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Timeline of Colombian history

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This is a timeline of Colombian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Colombia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Colombia. See also the list of presidents of Colombia.

Millennia: 11th BC–9th BC · 3rd BC · 2nd BC–1st BC · 1st–2nd · 3rd Centuries: 20th BC · 19th BC · 18th BC · 17th BC · 16th BC · 15th BC · 14th BC · 13th BC · 12th BC · 11th BC · 10th BC · 9th BC · 8th BC · 7th BC · 6th BC · 5th BC · 4th BC · 3rd BC · 2nd BC · 1st BC

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Year	Date	Event
3000 BC		Inhabitants change to a semi-sedentary life. First crops of Cassava on the Caribbean coast and Maize in the Altiplano Cundiboyacense are grown.^[3] Archaeological sites in Puerto Hormiga (Bolívar, Colombia) show human activity.
2700 BC		Inhabitants develop agriculture in the Amazon.

Year	Date	Event
1600 BC		Building of El morro del tulcán Pyramid
1590 BC		In Valle del Cauca in the Calima River, the Ilama culture develops.

Year	Date	Event
1300 BC		Chimitá petroglyphs in Santander Department
1270 BC		Zipacón pottery

Year	Date	Event
700 BC		Cave paintings near Inirida river, Vichada department
700 BC		Quimbaya civilization formative stage
		Building of El Infiernito menhirs

Year	Date	Event
300 BC		Malagana period
		Guayabero Cave paintings in Guaviare
		First type of Colombian cheese was made by ancient civilization and is sold at 55 cents a pound

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Timeline of Colombian history

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Year	Date	Event
600		Classic Quimbaya civilization. Poporo Quimbaya
600		Tierradentro culture

Year	Date	Event
~1450		Meicuchuca becomes zipa of Bacatá (to 1470)
~1450		Hunzahúa becomes zaque of Hunza (to 1470)
1470		Saguamanchica becomes zipa of Bacatá (to 1490)
1470		Michuá becomes zaque of Hunza (to 1490)
1490		Battle of Chocontá
		Nemequene becomes zipa of Bacatá (to 1514)
		Quemuenchatocha becomes zaque of Hunza (to 1537)
1492		Inca Empire invades southwest Colombia
1498		Spanish explorer Juan de la Cosa lands on what is today called Cabo de la Vela (Cape of Sails) in the Guajira Peninsula
1500		Rodrigo de Bastidas lands on the Colombian Caribbean coast

