Battle of Boyacá
Bolívar's victory opens the way to New Granada's freedom
On 7 August 1819 Simón Bolívar's army, fresh from crossing the Andes, routed the Spanish at the bridge over the Boyacá River and entered Bogotá three days later. In December the Congress of Angostura proclaimed the Republic of Colombia — Gran Colombia.
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- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — 15 years earlier
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — 5 years earlier
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Eastern Europe & Russia
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Middle East
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Africa
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Asia
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Alive at the time
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (aged 70)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (aged 50)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (aged 49)
- Simón Bolívar (aged 36)
- Alexander Pushkin (aged 20)
- Charles Darwin (aged 10)
- Abraham Lincoln (aged 10)
- Karl Marx (aged 1)
- Queen Victoria (aged 0)
- James Watt (aged 83)