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All of the internal conflicts in Colombia affected the people and records. Churches and records have been destroyed, and population displacement occurred. Preservation of documents in a national archives has only began since 1991, as government attention and resources are and were absorbed by the conflicts. | All of the internal conflicts in Colombia affected the people and records. Churches and records have been destroyed, and population displacement occurred. Preservation of documents in a national archives has only began since 1991, as government attention and resources are and were absorbed by the conflicts. | ||
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===Timeline=== | ===Timeline=== | ||
1542 - The region of New Granada, along with all other Spanish possessions in South America, became part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, with its capital at Lima<br> | |||
1717 - The Viceroyalty of New Granada was originally created, and then it was temporarily removed, to finally be reestablished in 1739. This Viceroyalty included some other provinces of northwestern South America which had previously been under the jurisdiction of the Viceroyalties of New Spain or Peru and correspond mainly to today's Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama<br> | |||
1810 - The Colombian Declaration of Independence from Spain<br> | |||
1819 - 1822 Simón Bolívar, proclaimed independence in 1819 and the pro-Spanish resistance was defeated in 1822 in the present territory of Colombia<br> | |||
1821 - 1830 The territory of the Viceroyalty of New Granada became the Republic of Colombia, organized as a union of the current territories of Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela, parts of Guyana and Brazil and north of Marañón Riverbut the new republic was unstable and three countries emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830. They were New Granada, Ecuador and Venezuela<br> | |||
1830 - 1858 Internal political and territorial divisions led to the dissolution of Gran Colombia and renamed it New Granada<br> | |||
1863 - After a two-year civil war the United States of Colombia was created<br> | |||
1886 - The country became known as the Republic of Colombia<br> | |||
1899 - 1902 Internal divisions remained between the bipartisan political forces, occasionally igniting very bloody civil wars<br> | |||
1948 - Following the assassination of the Liberal presidential candidate the ensuing riots in Bogotá, known as El Bogotazo, spread throughout the country and claimed the lives of at least 180,000 Colombians<br> | |||
1950- Colombia entered the Korean War and was the only Latin American country to join the war in a direct military role as an ally of the United States<br> | |||
==Online Histories== | ==Online Histories== | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia#History English wiki entry on Colombia's history] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia#History English wiki entry on Colombia's history] | ||