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Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district and no longer belongs administratively to that department...

Timeline of Events

1538

8.6.1538

Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.

1539

4.27.1539

Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.

1810

7.20.1810

Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.

1948

4.9.1948

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the ''Bogotazo''), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as ''La violencia''.

4.30.1948

In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.

1968

8.22.1968

Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.

1985

11.6.1985

In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.

1989

8.18.1989

Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.