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1500 BC: Appearance of first great civilisations: San Agustin, Muisca, Tairona, Sinu.
1533: Pedro de Herredia founded Calamari, the current Cartagena. 1538 : Foundation of Santa Fé de Bogota.
1539: Revolt by Indians led by Tundama, and defeat at the Battle of the "Pantanos de la Guerra".
1811: 11th November, the province of Cartagena proclaimed its independence.
1819: Victory of Santander and Bolivar, creation of Great Colombia (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador).
1830: Ecuador and Venezuela separated from Great Colombia.
1886: Creation of the Republic of Colombia; Rafael Nunez became President.
1904: The country slided toward dictatorship.
1970: Strike by students, bloody repression by army, beginning of drug trafficking, intensification of guerrilla movements.
1983: Popayan was devastated by an earthquake.
1985: Eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz; Armero destroyed: 25,000 dead.
1994: Election of Samper, liberal, accused of having benefited from the support of drug traffickers to finance his presidential campaign.
1998: Election of the Conservative Andres Pastrana to the presidency of the Republic.
2002: End of the peace process begun in 1999 with the FARC guerrillas. On 24 February, Ingrid Betancourt, an ecologist candidate for the Presidential elections, was kidnapped by the FARC. Alvaro Uribe was elected President of the Republic.