Year	Date	Event
1502	2 May	Alonso de Ojeda arrives at Bahía Honda and founded the village of Santa Cruz, first city in Colombia
1508		Diego de Enciso and Vasco Núñez de Balboa founded the village of Santa María la Antigua del Darién, initially called The Antigua
1509		Ojeda founded the village of San Sebastián de Urabá
1509		Indigenous princess India Catalina is abducted by Spanish conqueror Diego de Nicuesa from a Calamari indigenous settlement
1510		Spanish conquerors discover San Andres y Providencia islands
1513	25 September	Núñez de Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean
1514	12 April	The Pedrarias Dávila expedition began
1514		Tisquesusa becomes zipa of Bacatá (till 1537)
1518	2 December	Vasco Núñez de Balboa is executed by orders of Pedrarias Dávila
1525	29 July	Rodrigo de Bastidas founded the village of Santa Marta
1530	3 May	Foundation of Santa Cruz de Mompox by Alonso de Heredia
1533	20 January	Pedro de Heredia founded the village of Cartagena de Indias
1536	6 April	The strenuous Spanish conquest expedition starts from Santa Marta^[4]
1536	25 July	Sebastián de Belalcázar founded the village of Santiago de Cali
1537		Foundation of St. Juan de Pasto by Lorenzo de Aldana
	March	Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada with his troops reach the Muisca Confederation^[4]
	20 April	zipa Tisquesusa is beaten in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca at Funza^[5]
		Sagipa becomes the last zipa of Bacatá^[6]
	25 July	Francisco César discovers the territory of Antioquia
	20 August	zaque Quemuenchatocha is beaten in Hunza^[7]
		Aquiminzaque becomes the last zaque of Hunza^[8]
	September	The Sun Temple in Sogamoso (name in Muysccubun: Sugamuxi) was burned by Spanish soldiers^[9]
1538	6 August	Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada founded the city of Santa fe de Bogotá *some historians argue that the date of foundation was on 27 April 1539
1538	20 August	The Panche are beaten by an alliance of zipa Sagipa and Spanish conquistadors in the Battle of Tocarema^[10]
1539		Cacica Gaitana starts the Paezan revolt against the Spanish conquest
		Foundation of Neiva by Juan de Cabrera
		Foundation of Honda, Tolima by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
	6 August	Gonzalo Suárez Rendón founded the city of Tunja
1540	27 July	King Carlos V appointed Santa Fe de Bogotá the title of city
1541	24 August	Jerónimo Luis Tejelo discovers the Aburrá Valley
1542		Francisco de Orellana sails the length of the Amazon River
1545		Foundation of Riohacha by Nikolaus Federmann
1549	17 July	Emperor Carlos V, created the Royal Audiencia of Santa Fe, subdivided into districts including the "New Kingdom Provinces": Santa Marta, Río de San Juan, Popayán, bordering with Quito, Guayana o Dorado and Cartagena de Indias. Pamplona was founded.
1550	6 January	Hernando de Santana founded the village of Valle de Upar
1550		Foundation of Ibagué by Andres Lopez de Galarza
1556	7 April	The Real Audiencia de Santafé is officially installed
1572		Foundation of Villa de Leyva by Hernan Suarez de Villalobos
1580	7 December	First historical recorded eruption of Galeras volcano
1588	4 November	Cartagena de Indias is affected by a hurricane.^[11] (to 6 November)
1596		English corsair Francis Drake attacks Riohacha
1600	19 February	Huaynaputina volcano in Peru erupted catastrophically, in the largest volcanic explosion in South America in historic times causing a volcanic winter, with deadly effects reaching as far as Russia

Year	Date	Event
1610	5 February	the Catholic Monarchs established from Spain the Spanish Inquisition Holy Office Court in Cartagena de Indias
1629		Foundation of Barranca de San Nicolas (Later Barranquilla ) by Galapa indigenous people
1631		Foundation of Girón, Santander by Francisco Mantilla de los Rios
1650		Approximated date of painting of the Sopo Archangels
1675		Foundation of Medellín by Francisco Herrera Campuzano

Year	Date	Event
1711	6 August	Death of painter Gregorio Vasquez de Arce y Ceballos
1717		The Viceroyalty of New Granada is originally created, and then it was temporarily removed, to finally be reestablished in 1739
1719	13 June	Antonio Ignacio de la Pedrosa y Guerrero is Viceroy of New Granada
1724	11 May	Jorge de Villalonga is Viceroy of New Granada
1740	24 April	Sebastián de Eslava is Viceroy of New Granada
1740		Revolt of the Comuneros (New Granada)
1749	24 September	José Alfonso Pizarro is Viceroy of New Granada
1753	24 November	José Solís Folch de Cardona is Viceroy of New Granada
1756		The viceroyalty of New Granada is allowed to fabricate its own coins. The House of Coins "Casa de la Moneda" is built
1761		Pedro Messía de la Cerda is Viceroy of New Granada
1772		Manuel de Guirior is Viceroy of New Granada
1773		Foundation of San Jose de Cúcuta by Juana Rangel de Cuellar
1776	26 November	Manuel Antonio Flores is Viceroy of New Granada
1780		Manuela Beltrán organized a peasant revolt against excessive taxation
1782	1 April	Juan de Torrezar Díaz Pimienta is Viceroy of New Granada
1782		Antonio Caballero y Góngora is Viceroy of New Granada
1783		José Celestino Mutis leads the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada.
1786		Death of indigenous leader Cacique Calarcá in combats against the Spanish forces in Peñas Blancas
1788		Francisco Gil de Taboada y Lemos is Viceroy of New Granada
1789		José Manuel de Ezpeleta is Viceroy of New Granada
1797	2 January	Pedro Mendinueta y Múzquiz is Viceroy of New Granada
1799		Research expedition of Alexander von Humboldt exploring the courses of the Orinoco River and Magdalena River

