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1538
gonzalo jimenez quesada spanish conqueror
Before the foundation of the Spanish city, and after this. The first goes from 800 a. C., with the first human settlements, to August 6, 1538, when Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada founded it. The second, from then until today. Today it is the most extensive, populated and active city in Colombia. But during the Colony it rivaled Cartagena and Tunja for the first place in importance in the New Kingdom of Granada. It was one of the main stages of the struggle for independence. -
1539
foundation of bogota in two times
Gonzalo Jiménez establishes a camp, or military barracks, which is called Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza. This moment occurred where today is the Quevedo stream in the Candelaria neighborhood.
The legal foundation of the city for its part occurred seven months and twenty-one days after the moment facto. On April 27 of the year 1539, when all the requirements and procedures demanded by the Spanish authorities for the establishment and recognition of a city were fulfilled -
1539
gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Nicolás de Federman y Sebastián de Belalcázar
on April 22, 1539, the legal foundation was advanced, in the presence of Sebastián de Belalcázar and Nicolás de Federmán, who filed a lawsuit for the possession of these territories with the advance, which was resolved in favor of the latter after his trip to Spain. There, then, the sites for the main church, the government house, were designated. -
viceregal place
in 1525 Fernandez de Oviedo tried to establish a government in the area of Cartagena (Gobernación de Cartagena), but did not prosper until the founding of the city in 1533. On February 26, 1538, the Royal Audiencia of Panama was established on the Isthmus, Real Certificate issued by Carlos V. Towards 1542 the governorates of Santa Marta (founded in 1525), Cartagena and Popayán (founded in 1536) existed. -
financial entity
Banco de Bogotá is a Colombian bank and is the first bank created in the country. Its main shareholders are Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores and Financiera S.A. , and is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia. On July 15, 2010, it acquired BAC Credomatic, one of the main financial holdings in Central America. -
trolley of Bogota
The first line of the tramway ran the Seventh race from Plaza de Bolívar, passing through Centenario Park, to the San Diego square, and from there it continued north through Carrera 13 (then called Camino Nuevo), to Chapinero. The rate was five cents. In 1892 a line was opened linking the Plaza de Bolívar and the Estación de la Sabana. -
subway of bogota
It all started in 1942, when the mayor of the time, Carlos Sanz de Santamaría, mentioned the importance of making the metro. At that time the Bogotans could be seen running behind the tram and holding on to it: it was a human cluster of workers. More than 200,000 people used it daily. -
the bogotazo 1948
the bogotazo happened because of the riots that took place in the capital of Bogotá, which were the result of the assassination of the leader of the Liberal Party, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, on April 9, 1948. -
district boundary
President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, and the city itself the municipalities of Engativá, Fontibón, Suba, Usme, Usaquén and Bosa, as well as part of the Agricultural Colony of Sumapaz. Said localities conserved part of their former autonomy, until in the following years minor town halls were born within the urban part (some of them, segregated from most of the incorporated municipalities), and one end of each year. -
first papa
the first Pope who was in Colombia. On August 22, 1968, Paul VI, the Supreme Pontiff number 262 of the Catholic Church, arrived in the country. -
bolivar sword
The theft of Bolívar's sword was an action of the Colombian guerrilla Movement April 19 (M-19), on January 17, 1974, in which they succeeded in removing one of the swords of the Liberator Simón Bolívar from the Quinta museum house of Bolívar in the city of Bogotá -
first shopping center
1976 saw the birth of the first large shopping center in Bogotá. This was Unicentro. What big problems he had to take off. Without clutch, Unicentro divides in two the history of the capital commerce -
First Mayor of Bogota
Andrés Pastrana , is a lawyer, businessman, diplomat, journalist and Colombian politician, member and leader of the Colombian Conservative Party currently militates in the Democratic Center Party in alliance with his presidential successor
