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President of Colombia

head of state and head of government of Colombia

9 dated entries naming President of Colombia, drawn from 9 separate years between 1828 CE and 1994 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 President of the Republic of New Granada in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 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
  • 18491 April - José Hilario López is elected President of the Republic of New Granada.source
  • 1863May 8 – The Granadine Confederation becomes the United States of Colombia, under President Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera.source

20th century

  • 19507 August – Laureano Gómez of the Conservative Party becomes the 18th President of Colombia.source
  • 19515 November – Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez becomes acting President of Colombia.source
  • 1960April 19 – Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia, 2022–2026source
  • 1990February 15 – In Cartagena, Colombia, a summit is held between President of the United States George H. W. Bush, President of Bolivia Jaime Paz Zamora, President of Colombia Virgilio Barco Vargas, and President of Peru Alan García. The leaders pledge additional cooperation in fighting international drug trafficking.source
  • 1991July 4 – The Constituent Assembly of Colombia proclaims a new constitution, allowing the President of Colombia César Gaviria to lift the country's seven-year-long state of siege.source
  • 1994June 19 – Ernesto Samper is elected President of Colombia.source

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