. Death of Simรณn Bolรญvar in Santa Marta.
1863 โก Establishment of a federal system. Independence of the nine states forming Colombia. Beginning of civil wars.
1886 โก New constitution, under the presidency of Rafael Nรบรฑez.
1899-1902 โก War of the Thousand Days between liberals and conservatives. Over 100,000 dead.
1903 โก Independence of Panama from Colombia.
1934-1938 โก Liberal President Alfonso Lรณpez Pumarejo grants a series of social rights.
1948 โก Assassination of liberal leader Jorge Eliรฉcer Gaitรกn and start of the period of Violencia.
1948-1957 โก New civil war between liberals and conservatives.
1953-1957 โก Dictatorship of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla.
1960 โก Appearance of the first guerrillas.
1991 โก New constitution.
1993 โก Death of Pablo Escobar, marking the end of the big drug cartels.
1994 โก Ernesto Samper Pizano is the new head of state.
1998 โก Election of Andrรฉs Pastrana Arango.
2002 โก Presidency of Alvaro Uribe, reelected in 2006.
2008 โก Death of the historic leader of the FARC, Manuel Marulanda Vรฉlez.
July 2, 2008 โก Ingrid Betancourt, hostage of the FARC, is freed by the Colombian army.
May 2010 โก Election to the presidency of Juan Manuel Santos.
June 2011 โก Adoption of the law on victims of the Colombian conflict.
October 2012 โก Beginning of peace negotiations in Oslo between Santos and the FARC.
June 2014 โก Juan Manuel Santos is reelected.
September 2016 โก Historic peace agreement signed with the FARC.
October 2016 โก Rejection of the agreement during the referendum; Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Santos.
December 2016 โก The new peace agreement is ratified by Congress.
March 31, 2017 โก Mudslides cause the death of 323 people in Mocoa.
June 2017 โก Total disarmament of the FARC.
September 2017 โก The FARC transform into a political party. Visit of Pope Francis.