Gran Colombia was a republic created by Simon Bolivar in the northern part of South America, after the independence struggle against Spain. It was formed at the Congress of Angostura, and comprised the territories of present-day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama, and parts of Peru, Guyana and Brazil. Bolivar dreamed of a union of South American states, but regional rivalries, disagreements over centralism and federalism, and personal conflicts among leaders such as Francisco de Paula Santander and Jose Antonio Paez weakened it. Venezuela and Ecuador broke away in 1830, and the remaining part became the Republic of New Granada, the predecessor of Colombia.
Before and after
- 1 August 1818Founding of Danmarks Nationalbank
- 18 October 1818Founding of University of Bonn
- 28 October 1818Birth of Ivan Turgenev
- 24 December 1818Birth of James Prescott Joule
- from 1819 to 1831Gran Colombia
- 25 January 1819Founding of University of Virginia
- 6 February 1819Founding of modern Singapore
- 24 May 1819Birth of Victoria
- 31 May 1819Birth of Walt Whitman
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The era
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