Year	Date	Event
1803		San Andres y Providencia islands are annexed to the Viceroyalty of New Granada
1810	20 July	Cry of Independence, also known as the Florero de Llorente (Llorente Flower Vase) incident (Colombian Independence Day)
	25 July	José Miguel Pey de Andrade is President of the Supreme Governing Junta
	17 September	The president of the Supreme Board of Cartagena, José María García Toledo, created the Colombian Navy
1811		Antonio Nariño publishes the first Newspaper in Colombia, "La Bagatela"
	1 April	Jorge Tadeo Lozano is declared President of Cundinamarca and Vicegerent of the King's Person
	1 April	Antonio Nariño is declared President of Cundinamarca and Vicegerent of the King's Person
	11 November	Cartagena de Indias declared its complete independence from Spain
1812	1 April	Manuel Rodríguez Torices is President of the State of Cartagena de Indias
1812	19 August	Manuel Benito de Castro is declared President of Cundinamarca and Vicegerent of the King's Person
1814	14 May	Manuel de Bernardo Álvarez del Casal is declared President of Cundinamarca and Vicegerent of the King's Person
1814	5 October	José Luis Álvaro Alvino Fernández Madrid, is president of the United Provinces of the New Granada.
1815	21 January	Custodio García Rovira is president of the United Provinces of the New Granada. he was executed 1 month later by Pablo Morillo.
	28 March	José Miguel Pey de Andrade is President of the United Provinces of the New Granada
	17 August	Antonio Villavicencio is President of the United Provinces of the New Granada
	15 November	Camilo Torres Tenorio is President of the United Provinces of the New Granada
1816	22 June	Liborio Mejía is president of the United Provinces of the New Granada^[12] making him the youngest person to ever hold the presidency of Colombia at the age of 24. He was executed three months later during the Reconquest led by the Spaniard Pablo Morillo.
	16 July	Manuel Fernando Serrano Uribe is the last president of the United Provinces of the New Granada before its dissolution and complete Reconquest.
	28 October	Execution of Francisco José de Caldas
1817	14 November	Execution of Policarpa Salavarrieta
1818	25 September	Doña Manuela Sáenz de Thorne saves Simón Bolívar from an attempted assassination
1819	5 February	The Congress of Angostura
	25 July	Battle of Vargas Swamp
	7 August	Battle of Boyacá
	11 October	For order of Francisco de Paula Santander, Spanish colonel Jose Maria Barreiro and 38 Spanish officers were executed in Bogotá.
1821	30 August	Congress of Cúcuta and Constitution of Cúcuta
1828	27 August	After the failure of the constitutional convention of Ocaña Simón Bolívar proclaimed himself dictator, through the "Organic Decree of Dictatorship".
1830		The Federation of Gran Colombia is dissolved
	15 September	Rafael José de Urdaneta y Faría is Provisional Chief of the Government of the Republic of Gran Colombia
	17 December	Simón Bolívar dies in Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino near Santa Marta
1831	2 May	Joaquín Mariano Mosquera y Arboleda is President of the Republic of New Granada
1832	10 March	José Ignacio de Márquez is President of the Republic of New Granada
	7 October	Francisco de Paula Santander is President of the Republic of New Granada
	7 October	Coat of arms of Colombia is officially adopted
1835		Start the Colombian coffee industry with the first commercial crops in Norte de Santander
1837		Colombian peso replaces Colombian real as official currency
1839		The War of the Supremes (Spanish: Guerra de los Supremos, also called the Guerra de los Conventos) extended from 1839 to 1841, caused by the ambitions of various regional leaders (gamonales) to seize power and depose President José Ignacio de Márquez
1840		Foundation of Villavicencio by Esteban Aguirre
1841	1 April	Pedro Alcántara Herrán is President of the Republic of New Granada
1845	1 April	Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera is President of the Republic of New Granada
1849		Foundation of Manizales by Antioquian colonists
1849	1 April	José Hilario López is President of the Republic of New Granada
1851	14 October	José de Obaldía is President of the Republic of New Granada
1853	1 April	José María Obando is President of the Republic of New Granada
1853	1 April	Manuel María Mallarino is President of the Republic of New Granada
1854	17 April	José María Melo is President of the Republic of New Granada
1856	11 June	Creation of the Sovereign State of Antioquía
1857	15 June	The Law of 15 June 1857, created the other states that would go on to form the Granadine Confederation: The Sovereign State of Bolívar, The Sovereign State of Santander, The Sovereign State of Cauca, and The Sovereign State of Magdalena
1858		The Granadine Confederation is created.
