Timeline of Bogotá explained
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bogotá, Colombia.
Prehistory
Pre-conquest
See also: Muisca Confederation and Spanish conquest of the Muisca.
16th century
See also: New Kingdom of Granada.
17th century
- 1604 - Jesuit college established
- 1616 - Population: 3,000
- 1621
- Mint established
- Church of San Francisco built.
- 1635 - Iglesia de San Ignacio (church) opens
- 1653 - Our Lady of the Rosary University founded
- 1674 - Santa Clara church built
- 1675 - Leprosy epidemic
- 1681 - Typhus epidemic
- 1692 - Measles epidemic
18th century
- 1714 - Earthquake
- 1717 - City becomes capital of the Viceroyalty of New Granada
- 1739 - The San Pedro hospital is renamed as the San Juan de Dios hospital
- 1777 - Real Biblioteca Publica (library) founded[2]
- 1781 - The rebellion of the Comuneros (commoners in English) takes place
- 1782 - José Antonio Galán and other leaders of the Comuneros are hanged in the Plaza Mayor de Santafé
- 1783 - La Enseñanza school founded
- 1785 - Earthquake
- 1789 - Population: 18,161
- 1791
- First map of the city is made by Domingo Esquiaqui
- Papel periódico de la Ciudad de Santa Fe de Bogota newspaper begins publication[3]
19th century
- 1801 - Population: 21,394
- 1803 - Observatorio Astronómico constructed
- 1810 - City becomes capital of the Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca
- 1811 - Local revolt against Spanish rule.
- 1816
- 1819
- Battle of Boyacá and the Spanish evacuate.
- Santafé de Bogotá is renamed as Bogotá
- Population: 30,000
- 1823 - Primatial Cathedral of Bogotá completed.
- 1824 - Colombian National Museum opens
- 1836 - Central Cemetery of Bogotá established
- 1840
- Trolleybus starts operating
- El Día newspaper begins publication[4]
- 1846
- Sociedad Filarmonica founded[5]
- Caja de Ahorros (bank) established
- Statue of Simón Bolívar is erected in the center of the Plaza Mayor
- Police Force of Bogotá established
- 1847 - Society of Artisans organized[6]
- 1864 - Medicine & Natural Sciences Society founded
- 1865 - Telegraph begins operating
- 1867 - Universidad Nacional de Colombia (national university) is founded
- 1870 - Banco de Bogota founded
- 1871 - Academia Colombiana de la Lengua (national language academy) founded
- 1875 - Capitol building constructed
- 1876 - Prison begins operating.[7]
- 1881 - Papel Periódico Ilustrado begins publication[8]
- 1884
- Compañía Colombiana de Teléfonos (telephone company) established
- Tramway begins operating[9]
- 1886 - Universidad Externado de Colombia and Escuela de Bellas Artes (school)[10] founded
- 1887 - The aqueduct is upgraded to an iron aqueduct pipe
- 1889
- 1890 - Bavaria brewery in business
- 1891 - The Medicine & Sciences Society is renamed as Academia de Medicina (Colombia), (Medicine Academy)
- 1892
- 1893
- January: riots
- El Artesano newspaper begins publication
- 1895
- Municipal Theatre inaugurated
- Population: 95,813
- 1896 - The glass factory Fenicia established
- 1898
- Hipodromo de la Gran Sabana (racecourse) inaugurated
- Revista Ilustrada begins publication
- 1900 - 31 July: Coup
20th century
- 1902
- Academia Colombiana de Historia (history academy) founded
- The Edificio de Lievano (city hall) set
- 1905 - Population: 100.000
- 1908 - Palacio de Nariño dedicated
- 1909
- Compañia de Cementos Samper (cement company) established
- Electric streetcar begins operating
- 1910
- Exposición del Centenario de la independencia (world's fair) held
- Javier Tobar Ahumada becomes mayor
- 1911
- First airplane lands in Bogotá for an exhibition
- El Tiempo newspaper begins publication
- 1912
- Population: 121,257
- Carlos Eduardo Padilla builds an airplane and flies over Chapinero[11]
- 1915 - El Espectador newspaper begins publication in Bogota
- 1918
- Population: 143.994
- Flu epidemic
- 1921 - First student strike
- 1922 - Quinta de Bolívar museum inaugurated
- 1923 - Police headquarters building constructed
- 1926 - Capitolio Nacional built
- 1928
- 1929 - Medellín-Bogota railway begins operating[12]
- 1930
- (aerodrome) is built[11]
- The Voz de la Victor (radio) founded
- 1931 - Santamaría Bullring constructed
- 1933 - First Juegos Atléticos Nacionales takes place
- 1936 - El Siglo newspaper begins publication
- 1937 - University City (campus) of National University of Colombia built
- 1938
- 1939 - Gold Museum established
- 1941 - Corporación Deportiva Santa Fe (football club) formed
- 1946 - Millonarios Fútbol Club formed[13]
- 1947 - Architect Le Corbusier is hired to conduct the city planning
- 1948
- 1951 - Population: 648,324.[14]
- 1952 - City flag design adopted
- 1953 - Bogotá Museum of Modern Art inaugurated
- 1954
- Bosa, Engativa, Fontibon, Suba, Usme, and Usaquen townships become part of city
- First television transmission is made
- Colombian Film Archive founded[15]
- La Republica newspaper begins publication
- Mass migration from other regions in Colombia to Bogotá, due to violence since the Bogotazo
- Corferias (Fair and Exposition Corporation of Bogotá) founded
- 1955 - Bogotá Botanical Garden opens[16]
- 1956 - University of America founded
- 1958
- 1959
- 1960 - Population: 1,271,700
- 1961 - John F. Kennedy visits Bogotá
- 1963 - Puente Aranda becomes part of the city
- 1964
- 1965 - El Espacio newspaper begins publication
- 1967 - Bogotá Philharmonic founded
- 1968
- 1969 - Avianca Building constructed
- 1970 - Catholic University of Colombia founded
- 1973 - Population: 2,855,065.[19]
- 1974 - Ciclovía inaugurated[20]
- 1976 - First shopping center in the city, Unicentro (Bogotá) opens
- 1977 - Centro de Comercio Internacional built
- 1978 - Torre Colpatria built
- 1979
- 93 Park inaugurated.
