page_title: Timeline of Bogotá
section_title: 20th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Bogotá / 20th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Early 20th century Español: Años 1920
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bogotá, Colombia.
context_section_description: 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 (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 (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
caption: Statue of Christopher Columbus, inaugurated in 1906
  1920s
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