Timeline of Bogotá
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bogotá, Colombia.
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16th century
17th century
- 1604 - Jesuit college established.
- 1616 - Population: 3,000.
- 1621
- Mint established.
- Church of San Francisco built.[4]
- 1635 - Iglesia de San Ignacio (church) opens.[4]
- 1653 - Our Lady of the Rosary University founded.
- 1674 - Santa Clara church built.[4]
- 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.[5]
- 1781 - The rebelion 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.[3]
- 1785 - Earthquake.[4]
- 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.[6]
19th century
Map of Bogotá, 1810
- 1801 - Population: 21,394.
- 1803 - Observatorio Astronómico constructed.
- 1810 - City becomes capital of the Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca.
- 1816
- 1819
- Santafé de Bogotá is renamed as Bogotá.
- Population: 30,000.
- 1823 - Primary Cathedral built.
- 1824 - Colombian National Museum opens.
- 1836 - Central Cemetery of Bogotá established.
- 1840
- Trolleybus starts operating.
- El dia newspaper begins publication.[8]
- 1846
- Sociedad Filarmonica founded.[9]
- 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.[11]
- 1864 - Medicine & Natural Sciences Society founded.
- 1865 - Telegraph begins operating.[12]
- 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.[13]
- 1881 - Papel Periódico Ilustrado begins publication.[14]
- 1884
- Compañía Colombiana de Teléfonos (telephone company) established.
- Tramway begins operating.[4]
- 1886 - Universidad Externado de Colombia and Escuela de Bellas Artes (school)[15] founded.
- 1887 - The aqueduct is upgraded to an iron aqueduct pipe.
- 1889
- Facatativá-Bogota railway begins operating.
- Bogotá Electric Light Company is founded.
- 1890 - Bavaria brewery in business.[16]
- 1891 - The Medicine & Sciences Society is renamed as Academia de Medicina (Colombia), (Medicine Academy).
- 1892
- 1893
- January: Riot.
- 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.
20th century
- 1900 - 31 July: Coup.
- 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 flights over Chapinero. [18]
- 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.[4]
- 1926 - Capitolio Nacional built.
- 1928
- 1929 - Medellín-Bogota railway begins operating.[12]
- 1930
- Aerodromo del Techo (aerodrome) is built. [19]
- 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.[22]
- 1947 - Architecht Le Corbusier is hired to conduct the city planning.
- 1948
- 1951 - Population: 715.250
- 1952 - City flag design adopted.[3]
- 1953 - Bogotá Museum of Modern Art inaugurated.
- 1954
- Bosa, Engativa, Fontibon, Suba, Usme, and Usaquen townships become part of city.
- First television transmmission is made.
- Colombian Film Archive founded.[24]
- La Republica newspaper begins publication.[6]
- 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.[25]
- 1956 - University of America founded.
- 1958
- 1959
- 1960 - Population: 1,271,700.
- 1961 - John F. Kennedy visits Bogotá.
- 1963 - Puente Aranda becomes part of city.
- 1964
- 1965 - El Espacio newspaper begins publication.[6]
- 1967 - Bogotá Philharmonic founded.
- 1968
- 1969 - Avianca Building constructed.
- 1970
- 1974 - Ciclovía begins.[27]
- 1976 - First shopping center in the city, Unicentro (Bogotá) opens.
- 1977 - Centro de Comercio Internacional built.
- 1978 - Torre Colpatria built.
- 1979 - 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
21st century
2000s
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002
- 25 January: Bombing.
- 7 August: Attack at Presidential Palace.
- 13 December: Hotel bombing.
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2008
- 2009 - Fundación Capital headquartered in city.[32]
2010s
See also
- Other cities in Colombia
References
- 1 2 3 4 "About Bogota". Bogota: District Institute of Tourism. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Bogota". Colombia. Lonely Planet. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- ↑ Edwin S. Gleaves; Uriel Lozano Rivera (1994). "Colombia". In Wayne A. Wiegand and Donald G. Davis, Jr. Encyclopedia of Library History.
- 1 2 3 "Bogota D.C." (in Spanish). Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- ↑ "Bogotá (Colombia) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- ↑ Egberto Bermúdez (2008). "From Colombian national song to Colombian song: 1860-1960". Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture 53.
- ↑ David Sowell (1987). "'La teoria i la realidad': The Democratic Society of Artisans of Bogota, 1847-1854". Hispanic American Historical Review 67.
- 1 2 Jonathan C. Brown (1980). "The Genteel Tradition of Nineteenth Century Colombian Culture". The Americas (Academy of American Franciscan History) 36.
- ↑ Mitchel P. Roth (2006). "Chronology". Prisons and Prison Systems: A Global Encyclopedia. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-32856-5.
- ↑ "Hemeroteca Digital Histórica" [Historical Digital Newspaper Library] (in Spanish). Bogota: Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango del Banco de la República. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- ↑ International Center for the Arts of the Americas. "Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Retrieved February 2015.
