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Historical Timeline for Colombia - A chronology of key events
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Before the Spanish conquest ➡ Colombian territory was populated by indigenous Chibchas and the Caribbean.

1499-1500 ➡ Discovery of Colombia by Alonso de Ojeda.

1525 ➡ Foundation of Santa Marta, by Rodrigo de Bastidas.

1538 ➡ Foundation of Santa Fé de Bogotá by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.

1580-1820 ➡ Period of the Colony.

1783 ➡ Establishment of the Expédición Botánica, led by the Spanish naturalist and priest José Celestino Mutis.

1794 ➡ Impression of Human Rights by Antonio Nariño, precursor of independence.

1818 ➡ Proclamation of the new Kingdom of Granada.

December 17, 1819 ➡ Bolívar proclaims Greater Colombia (grouping together Ecuador, Venezuela and New Granada).

1830 ➡ Proclamation of the Republic of New Granada. Death of Simón Bolívar in Santa Marta.

1863 ➡ Establishment of a federal system. Independence of the nine states forming Colombia. Beginning of civil wars.

1886 ➡ New constitution, under the presidency of Rafael Núñez.

1899-1902 ➡ War of the Thousand Days between liberals and conservatives. Over 100,000 dead.

1903 ➡ Independence of Panama from Colombia.

1934-1938 ➡ Liberal President Alfonso López Pumarejo grants a series of social rights.

1948 ➡ Assassination of liberal leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán and start of the period of Violencia.

1948-1957 ➡ New civil war between liberals and conservatives.

1953-1957 ➡ Dictatorship of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla.

1960 ➡ Appearance of the first guerrillas.

1991 ➡ New constitution.

1993 ➡ Death of Pablo Escobar, marking the end of the big drug cartels.

1994 ➡ Ernesto Samper Pizano is the new head of state.

1998 ➡ Election of Andrés Pastrana Arango.

2002 ➡ Presidency of Alvaro Uribe, reelected in 2006.

2008 ➡ Death of the historic leader of the FARC, Manuel Marulanda Vélez.

July 2, 2008 ➡ Ingrid Betancourt, hostage of the FARC, is freed by the Colombian army.

May 2010 ➡ Election to the presidency of Juan Manuel Santos.

June 2011 ➡ Adoption of the law on victims of the Colombian conflict.

October 2012 ➡ Beginning of peace negotiations in Oslo between Santos and the FARC.

June 2014 ➡ Juan Manuel Santos is reelected.

September 2016 ➡ Historic peace agreement signed with the FARC.

October 2016 ➡ Rejection of the agreement during the referendum; Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Santos.

December 2016 ➡ The new peace agreement is ratified by Congress.

March 31, 2017 ➡ Mudslides cause the death of 323 people in Mocoa.

June 2017 ➡ Total disarmament of the FARC.

September 2017 ➡ The FARC transform into a political party. Visit of Pope Francis.

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