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Colombia

144 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Colombia, 1847 CE to 2008 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

19th century

8 entries, 1847 CE to 1849 CE

20th century

125 entries, 1901 CE to 1999 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 190123 February 23–27 August – Battle of AguadulceColombiasource
  • 1933August 27 – opening of Captain Germán Olano Moreno Air BaseColombiasource
  • 195020 November – The International Court of Justice hands down their decision on Colombia v. Peru or the Asylum case, siding with Peru. This allows Peru to deny Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, leader of the American People's Revolutionary Alliance, safe passage to political asylum in Colombia.Colombiasource
  • 195115 June – Colombian Battalion is deployed to Busan.Colombiasource
  • 19518 January – The club Deportes Quindío founded in Armenia.Colombiasource
  • 195325 October – The Cristo Rey is inaugurated in Cali.Colombiasource
  • 195310 October – The Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia is established in Tunja, Boyacá.Colombiasource
  • 195416 May – The Hipódromo de Techo is founded in Bogotá.Colombiasource
  • 195530 November – The internal debt of Colombia reaches 880 million pesos, a rise from 489 million at the end of 1954.Colombiasource
  • 1956The Cartagena Refinery is built.Colombiasource
  • 19859 December – The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Vicente del Caguán is established in San Vicente del Caguán, Caquetá.Colombiasource
  • 19856–7 November – Palace of Justice siege: 98 people, 11 law enforcement personnel, 33 guerillas, and 43 civilians, are killed when M-19 Movement members take over the Palace of Justice and take 300 hostages, planning to hold a trial against president Betancur in retaliation for the killing of Iván Marino Ospina.The dead included 11 of the Supreme Court magistrates.Colombiasource
  • 198617 December – Pablo Escobar's Medellín cartel murders El Espectador director and journalist Guillermo Cano Isaza. In the following 24 hours, the Colombian press at large protested his murder by not airing any radio or television news nor printing any print media.Colombiasource
  • 198710-22 June – The 37th Vuelta a Colombia is held, Pablo Wilches wins.Colombiasource
  • 19884 March – Honduras and La Negra farm massacre: 20 ex-guerrillas recruited by the Colombian Army's Voltíjeros battalion attack the Honduras farm in Currulao, Antioquia and kill 17 of its workers. The same men then travel to the nearby La Negra farm and kill 3 of its workers.Colombiasource
  • 19893 September – El Espectador offices in Bogotá are bombed, killing at least one person and injuring over 80.Colombiasource
  • 198915 October – 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL–OFC play-off).Colombiasource
  • 1991Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa CatalinaColombiasource
  • 199119 November – 1991 Chocó earthquake.Colombiasource
  • 19934–11 August – Tropical Storm Bret passes over northern coastal areas of Colombia, killing one person. The storm kills a total of 231 people across Colombia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica.Colombiasource
  • 199413 February – Three homeless children, Javier Gonzalez (16), Jairo Murcia (14), “Asprilla” (12), are shot while sleeping and killed in Timiza, Bogotá. They are believed to be victims of the "social cleansing" carried out by armed right-wing gangs and militias.Colombiasource
  • 19951 January – The G3 Free Trade Agreement between Colombia, México, and Venezuela goes into effect.Colombiasource
  • 19962 September – President Samper announces that Ecopetrol has discovered oil in Medina, Cundinamarca.Colombiasource
  • 1997The Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, the third-largest mosque in Latin America, completes construction in Maicao, La Guajira.Colombiasource
  • 199828 April – Men claiming to be members of the Peasant Self-Defense Group of Córdoba and Urabá (ACCU) kidnap 6 previously displaced men in Bello, Antioquia, killing at least 4 (the other 2 being 'disappeared').Colombiasource

21st century

11 entries, 2000 CE to 2008 CE

  • 20001 November – The Museo Botero opens to the public in La Candelaria, Bogotá, available free of charge.Colombiasource
  • 200024 June – Reminiscencias dance club shooting: Juan de Jesús Lozano Velásquez kills 11 people and injures seven at the Reminiscencias dance club in Bogotá after opening fire with a machine gun.Colombiasource
  • 200117 June – The 51st Vuelta a Colombia begins Ciudad de Popayán, Cauca.Colombiasource
  • 2001Uncertain date – The programadora En Vivo (previously Nuevos Días TV) ceases operations.Colombiasource
  • 200117 May – A car bomb goes off in Parque Lleras in Medellín, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 50.Colombiasource
  • 200230 January – Journalist Orlando Sierra Hernández is shot in the head twice while walking with his daughter in Manizales, Caldas. He dies in the hospital the following day.Colombiasource
  • 200223 February – Presidential candidate Íngrid Betancourt and her campaign manager Clara Rojas are kidnapped by the FARC near San Vicente del Caguán.Colombiasource
  • 200330 August – The FARC releases a second proof of life to the family of kidnapped French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt.Colombiasource
  • 200524 July – The 55th Vuelta a Colombia begins in Pitalito, Huila.Colombiasource
  • 20058 April – Solar eclipse of April 8, 2005: An annular version of a total solar eclipse is visible in areas of Colombia.Colombiasource
  • 2008June 24 - Representing Pope Benedict XVI, Colombian Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos makes a reconciliation offer to the conservative Society of St. Pius X. Hoyos requested the Society respect the Pope's authority, and expected a positive response by the end of the month.Colombiasource