1858	22 May	Mariano Ospina Rodríguez is president of the Granadine Confederation
1860	8 May	Newly appointed Supreme Director of War Tomas Cipriano de Mosquera declared the Sovereign State of Cauca a separate nation from the Granadine Confederation and Colombian Civil War (1860–1862) broke out
1861	1 April	Bartolomé Calvo is President of the Granadine Confederation
1861	18 July	Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera is President of the Granadine Confederation
1863		Foundation of Pereira, Colombia by Remigio Antonio Cañarte
		The name of the Republic is changed officially to "United States of Colombia" through the Rionegro Constitution
	14 May	Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera is the first President of the United States of Colombia
	26 November	The Flag of Colombia is officially adopted
1864	8 April	Manuel Murillo Toro is President of the United States of Colombia
1865		Kola Román, a popular Colombian soft drink is introduced by Carlos Roman
1866	1 April	José María Rojas Garrido is President of the United States of Colombia
1866	22 May	Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera is President of the United States of Colombia for second time
1867		Foundation of Leticia, Colombia by Benigno Bustamante
	12 May	Joaquín Riascos is President of the United States of Colombia
	23 May	Manuel María de los Santos Acosta is President of the United States of Colombia
1868	1 April	Santos Gutiérrez is President of the United States of Colombia
1870	1 April	Eustorgio Salgar is President of the United States of Colombia
1872	1 April	Manuel Murillo Toro is President of the United States of Colombia for second time
1874		Santiago Pérez de Manosalbas is President of the United States of Colombia
1876	1 April	Aquileo Parra is President of the United States of Colombia
1878	1 April	Julián Trujillo Largacha is President of the United States of Colombia
1880	8 April	Rafael Nuñez is President of the United States of Colombia
1882	1 April	Francisco Javier Zaldúa served as President of the Rionegro Convention, a constituent assembly that created the United States of Colombia (now Colombia). As President of this legislative body, Zaldúa became the de facto President of the United States of Colombia for 6 days, when President Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera ceded executive power to the convention, and until the said convention elected a Council of Ministers to serve collectively as the Colombian head of state.
1882	22 December	José Eusebio Otalora is President of the United States of Colombia, in his capacity as the Second Presidential Designate following the death of President Francisco Javier Zaldúa, and the non-acceptance of the office by the First Designate Rafael Núñez.
1884	1 April	Ezequiel Hurtado is President of the United States of Colombia
	11 August	Rafael Nuñez is President of the United States of Colombia for second time
	28 August	ETB (company) is created, being the first telecommunications company in Colombia
1886		President Rafael Nuñez creates the Colombian Constitution of 1886, which has been one of the longest lasting constitutions in the western hemisphere, and with the Reforms of 1910, 1936, 1958, 1968, 1973 and 1986 was the constitution of Colombia until 1991. The country adopts its present name: "Republic of Colombia"
1886	1 April	on 30 March 1886, president Núñez presented his resignation to Congress due to his poor health condition caused by dysentery. José María Campo Serrano is sworn in as Acting President, becoming the first President of Colombian Republic
1887	7 January	Eliseo Payán is the 2nd president of Colombia
1887	4 June	Rafael Nuñez is the 3rd President of Colombia
1888		Carlos Holguín Mallarino is the 4th President of Colombia
1889	14 October	Foundation of Villa Holguin (Later Armenia, Colombia ) by Jesus Maria Ocampo
1891	5 November	Colombian National Police is created
1892	7 August	Miguel Antonio Caro is the 4th president of Colombia
1892	29 September	Rafael Nuñez is the 5th President of Colombia
1894	18 September	Miguel Antonio Caro is the 6th president of Colombia
1896	26 May	Poet José Asunción Silva commits suicide
1898		Manuel Antonio Sanclemente is the 7th president of Colombia
1899	17 October	The Thousand Days' War (1899–1902)(1130 days) (Spanish: Guerra de los Mil Días)
1900	26 May	President Manuel Antonio Sanclemente extended the deadline for completion of the Panama Canal from 31 October 1904 to 31 October 1910.^[13] The executive decree was granted without consent of the Colombian Congress.^[14]
	26 May	Battle of Palonegro
	19 June	Date of death of Salvador Camacho, called the "founder of sociology" in Colombia.
	31 July	José Manuel Marroquín is president of Colombia
	August	Naturalist Soto Grimshaw dies of cholera during an expedition to the Caribbean region of Colombia

