Colombian War of Independence
The Colombian Declaration of Independence occurred on July 20, 1810 when the Junta de Santa Fe was formed in Santa Fe de Bogota, the capital of the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Granada, to govern the territory autonomously from Spain. The event inspired similar independence movements across Latin America, and triggered an almost decade-long rebellion culminating in the founding of the Republic of Colombia, which spanned present-day Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela, along with parts of northern Peru and northwestern Brazil.
| Colombian War of Independence | |||||||||
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| Part of the Atlantic Revolutions, Spanish American wars of independence, Decolonization of the Americas and Napoleonic Wars | |||||||||
From left to right and top to bottom: Battle of Calibío, Battle of Juanambú, Battle of the Palo River, Siege of Cartagena (1815), Battle of Boyacá and Congress of Cúcuta. | |||||||||
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Simón Bolívar Francisco de Paula Santander Antonio Nariño (POW) Camilo Torres Tenorio Antonio Baraya Antonio Villavicencio José Miguel Pey José María Córdova José Prudencio Padilla José María Cabal Manuel del Castillo y Rada Manuel Serviez Policarpa Salavarrieta Manuel de Bernardo Álvarez Francisco José de Caldas José de Leyva Atanasio Girardot † Antonio Ricaurte † Juan Nepomuceno Moreno |
Fernando VII Juan de Sámano Pablo Morillo Melchor Aymerich Miguel Tacón y Rosique José María Barreiro Melchor Aymerich Agustín Agualongo Isidro Barrada Sebastián de la Calzada Ignacio Asín † | ||||||||
| About 250,000-400,000 deaths in the Independence of Gran Colombia or about 12-20% of the population (1810-1824). | |||||||||
Although Gran Colombia would ultimately dissolve in 1831, it was for a time among the most powerful countries in the Western Hemisphere, and played an influential role in shaping the political development of other newly sovereign Latin American states. The modern nation-state of Colombia recognizes the event as its national independence day.