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The Spanish conquest

This chapter discusses the discovery and conquest by Europeans, mainly before the establishment of colonial institutions in 1550.

The consolidation of Cologne

This chapter discusses how to set the colonial authority of the Crown of Castile during the sixteenth century. The New Kingdom of Granada This chapter discusses the politics and history of the Royal Audience of Santa Fe and the New Kingdom of Granada.

The Viceroyalty

This chapter discusses the politics and history of the Viceroyalty of Santa Fe or Virreina of New Granada.

History of Colombia


Refers to events that have marked the history of the present Republic of Colombia, a Latin American country located northwest of South America, with an area of 2,070,408 km ² and a population of 44,091,133. [1] Colombia is up a state in 1810 from the Viceroyalty of New Granada, Spanish colony of the Empire which was founded in 1550. In 1886, finally took its current name of Republic of Colombia.

Its history is usually divided into pre-Columbian era, Spanish discovery and conquest, colonial, independence, and republican century building. Much of the history of Colombia has a close relationship with the history of Spain to the independence and the stories of Ecuador, Venezuela, Panama and Latin America in general.

Colombia's history has been characterized by a marked difference in the product class of the supremacy of the white Creoles on the natives and mestizos from the time of the colony. Creoles led both the gestures of independence as the political and social organization of the fledgling republic, but failed to change much in the situation of indigenous, black, mulatto and mestizos country, creating a strong social antagonism during the nineteenth century as the century. The Republican-first century was turbulent, with the tension between a conception of federalism as a state and a centralized estaounidense the French manner, which led the country to permanent war and launched a conservative and liberal party. The Constitution of 1886 led by President Rafael Núñez ended the liberal hegemony and established a centralist, conservative and strictly Catholic.