Year	Date	Event
2001		The stock markets of Cali, Medellín and Bogotá are fused into a single entity: Bolsa de Valores de Colombia
		Singer Shakira Mebarak wins a Grammy Award for her MTV unplugged
	24 April	the House of Representatives Committee on International Relations published the findings of its investigation into IRA activities in Colombia
	4 May	A car bomb kills four and injures 32 in a luxury hotel in Cali. No group claims the attack.^[26]
	17 May	A car bomb kills 20 and injures at least 50 in a park in Medellín.^[27]
	11 July	Soccer tournament Copa America 2001 was held in Colombia (to 29 July)
	11 August	Arrest of the Irish Colombia Three charged with training FARC rebels in bomb-making
	23 August	In a series of attacks near Medellín, 10 bombs kill one and injure 39 others.^[28] At least 15 members of terrorist group ELN die when the explosives they were carrying detonate.^[29]
	29 September	Politician Consuelo Araújo is murdered while being kidnapped by FARC guerrilla
2002	25 January	A bomb kills a child and four police officers and injures 28 people in Bogotá. Rebel group FARC is blamed
	30 January	A car bomb kills five and injures 40 in the city of Florencia in the department of Caquetá
	21 February	President Pastrana ended the peace talks and ordered the armed forces to start retaking the FARC-EP controlled zone of San Vicente del Caguan
	24 February	Oxygen Green Party Politician Ingrid Betancourt is kiddnapped by FARC guerrilla
	March	President Uribe decided to appoint Marta Lucía Ramírez as Minister of Defense becoming the second woman in Latin America to ever hold this title, after Michelle Bachelet
	7 April	Two bombs explode in the restaurant district of Villavicencio, killing twelve and injuring 70. FARC is the prime suspect for the attack.^[30]
	11 April	Two police officers and a girl are killed by a bomb concealed in the corpse of a peasant (Pedro Nel Camacho) apparently executed by the FARC guerrilla with such purpose ^[31]
	12 April	12 politicians in Valle del Cauca are kidnapped using a hoax antibomb operative, starting the Valle del Cauca Deputies hostage crisis
	12 April	A rocket explodes near the studios of RCN TV in Bogotá.^[32]
	14 April	During an assassination attempt of then-presidential candidate Álvaro Uribe Vélez a bomb kills two and injures 20 in Barranquilla. Rebel group FARC is blamed.
	2 May	Bojaya massacre in Chocó Department. A bomb destroys the local church. 117 dead, 114 injured.
	26 May	Cali bishop Isaias Duarte is murdered by hitmen
	7 August	Álvaro Uribe is elected president of Colombia
	7 August	Four rounds of mortars are fired against the Presidential Palace in Bogotá during the inauguration ceremony of President Álvaro Uribe Vélez. 13 people, mostly homeless, die and 50 are wounded. FARC is blamed.^[33]
	24 November	Guerrilla leader alias Simon Trinidad is extradited to USA
	13 December	A bomb destroys 30th floor of the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Bogotá. 37 people injured.^[34]
2003	16 January	A car bomb kills four and injures 27 at a shopping mall in Medellín. The attack is believed to be a retaliation of FARC for the arrest of 53 of its members in the preceding days
	7 February	2003 El Nogal Club bombing. Car bomb kills 36 and injures more than 200 at the El Nogal social club in Bogotá; FARC rebels are blamed
	14 February	A bomb kills 18 and wounds 37 in Neiva, destroying 70 homes. Amongst the dead are the chief prosecutor in Neiva and the chief of police. FARC is blamed for the attack.^[35]
	5 March	A car bomb kills six and injures 68 in a covered parking lot in Cúcuta. Rebel group ELN is blamed for the attack.^[36]
	May	A group of Colombian Army soldiers, part of a Counter-terrorism unit, while cleaning up after an ambush by guerillas makes the surprising discovery of several tubs buried in the jungle which hold US$16.75 million in cash. They decide to keep the money for themselves, leading to their capture and trial. These events are depicted in the 2006 movie A Ton of Luck
