Dissolution of Gran Colombia
Bolívar's union splits into three republics
In 1830 Venezuela and Ecuador left Gran Colombia, and in December that year Simón Bolívar died. By the end of 1831 the union was gone: its central provinces became the Republic of New Granada, the future Colombia.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — 16 years earlier
- 1830 July Revolution — same year
- 1830 Belgian Revolution — same year
- 1833 Abolition of slavery in the British Empire — 3 years later
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — 15 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1807 Treaties of Tilsit — 23 years earlier
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — 18 years earlier
- 1812 Battle of Borodino — 18 years earlier
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — 23 years later
Middle East
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — 2 years earlier
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — 9 years later
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — 9 years later
Africa
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — 25 years earlier
- 1830 France invades Algiers — same year
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — 5 years later
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — 17 years later
Asia
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 15 years earlier
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 11 years earlier
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — 1 year later
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — 9 years later
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — 23 years later
Oceania
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (aged 81)
- Simón Bolívar (aged 47)
- Alexander Pushkin (aged 31)
- Charles Darwin (aged 21)
- Abraham Lincoln (aged 21)
- Karl Marx (aged 12)
- Queen Victoria (aged 11)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 9)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 2)
- Katsushika Hokusai (aged 70)