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Bogotá

capital city of Colombia

23 dated entries naming Bogotá, drawn from 18 separate years between 1538 CE and 2000 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Bogotá, Colombia in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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16th century

  • 1538August 6 – Bogotá, Colombia is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.source

18th century

  • 1717May 27 – Spain creates the Viceroyalty of New Granada in South America from the northern section of the Viceroyalty of Peru. The viceroyalty, with a capital at Bogotá, later declares independence and splits up into what become the nations of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.source

19th century

  • 1810July 20 – First Republic of New Granada: Patria Boba: A junta of seven patriots, led by José Acevedo y Gómez, assemble in Bogotá in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia), to declare its independence from the Spanish Empire, the first South American nation to break away from Spain as the third oldest independent republic state after Haiti.source
  • 1828March 18 – Simón Bolívar, President of Colombia (and former President of Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia), departs from the capital at Bogotá in order to help his ally, General José Antonio Páez, suppress an uprising near the Venezuelan border, but is sidetracked by another rebellion in Cartagena.source

20th century

  • 1948April 9 – Liberal politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo) and a further 10 years of violence (La Violencia) across Colombia.source
  • 1948November 16 – The University of the Andes (Universidad de los Andes) is founded in Bogotá, Colombia.source
  • 19531 January – Liberal rebel groups attack the Palanquero Air Base with the hope of taking its jet planes and bombing Bogotá to force the resignation of Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez/Laureano Gómez.source
  • 195412 January – Vuelta a Colombia 1954:The 4th Vuelta a Colombia begins in Bogotá.source
  • 1958December 16 – A fire breaks out in the Vida Department Store in Bogotá, Colombia and kills 84 persons.source
  • 196811 August – A group of 9 priests, 3 nuns and 200 lay people identified with the Christians for Socialism current take over the Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago as a protest against the visit of Pope Paul VI to the International Eucharistic Congress in Bogotá (Colombia), the prohibition of contraceptives and the construction of the Votive Temple of Maipú. On the altar, the group places posters of Che Guevara and Camilo Torres, while outside they display a canvas with the legend "For a church next to the people and their struggle"source
  • 1973July 23 – The Avianca Building in Bogotá, Colombia, suffers a serious fire, in which four people are killed.source
  • 1985November 6 – Palace of Justice siege: Members of the 19th of April Movement (M-19) Marxist guerrilla group take over the Palace of Justice of Colombia in Bogotá and hold the Supreme Court hostage. Hours later, after a military raid, the incident leaves almost half of the 25 Supreme Court Justices dead.source
  • 198711 October – Jaime Pardo Leal, 1986 presidential candidate for the Patriotic Union, is assassinated in a drive-by shooting between La Mesa and Bogotá.source
  • 198817-18 September – The Concert of Concerts is held in the Estadio El Campín in Bogotá.source
  • 1989May 29 – An attempted assassination of Miguel Maza Marquez, director of the Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) in Bogotá, Colombia is committed by members of the Medellín Cartel, who kill four and injure 37.source
  • 198930 May – A car bomb containing 220 lbs of dynamite explodes in Bogotá. It kills 5, not including the intended target Miguel Maza Márquez, and injures over 100.source
  • 1989August 18 – Leading Colombian presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá.source
  • 19893 September – El Espectador offices in Bogotá are bombed, killing at least one person and injuring over 80.source
  • 199212 April – The 42nd Vuelta a Colombia ends in Bogotá. Fabio Parra of Seguros Amaya wins.source
  • 199315 April – A car bomb is detonated in front of Bogotá's Centro 93 shopping mall by the Medellín Cartel, killing 8 and injuring 242. The blast destroys 100 commercial properties and causes damage valued at 1.5 Billion COP.source
  • 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.source
  • 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.source
  • 20001 November – The Museo Botero opens to the public in La Candelaria, Bogotá, available free of charge.source

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