	8 May	A bomb kills three in an attack against a water treatment plant in Cali.
	24 August	Six die and 28 are wounded when a bomb explodes in a riverboat in the town of Puerto Rico. Rebel group FARC is blamed.^[37]
	11 September	A bomb strapped to a horse kills eight and injures 15 in the village of Chita, Boyacá. The attack is blamed on FARC, as the same technique had been used in the past.^[38]
	29 September	A motorcycle packed with explosives kills ten and injures 54 in downtown Florencia, Caquetá. Rebel group FARC is blamed.^[39]
	8 October	A car bomb kills six and injures eleven in downtown Bogotá.^[40]
	15 November	A grenade attack from a motorcycle kills two and injures seventy in the Bogotá Beer Company, a popular pub in Bogotá. Two FARC members were captured.
	December	Biologist Raul Cuero wins NASA Technology Award for his research in removal of radionuclides such as uranium, using Martian simulated soil
2004	15 March	Date of death of popular salsa dancer Amparo Arrebato
	1 May	Ecuadorian government placed further stringent visa restrictions on Colombians seeking to enter Ecuador
	22 May	A bomb exploded in a crowded tavern/discothèque at 11:00 pm Saturday night killing six (some reports indicate seven) and wounding eighty-two. The bomb was packed in a small suitcase and left in the bathroom by suspected Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels. It is believed the bombing was part of a FARC campaign marking the organizations 40th anniversary.
	4 August	A bomb exploded at a bridge in Medellín moments before a parade of antique cars was scheduled to cross it, as the closing event at the annual Festival of the Flowers. 35 people injured.
	29 October	A bomb exploded near a bus stop along Bogotá's Transmilenio bus system route. A taxi passing by was caught in the blast resulting in the death of the driver and a passenger. 30 surrounded houses destroyed
	22 November	USA president George W. Bush visits Cartagena de Indias
	28 November	A bomb exploded beside the mayor's office in the Rafael Uribe district of Bogotá
	30 November	Three people were killed and eight wounded when a fragment grenade was left at a supermarket checkout counter
	13 December	Rodrigo Granda affair. FARC guerrilla leader Rodrigo Granda, was captured by individual Venezuelan officials in Caracas, Venezuela, and transferred to Cúcuta, Colombia (a departmental capital on the two nations' common border), where he was arrested by the Colombian authorities on 14 December, generating a diplomatic crisis with Venezuelan government.
	30 December	Radio Televisión Nacional de Colombia (RTVC) replaced the liquidated Instituto Nacional de Radio y Televisión (Inravisión) as the government-run radio and television broadcasting service
2005	January	Colombian justice adopts the adversarial system
	1 February	FARC attacks the Iscuande marine base in Narino Department with homemade rockets, killing 15 soldiers and injuring 25.^[41]
	3 February	A bridge was blown up in Putumayo Department, killing eight soldiers and a civilian.^[41]
	6 April	An ambush in Arauca state, near Venezuela, kills 17 soldiers.^[42]
	24 June	FARC attacks military positions in the location of Puerto Asís in the Putumayo department, killing 25 and wounding 20 in a single operation.^[43]
	27 October	The islands of San Andrés and Providencia are evacuated due to Hurricane Beta (2005).^[44] Hours later, a hurricane watch was issued.^[45]
	27 December	FARC launches a massive attack in the remote village of San Marino in the Chocó Department, killing at least six police officers along with the temporary abduction of some thirty, before they were released by the guerrillas on 20 December due to military pressure.^[46]
	28 December	FARC rebels ambush troops near Vista Hermosa, Meta, killing 28.^[47]
2006	28 May	Álvaro Uribe is re-elected for a second presidential term
	31 July	16 soldiers die in an ambush in Tibú and a car bomb kills one and injures 22 in Bogotá. Both attacks are blamed on FARC.^[48]
	4 August	A car bomb kills five outside a police station in Cali. FARC suspected responsible.^[49]
