The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bogotá , Colombia .
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
Map of Santafé, by cacique Turmequé 1572
Map of Bogotá and surrounding valleys1650
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
Panoramic view of Bogotá1772
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 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[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]
Map of Bogotá1810
Map of Bogotá1857
Map of Bogotá1890
Overview of Bogotá1893
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[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
1890 - Bavaria brewery in business[16]
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
Plaza Bolívar1900
Statue of Christopher Columbus , inaugurated in 19061920s
Central train station1930
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 [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[ citation needed ]
1923 - Police headquarters building constructed[4]
1926 - Capitolio Nacional built
1928
1929 - Medellín -Bogota railway begins operating[12]
1930
Aerodromo del Techo [ es ] (aerodrome) is built[18]
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[21]
1947 - Architect Le Corbusier is hired to conduct the city planning
1948
1951 - Population: 648,324.[23]
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 transmission 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 the city
1964
1965 - El Espacio newspaper begins publication[6]
1967 - Bogotá Philharmonic founded
1968
1969 - Avianca Building constructed
1970 - Catholic University of Colombia founded
1973 - Population: 2,855,065.[28]
1974 - Ciclovía inaugurated[29]
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
Other cities in Colombia:
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David Sowell (1987). " 'La teoria i la realidad': The Democratic Society of Artisans of Bogota, 1847-1854". Hispanic American Historical Review . 67 .
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"Historia" (in Spanish). Festival de Cine de Bogota. Retrieved 10 March 2013 ."History" . Copa America 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2013 . This article incorporates information from the Spanish language Wikipedia
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, OL 7025017M
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.{{cite book }}
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Published in the 20th century
"Bogota" , Chambers's Encyclopaedia , London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901
Lamoureux, Andrew Jackson (1910). "Bogotá" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 4 (11th ed.). pp. 120–121.
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 (3): 191–196. doi :10.2307/332672 . JSTOR 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
José Toribio Medina (1904). La imprenta en Bogotá (1739-1821) (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Elzeviriana – via HathiTrust. (Annotated list of titles published in Bogotá, arranged chronologically)
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), no. 224 (includes timeline)