# Timeline of Bogotá

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bogotá, Colombia.

## Prehistory

* The area around Bogotá was inhabited since the late Pleistocene, with sites El Abra (12,500 BP), Aguazuque and Tequendama as earliest evidences of inhabitation

## Pre-conquest

* <1537 - Bogotá and its surroundings was called Bacatá by the Muisca who inhabited the Bogotá savanna and were organised in their loose Muisca Confederation

## 16th century

* 1538 - Santa Fe de Bogotá founded by Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
* 1539 - 27 April: Municipal council in session
* 1540 - City status granted by Charles I of the Spanish Empire
* 1549 - City becomes capital of the New Kingdom of Granada
* 1550 - Santo Domingo convent founded.
* 1553 - Main Plaza relocated
* 1557 - Santo Domingo convent relocated
* 1558 - Smallpox epidemic
* 1561 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Santafé en Nueva Granada established
* 1564 - Archbishop Juan de los Barrios gifts his house for the establishment of the San Pedro hospital
* 1565 - Chapel built
* 1578 - The entrepreneur and landowner Francisco Hernán Sanchéz, urbanizes the surrounding areas to the river and builds a temple
* 1580 - Saint Thomas Aquinas University founded
* 1592 - San Bartolomé Seminar School founded

## 17th century

* 1604 - Jesuit college established
* 1616 - Population: 3,000
* 1621
** Mint established
** Church of San Francisco built.
* 1635 - Iglesia de San Ignacio (church) opens
* 1653 - Our Lady of the Rosary University founded
* 1674 - Santa Clara church built
* 1675 - Leprosy epidemic
* 1681 - Typhus epidemic
* 1692 - Measles epidemic

## 18th century

* 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
* 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
* 1785 - Earthquake
* 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

## 19th century

* 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
** Spaniard Pablo Morillo in power
** Puerta Falsa cafe in business
* 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
* 1846
** Sociedad Filarmonica founded
** 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
* 1864 - Medicine & Natural Sciences Society founded
* 1865 - Telegraph begins operating
* 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.
* 1881 - Papel Periódico Ilustrado begins publication
* 1884
** Compañía Colombiana de Teléfonos (telephone company) established
** Tramway begins operating
* 1886 - Universidad Externado de Colombia and Escuela de Bellas Artes (school) founded
* 1887 - The aqueduct is upgraded to an iron aqueduct pipe
* 1889
** Bogotá Savannah Railway begins operating.
** Bogotá Electric Light Company is founded
* 1890 - Bavaria brewery in business
* 1891 - The Medicine & Sciences Society is renamed as Academia de Medicina (Colombia), (Medicine Academy)
* 1892
** Usaquen train station of the Ferrocarril del Norte (Bogotá) inaugurated
** Teatro de Cristóbal Colón inaugurated
* 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

## 20th century

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| New Kingdom of Granada | 1550–1717 |
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| United Provinces of New Granada | 1810–1816 |
| Gran Colombia | 1819–1831 |
| Republic of New Granada | 1831–1858 |
| Granadine Confederation | 1858–1863 |
| United States of Colombia | 1863–1886 |
| Republic of Colombia | 1886–present |
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* 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
* 1915 - El Espectador newspaper begins publication in Bogota
* 1918
** Population: 143.994
** Flu epidemic
* 1921 - First student strike
* 1922 - Quinta de Bolívar museum inaugurated
* 1923 - Police headquarters building constructed
* 1926 - Capitolio Nacional built
* 1928
** Bogotá Stock Exchange established
** Population: 235,421
* 1929 - Medellín-Bogota railway begins operating
* 1930
** Aerodromo del Techo [es] (aerodrome) is built
** 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
** Estadio El Campín, Alfonso López Pumarejo Stadium, and National Library building constructed
** 400th anniversary of city founding
** Avenida de Las Américas (avenue) built
** Population: 336,996
** First Feria Internacional del Libro de Bogotá [es] (book fair) inaugurated
* 1939 - Gold Museum established
* 1941 - Corporación Deportiva Santa Fe (football club) formed
* 1946 - Millonarios Fútbol Club formed
* 1947 - Architect Le Corbusier is hired to conduct the city planning
* 1948
** March–April: International Conference of American States held
** 9 April: Bogotazo
** District University of Bogotá and University of the Andes established
* 1951 - Population: 648,324.
* 1952 - City flag design adopted
* 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
** La Republica newspaper begins publication
** 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
* 1956 - University of America founded
* 1958
** Construction of the 26th Avenue begins
** Luis Ángel Arango Library opens
* 1959
** El Dorado Airport in operation
** Corficolombiana headquartered in Bogota
* 1960 - Population: 1,271,700
* 1961 - John F. Kennedy visits Bogotá
* 1963 - Puente Aranda becomes part of the city
* 1964
** Population: 1'697.311
** Charles de Gaulle visits Bogotá
* 1965 - El Espacio newspaper begins publication
* 1967 - Bogotá Philharmonic founded
* 1968
** August: Pope Paul VI visits the city
** Simón Bolívar Park inaugurated
** Embajador Theater opens as one of the few cinemas in the city.
** Fuerza Aérea de Colombia (national air force) establishes the Aeronautical Museum in the old airport of Techo
* 1969 - Avianca Building constructed
* 1970 - Catholic University of Colombia founded
* 1973 - Population: 2,855,065.
* 1974 - Ciclovía inaugurated
* 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
** Bus terminal inaugurated
** Metrópolis shopping center inaugurated
** Bogotá Film Festival begins
* 1985
** 6 November: Palace of Justice siege
** Population: 3,974,813.
* 1986
** 3 July: Pope John Paul II visits the city
** Children's Museum of Bogotá established
* 1987 - Housing complex Ciudad Salitre construction begins
* 1988
** Andrés Pastrana Arango first mayor of Bogotá elected by popular vote, previously they were elected by the president or governor
** Iberoamerican Theater Festival held
* 1989
** Archivo General de la Nación (government department) inaugurated
** 6 December: Bombing in Paloquemao
** Santa Barbara shopping center opens