	19 October	A car bomb explodes in a military college in northern Bogotá.^[50]
	9 November	The Supreme Court ordered the detention of three congressmen implicated in the signature of an illegal agreement with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia at Santa Fe de Ralito starting the Colombian parapolitics scandal
	December	First Narco submarines of Colombian origin seized by the U.S. Coast Guard, authorities dubbed it Bigfoot because they had heard rumors that such things existed, but nobody had actually seen one.^[51]
	10 December	Paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso surrenders to the Colombian authorities
2007	5 January	kidnapped politician Fernando Araújo Perdomo escaped from his captors after a Colombian National Army military operation in the Montes de María mountains. Araújo spent several days in hiding without food or water until eventually finding help.
	1 March	Ten injured in a car bomb blast in Neiva, capital of Huila; rebel group FARC is believed responsible. The action is suspected to be an assassination attempt on Neiva's mayor.^[52]
	3 March	A bomb kills four police officers and one civilian in the city of Neiva, as they attempt to deactivate it
	16 March	A bomb kills 16 and injures 16 in Buenaventura. Authorities blame FARC.^[53]
	7 April	The first Colombian satellite, Libertad I is launched in orbit from Baikonur cosmodrome
	28 April	Kidnapped police officer Jhon Frank Pinchao escapes from the FARC guerrilla spending near a month lost in the jungle
	May	Virginia Vallejo, media personality and former lover of Pablo Escobar, published her memoir Amando a Pablo, odiando a Escobar (Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar), where she accused several Colombian presidents of involvement with drug traffickers
	28 June	Murder of the politicians kidnapped in the Valle del Cauca Deputies hostage crisis causes national outrage
	7 September	Colombian coffee achieves Protected designation of origin status granted by the European Union^[54]
	13 December	International Court of Justice of The Hague concluded the long-time dispute with the Republic of Nicaragua over the San Andrés y Providencia Islands in favor of Colombian sovereignty over the San Andres Archipelago, ratifying the Esguerra-Bárcenas treaty.^[55] signed between 1928 and 1930^[56]
2008	10 January	Former vice presidential candidate Clara Rojas and former congresswoman Consuelo González are freed after nearly six years in captivity
	1 March	The Colombian military attacks a FARC camp inside Ecuador's territory. Several guerrilla casualties including guerrilla leader Raul Reyes starting the 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis
	3 March	Iván Ríos, a member of the FARC Central High Command was killed by his security chief "Rojas".
	26 March	Guerrilla commander Manuel Marulanda Vélez dies
	18 May	Guerrilla leader Elda Neyis Mosquera alias "Karina" surrenders herself to the military forces
	2 July	Under a Colombian military operation called Operation Jaque, the FARC was tricked by the Colombian Government into releasing 15 hostages to Colombian Intelligence agents, including Ingrid Betancourt, U.S military contractors, and Colombian soldiers and police officers
	15 August	Ituango, Antioquia. Seven people were killed and more than 50 wounded when a bomb detonated in a small town
	21 August	Colombia has chosen the European DVB-T standard for Digital terrestrial television
	30 October	Accusations of Colombian army soldiers involved with criminal bands with the purpose of luring unsuspecting unemployed or homeless people into isolated areas where they were murdered and the scenes were staged as combats against guerrilla in order to enhance their achievements and get performance-related payments, were investigated. The events, known as the 'false positives' scandal, led to the resignation of Commander-in-chief, general Mario Montoya.^[57] As of 2012, 3,350 such cases had been investigated in all parts of the country and verdicts had been reached in 170 cases.^[58]
