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History timeline

Colombia

20 periods and events, 100 BCE – 2016.

Periods and events

WhenPeriod or eventKindSource
100 BCE – 1537Pre-Columbian cultures (Muisca, San Agustín)前哥伦布时期文化(穆伊斯卡、圣阿古斯丁)

The Muisca Confederation and other societies of goldwork and stone sculpture.

OtherSource
1499 – 1538Spanish conquest and Bogotá founded西班牙征服与波哥大建城

Spain conquers the highlands; Bogotá is founded in 1538.

ColonialSource
1717 – 1810Viceroyalty of New Granada新格拉纳达总督辖区

Spanish viceroyalty centered on Bogotá, covering much of northern South America.

ColonialSource
1781Revolt of the Comuneros公社起义

Popular uprising in Socorro against Bourbon taxes; a precursor of independence.

MovementSource
1810 – 1819Independence and Gran Colombia独立与大哥伦比亚

Bolívar's victory at Boyacá (1819) secures independence within the union of Gran Colombia.

WarSource
1819Battle of Boyacá博亚卡战役

Bolívar's decisive victory secures New Granada's independence.

WarSource
1831Dissolution of Gran Colombia大哥伦比亚解体

The union breaks apart; the Republic of New Granada (later Colombia) emerges.

PoliticsSource
1870 – 1930Coffee becomes the export economy咖啡成为出口经济支柱

Smallholder coffee in Antioquia and the Eje Cafetero ties Colombia to world markets.

EconomySource
1886Regeneration and the Constitution of 1886“再生”运动与1886年宪法

Núñez replaces the federal United States of Colombia with a centralist, Catholic Republic of Colombia.

PoliticsSource
1899 – 1902Thousand Days' War千日战争

Liberal–Conservative civil war leaves about 100,000 dead and the state exhausted.

WarSource
1903Separation of Panama巴拿马分离

US-backed secession clears the way for the Panama Canal.

PoliticsSource
1927 – 2014Gabriel García Márquez加夫列尔·加西亚·马尔克斯

Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude; Nobel Prize 1982.

LiteratureSource
1928Banana Massacre香蕉大屠杀

Army fires on striking United Fruit workers in Ciénaga; later fictionalized by García Márquez.

PoliticsSource
1948 – 1958La Violencia暴力时期

A decade of bloody partisan conflict between Liberals and Conservatives.

WarSource
1958 – 1974National Front全国阵线

Liberals and Conservatives alternate the presidency to end La Violencia; excludes other parties, feeding guerrilla movements.

PoliticsSource
1964 – 2016Armed conflict with FARC与哥伦比亚革命武装力量的武装冲突

Decades of guerrilla insurgency, paramilitaries and drug violence.

WarSource
1976 – 1993Medellín Cartel and the drug war麦德林集团与毒品战争

Pablo Escobar's cartel wages terror against the state until his death in 1993.

WarSource
1985 – 1985Palace of Justice siege司法宫围攻事件

M-19 guerrillas seize the Supreme Court; the army's assault kills about 100, including 11 justices.

WarSource
1991Constitution of 19911991年宪法

New charter expands rights, creates the Constitutional Court and recognizes a pluri-ethnic nation.

PoliticsSource
2016Peace agreement with FARC与FARC的和平协议

The government and FARC sign a peace deal ending the hemisphere's longest insurgency.

PoliticsSource

Also in South America