- ↑ Phanor James Eder (1913), Colombia, London: T.F. Unwin, OCLC 1719625
- ↑ http://wwwperiodicomio.obolog.es/historia-aeropuerto-techo-periodico-997932
- ↑ http://wwwperiodicomio.obolog.es/historia-aeropuerto-techo-periodico-997932
- ↑ Tom Dunmore (2011). Historical Dictionary of Soccer. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7188-5.
- ↑ "Bogota", Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 140, OL 5812502M
- ↑ "Historia de la Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano" (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- ↑ "Garden Search: Colombia". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved December 2015.
- ↑ Terence S. Tarr (1970). "The Organization of the Royal Public Library of Santa Fe De Bogota". Journal of Library History 5.
- ↑ "Bogotá's Ciclovia could teach Boris Johnson how to run a car-free capital". The Guardian. UK. 16 June 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- ↑ "Historia" (in Spanish). Festival de Cine de Bogota. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- ↑ "History". Copa America 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- ↑ "Colombia". Art Spaces Directory. New York: New Museum. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ↑ "Organizations in Bogota D.C., Colombia". USA: Idealist.org. Retrieved May 2015.
- ↑ "Colombian mayors and local government". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
- ↑ "Mayor Ousted in Colombia After Claims of Bungling", New York Times, 9 December 2013
- ↑ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2014. United Nations Statistics Division.
This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.
Bibliography
in English
- Published in the 19th century
- Abraham Rees (1819), "Bogota", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
- Gaspard Théodore Mollien (1824), "(Santa-Fe de Bogotá)", Travels in the Republic of Colombia, London: C. Knight, OCLC 4373721
- William Duane (1826), "(Bogotá)", A Visit to Colombia, in the Years 1822 & 1823, Philadelphia: T. H. Palmer
- Josiah Conder (1830), "Bogotá", The Modern Traveller, London: J.Duncan
- John Steuart (1838). Bogotá in 1836-7: Being a Narrative of an Expedition to the Capital of New Granada. New York: Harper & Brothers.
- Isaac F. Holton (1857), "Bogota", New Granada: Twenty Months in the Andes, New York: Harper & Brothers, OCLC 2422862
- George Henry Townsend (1867), "Santa Fe de Bogota", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
- Erastus Wilson (1878), "Santa Fe de Bogota", A Ramble in New Granada, New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., OCLC 15516568
- Rosa Carnegie Williams (1881), A Year in the Andes; or, A Lady's Adventures in Bogotá, London: London Literary Society, OCLC 1720050
- "Santa Fe de Bogotá". Harper's New Monthly Magazine. 1885.
- "Bogotá". Commercial Directory of Latin America. Washington DC: Bureau of the American Republics. 1892.
- "City of Santa Fe de Bogotá". Commercial Directory of the American Republics. Washington DC. 1897.
- Published in the 20th century
- "Bogota", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901
- "Bogota", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- V. Levine (1914). Colombia. South American Handbooks. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
- William Alfred Hirst (1915), "Bogotá", Guide to South America, New York: Macmillan Company
- Alfred Coester (1938). "Santa Fe de Bogotá". Hispania 21. doi:10.2307/332672.
- John T. Reid (1939). "Cultural Bogotá". World Affairs 102.
- David Sowell (1989). "The 1893 Bogotazo: Artisans and Public Violence in Late Nineteenth-Century Bogota". Journal of Latin American Studies 21.
- Geoff Crowther; et al. (1990), "Bogota", South America (4th ed.), Lonely Planet, p. 461+, OL 8314412M
- David Sowell (1993). "La Caja de Ahorros de Bogotá, 1846-1865: Artisans, Credit, Development, and Savings in Early National Colombia". Hispanic American Historical Review 73.
- Rakesh Mohan (1994), Understanding the Developing Metropolis: Lessons from the City Study of Bogotá and Cali, Colombia (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press / World Bank, ISBN 9780195208825
- Published in the 21st century
- "Bogota". Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003. United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London. 2003.
- David Marley (2005), "Bogota", Historic Cities of the Americas, Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 1576070271
- Politics and Security in Three Colombian Cities, London: Crisis States Research Centre, 2009 – via International Relations and Security Network (about Bogota, Cali, Medellin)
- Nancy Rhinehart (2009). "Public Spaces in Bogotá: An Introduction". University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 40.
- Zeiderman, A., 2013. 'Living Dangerously: Biopolitics and urban citizenship in Bogotá, Colombia', American Ethnologist 40(1):71-87.
in Spanish
- Charles Wiener (1884), "Bogotá", América pintoresca (in Spanish), Barcelona: Montaner y Simon
- Pedro M. Ibáñez (1891), Las crónicas de Bogotá y de sus inmediaciones (in Spanish), Bogotá: Impr. de la Luz, OCLC 2205470
- Germán Rodrigo Mejía Pavony (2000). Los años del cambio: historia urbana de Bogotá, 1820-1910 (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
- Natalia León Soler (2008), "Bogotá: de paso por la capital", Revista Credencial Historia (in Spanish) (224) (includes timeline)
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