Simón Bolívar was born on 24 July 1783 in Caracas. A Venezuelan military and political leader, Bolívar was born into a wealthy family in Caracas and, inspired by Enlightenment ideas and by his travels in Europe, became a leader of the movement for independence from Spain. Known as El Libertador, he led campaigns that freed Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, which was named after him. He dreamed of a union of Latin American states and for a time was president of Gran Colombia, but regional rivalries and political disputes broke it up. Disillusioned and ill with tuberculosis, he resigned in 1830 and died near Santa Marta, in Colombia.
Before and after
- 1783Steamboat
- 1783Discovery of tungsten
- 23 January 1783Birth of Stendhal
- 3 April 1783Birth of Washington Irving
- 24 July 1783Birth of Simón Bolívar
- 3 September 1783Treaty of Paris (1783)
- 18 September 1783Death of Leonhard Euler
- 24 November 1784Birth of Zachary Taylor
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