Bolivia - Notable Historical Events
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Bolivia - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1548-07-16 |
La Paz, Bolivia is founded |
1809-07-16 |
La Paz, Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva. The first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo |
1825-08-06 |
Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day) |
1836-11-11 |
Chile declares war on Bolivia & Peru |
1879-03-23 |
War of the Pacific was fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully took over Arica and Tarapacá which left Bolivia as a landlocked country. |
1879-04-05 |
Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific. |
1903-11-17 |
In the Treaty of Petropolis, Bolivia cedes the territory of Arce to Brazil; Bolivia gains rail and water outlets in the east |
1904-10-20 |
Bolivia and Chile sign a treaty ending the War of the Pacific; it recognizes Chile's possession of the coast, but provides for construction of a railway to link La Paz, Bolivia, to Arica on the coast |
1910-01-19 |
Germany & Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty |
1914-05-15 |
Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
1929-06-03 |
Chile, Peru & Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area resolving border dispute |
1933-05-10 |
Paraguay declares war on Bolivia |
1933-12-20 |
Bolivia & Paraguay sign cease fire |
1935-06-12 |
Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco (Bolivia vs Paraguay) |
1935-06-14 |
Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends |
1943-12-19 |
Military coup in Bolivia |
1945-04-18 |
Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Bolivia are established. |
1952-04-09 |
Popular uprising in Bolivia |
1953-07-07 |
Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. |
1959-04-19 |
Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails |
1967-02-02 |
Bolivia adopts its constitution |
1967-04-20 |
French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia |
1967-10-08 |
Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. |
1967-11-17 |
French author Régis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia |
1969-09-26 |
Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia |
1970-12-23 |
French author Régis Debray freed in Bolivia |
1971-11-05 |
Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping |
1976-10-13 |
A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground). |
1978-07-21 |
Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, president Hugo Banzer flees |
1979-11-01 |
Bolivia military coup under Gen Busch, pres Guevara flees |
1982-10-05 |
Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia |
1982-10-10 |
Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia |
1983-01-19 |
Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia |
1983-01-25 |
Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia |
1984-06-30 |
Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia |
1986-08-28 |
Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege |
1988-08-08 |
US Secretary of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia |
1989-08-06 |
Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia |
1993-11-04 |
Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
1994-06-08 |
7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia |
1994-06-17 |
1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago |
1997-06-01 |
Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia. |
2003-10-18 |
Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia. |
2006-01-22 |
Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president. |
2012-06-07 |
A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people |
2012-12-01 |
8 people are killed and 36 injured after a bus overturns in Bolivia |
2013-01-21 |
18 people are killed and 24 are injured after a bus falls down a ravine in Yungas, Bolivia |
2013-01-24 |
17 people are killed and 34 are injured in a bus crash in Taperas, Bolivia |
2013-08-24 |
30 people are killed in a gang battle involving flame throwers in Palmasola prison, Bolivia |
2013-11-03 |
8 people are killed and 10 are injured after a turboprop plane crashes in northern Bolivia |
2014-10-12 |
Evo Morales is re-elected President of Bolivia |
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Bolivia - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1909-02-04 |
Kenneth W Howell, English Anglican bishop (Chile/Bolivia/Peru) |
1919-05-30 |
René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969) |
1941-06-07 |
Jaime Laredo, Bolivia, violinist (Qn Elisabeth of Belgium prize 1959) |
1959-10-26 |
Evo Morales, President of Bolivia |
1975-01-31 |
Bolivia Samsonite, The Voyeur 12 |
1976-06-21 |
Natalia Cronenbold Aguilera, Miss Universe-Bolivia (1996) |
1978-01-28 |
Helga Bauer Salas, Miss Bolivia Universe (1997) |
1987-08-25 |
Nahuel Attar, Erase una vez en Bolivia |
Bolivia - Notable Deaths
Bolivia - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1946-07-21 |
Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908) |
1967-10-09 |
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary and physician, executed in Bolivia at 39 |
1969-04-27 |
René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (b. 1919) |
1976-06-02 |
Juan José Torres, former President of Bolivia, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor |
1996-06-20 |
Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies |
1996-08-06 |
Hernan Siles Zuazo, Pres of Bolivia (1956-60, 1982-85), dies at 82 |
2001-06-07 |
Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907) |