### 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
** Rock al Parque music festival begins
** Antanas Mockus Sivickas becomes mayor
** Centro Andino shopping mall opens
** September: Track Cycling World Championships held at Luis Carlos Galán Velodrome
** McDonald's opens its first restaurant in Colombia.
* 1996
** Casa de Moneda de Colombia (museum) inaugurated
** Paul Bromberg Silverstein becomes mayor
* 1998
** Maloka Museum of science inaugurated
** Enrique Peñalosa Londoño becomes mayor
* 1999
** Citytv Bogotá begins broadcasting
** Louis Vuitton and Bvlgari opens its first boutique in Colombia.
** Mormon temple dedicated
* 2000
** TransMilenio bus system begins operating
** 24 February: Car-Free Day inaugurated

## 21st century
### 2000s

* 2001
** Colombian Securities Exchange headquartered in city
** Antanas Mockus Sivickas becomes mayor
** July: Copa América football tournament held at El Campín Stadium
** September: Hard Rock Café opens in Bogotá, and Colombia.
* 2002
** 25 January: Bombing
** 7 August: Attack at Presidential Palace
** 13 December: Hotel bombing
* 2003
** National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia founded
** 7 February: El Nogal Club bombing
** 8 October: Bombing
** 15 November: Attack in pub
* 2004
** Luis Eduardo Garzón becomes mayor
** 29 October: Bombing
* 2005
** Versace opens its first boutique in Colombia.
** Bogotá's Carnival resurrected
** Population: 6,778,691
* 2006
** Bike Paths Network laid out
** Centro Comercial Santafé shopping mall opens
** 31 July: Bombing
* 2007
** May: Inditex starts operations in Bogotá, and Colombia.
** City named World Book Capital by UNESCO.
* 2008
** April: Ermenegildo Zegna opens its first boutique in Colombia.
** La Peluquería (art space) founded
** Samuel Moreno Rojas becomes mayor
* 2009
** Fundación Capital headquartered in city
** October: The MTV Awards were for first time held in Colombia.

### 2010s

* 2010 - Caracol Radio headquarters bombing.
* 2011 - María Fernanda Campo becomes mayor, succeeded by Clara López Obregón
* 2012
** March: Cartier opens its first jewelry in Colombia.
** Gustavo Petro becomes mayor
** Forever 21 opens its first store in Latin America in Bogotá.
* 2013
** Google Street View begins operating.
** Total Renew of El Dorado International Airport.
** Dolce & Gabbana opens its first Boutique in Colombia.
** December: Pro-Petro demonstration
* 2014
** February: Burberry opens its first boutique in Colombia.
** September: Tiffany & Co. opens its first Jewelry in Colombia.
** Population: 7,776,845 (urban agglomeration).
** Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards were for first time held in Colombia.
* 2015
** April: Book fair collapsed by YouTubers.
** BD Bacatá becomes the tallest building in Colombia.
** Starbucks opens its controversial first coffee shop in Colombia.
* 2016
** Population: 7,980,001.
** Parque La Colina shopping mall opens.
** Enrique Peñalosa becomes mayor for second time.
* 2017
** H&M opens its first Store in Colombia.
** Pope Francis visits the city.
** Centro Andino Bombing
** Multiplaza La Felicidad Shopping Mall opens.
* 2018 - The Coliseo Cubierto el Campín was remodeled and renamed as Movistar Arena.