Timeline of Bogotá (Redirected from Timeline of Bogotá history)

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bogotá, Colombia.

Prehistory

The flat Bogotá savanna is clearly visible in the topography of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense. The flatlands are the fertile bottom of a Pleistocene lake that existed until around 30,000 years BP. The last zipa of the Muisca, ruling over the Bogotá savanna, was Tisquesusa, who was killed by one of the soldiers of the conquest expedition, opening up the reign of the Spanish over the terrain and the foundation of Bogotá

Pre-conquest

16th century

Map of Santafé, by cacique Turmequé
1572

17th century

Map of Bogotá and surrounding valleys
1650
  • 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

Panoramic view of Bogotá
1772
  • 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
  • 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

19th century

Map of Bogotá
1810
Map of Bogotá
1857
Map of Bogotá
1890
Overview of Bogotá
1893
  • 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
  • 1846
    • Sociedad Filarmonica founded
    • 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
  • 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.
  • 1881 - Papel Periódico Ilustrado begins publication
  • 1884
    • Compañía Colombiana de Teléfonos (telephone company) established
    • Tramway begins operating
  • 1886 - Universidad Externado de Colombia and Escuela de Bellas Artes (school) 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

Plaza Bolívar
1900
Statue of Christopher Columbus, inaugurated in 1906
1920s
Central train station
1930

1990s

21st century

View from Torre Colpatria
2006
Panoramic view of Bogotá
2016
BD Bacatá
August 29, 2016

2000s

2010s

The Headquarters of Caracol Radio after the terrorist attack


See also

Other cities in Colombia:

Coordinates: 4°35′53″N 74°04′33″W / 4.598056°N 74.075833°W / 4.598056; -74.075833


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