	12 November	Riots broke out in the municipalities of Pasto, Tumaco, Popayán and later spread all over the country after the collapse of several pyramid schemes. Thousands of victims had invested their money in pyramids that promised them extraordinary interest rates. The lack of regulation laws allowed those pyramids to grow excessively during several years. Finally, after the riots the Colombian government was forced to declare the country in economical emergency in order to seize and stop those schemes. Several of the pyramid's managers were arrested and are being prosecuted for the crime of "illegal massive money reception".^[59]
	22 November	Colombia and Canada signed a new $1.14 billion dollar bilateral trade agreement (the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement) at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting.
2009	8 January	Colombian drug lord and head of the Caqueta cartel Leonidas Vargas is murdered inside a hospital. his brother(Héctor Fabio Vargas) and his girlfriend (Colombian actress Liliana Andrea Lozano) were tortured and murdered^[60] in Pradera, Colombia.^[61]
	8 January	Recognition of same-sex unions in Colombia is achieved by rule of the Constitutional Court
	11 January	Reports of mass murders of Awá (kwaiker) indigenous people by FARC guerrilla
	February	Colombia has extended its existing tobacco control regulations by a smoking ban requiring all indoor work places and public places be immediately smoke-free, prohibiting tobacco advertising, promotions and sponsorship
	February	the fossils of 28 individual Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered, were announced to have been found in the coal mines of Cerrejón in La Guajira, Colombia.^[62]
	March	The Álvarez incest case was uncovered when 59-year-old Arcedio Álvarez was arrested in Mariquita, Colombia, accused of sexually abusing his now 30-year-old daughter Alba Nidia Álvarez since the age of 9.^[63] The daughter also gave birth to 11 children, three of whom died.^[64]
	March	the Colombian government enacted a mandate to introduce E85 flexible-fuel vehicles
	15 March	Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo gets ranked in the Forbes list of world billionaires.^[65]
	April	The Colombian armed forces launched Strategic Leap,^[66] an offensive in borders areas where the FARC's forces has still a strong military presence, especially in Arauca, near the Venezuelan border.^[67]
	April	Colombian drug lord Daniel Rendón Herrera alias Don "Mario" is captured while hiding in a jungle.^[68]
	13 May	Vallenato composer and troubadour Rafael Escalona dies due to heart failure.^[69]
	14 May	During his visit to Colombia, the Czech Republic Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek negotiated a possible sale of Aero L-159 Alca combat aircraft with Colombian President Álvaro Uribe.^[70]^[71]
	June	Clara Guerrero wins Women's World Championship World Ranking Masters
	July 2009	The Colombian government claimed that AT4 anti-tank rockets manufactured by Saab Bofors Dynamics of Sweden, which were later purchased by Venezuela were being used by the FARC. In response, President Chavez ordered most staff members of the embassy in Colombia to return to Venezuela, including the ambassador. Only the "lowest functionaries" were left to staff the embassy.^[72]
	18 July	Ricardo Londoño, Colombia's first Formula One driver is murdered in the north Colombian Córdoba Department.
	8 August	Cuban artist Tania Bruguera sets a controversial performance in the National University of Colombia (Bogotá branch), included consumption of cocaine^[73] provided by the artist to the attendants.^[74]^[75]
	30 August	President Álvaro Uribe had contracted the AH1N1 flu virus, becoming the second head of state to do so (the first being Óscar Arias).^[76]
	11 September	A group of eradicators of Coca crops near the village of La Gabarra, Municipality of Tibú, Norte de Santander is attacked by guerrilla forces with a donkey with bombs attached to it. 2 people deceased^[77]