- Leftist guerrilla M-19 takes the embassy of Dominican Republic
- 1982 - Military University Nueva Granada established
- 1984
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987 - Housing complex Ciudad Salitre construction begins
- 1988
- 1989
1990s
- 1990 - La Equidad football club formed
- 1991 - Juan Martín Caicedo Ferrer becomes mayor
- 1992 - Sonia Durán de Infante becomes mayor, succeeded by Jaime Castro Castro
- 1993
- Population: 5'484.244
- November: Bombing on 15th Avenue
- 1995
- 1996
- 1998
- 1999
- 2000
21st century
2000s
- 2001
- 2002
- 25 January: Bombing
- 7 August: Attack at Presidential Palace
- 13 December: Hotel bombing
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
2010s
See also
Other cities in Colombia:
References
This article incorporates information from the Spanish language Wikipedia
Bibliography
in English
- Published in the 19th century
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- Book: Commercial Directory of the American Republics . 1897 . Washington DC . City of Santa Fe de Bogotá . https://books.google.com/books?id=N3cyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA535 .
- Published in the 20th century
- Bogotá . 4 . Lamoureux . Andrew Jackson . 120 - 121 . 1910 . . 1.
- Book: Colombia . South American Handbooks . D. Appleton & Co. . New York . 1914 . V. Levine .
- Santa Fe de Bogotá . Alfred Coester . Hispania . 21 . 3 . 191–196 . 1938 . 10.2307/332672. . 332672 .
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- The 1893 Bogotazo: Artisans and Public Violence in Late Nineteenth-Century Bogota . David Sowell . Journal of Latin American Studies . 21 . 1989. .
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- Published in the 21st century
- Web site: Bogota . Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003 . United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London . 2003.
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- Public Spaces in Bogotá: An Introduction . Nancy Rhinehart . University of Miami Inter-American Law Review . 40 . 2009. .
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in Spanish
- Book: La imprenta en Bogotá (1739-1821) . José Toribio Medina . 1904 . Santiago de Chile . Imprenta Elzeviriana . es . HathiTrust . José Toribio Medina . (Annotated list of titles published in Bogotá, arranged chronologically)
- Book: Los años del cambio: historia urbana de Bogotá, 1820-1910 . Germán Rodrigo Mejía Pavony . Pontificia Universidad Javeriana . es . 2000 . 2nd .
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External links
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- Web site: Bogotá (Colombia) Newspapers . USA . WorldCat . . 10 March 2013.
- From Colombian national song to Colombian song: 1860-1960 . Egberto Bermúdez . Lied und Populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture . 53 . 2008 .
- 'La teoria i la realidad': The Democratic Society of Artisans of Bogota, 1847-1854 . David Sowell . Hispanic American Historical Review . 67 . 1987 .
- Book: Mitchel P. Roth . Prisons and Prison Systems: A Global Encyclopedia. 2006. Greenwood . 978-0-313-32856-5 . Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=RTH31DgbTzgC&pg=PR31 .
- Web site: Hemeroteca Digital Histórica . Historical Digital Newspaper Library . Bogota . es . . 10 March 2013.
- Web site: Bogota . Colombia . . 10 March 2013.
- Web site: Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art . . International Center for the Arts of the Americas . February 28, 2015 .
- http://www.periodicomio.obolog.es/historia-aeropuerto-techo-periodico-997932 Historia Techo
- The Genteel Tradition of Nineteenth Century Colombian Culture . Jonathan C. Brown . The Americas . 36 . 1980 . Academy of American Franciscan History .
- Book: Tom Dunmore. Historical Dictionary of Soccer . 2011. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-7188-5.
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- The Organization of the Royal Public Library of Santa Fe De Bogota . Terence S. Tarr . Journal of Library History . 5 . 1970 .
- Web site: Multiplex Embajador, un teatro que conserva su uso de origen desde 1969 LAUD 90.4. laud.udistrital.edu.co. 2019-01-02.
- Book: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1970_round.htm . Demographic Yearbook 1975 . 1976 . United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office . New York . Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . 253–279 .
- Web site: Bogotá's Ciclovia could teach Boris Johnson how to run a car-free capital . 16 June 2010 . The Guardian . UK . 10 March 2013.
- Web site: Historia . Festival de Cine de Bogota . es . 10 March 2013.
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