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Simon Bolivar

Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)

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Patriot, statesman, founder of Bolivia and liberator of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama & Peru
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 24 Jul 1783  CESimon Bolivar (1783-1830) was born in Caracas, Venezuela. His parents died when he was a child and he inherited a fortune. As a young man, he traveled in Europe.
    1810  CESimon Bolivar joined the group of patriots that seized Caracas in Vesuzuela and proclaimed independence from Spain. He went to Great Britain in search of aid, but could get only a promise of British neutrality.
    1813  CESimon Bolivar returned to Venezuela, and took command of a patriot army, recapturing Caracas from the Spaniards.
    1814  CERoyalist forces defeated Simon Bolivar, and he went into exile in Jamaica.
   Dec 1815  CESimon Bolivar took refuge in Haiti's southern territories. He received a hero's welcome by General Marion, the military commander of the South.
    1817  CESimon Bolivar again invaded Venezuela. He established a revolutionary government at Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar), and he was elected president of Venezuela.
  7 Aug 1819  CEBattle of Boyaca, when Simon Bolivar defeats Spanish in New Granada (now Colombia), liberating the territory.
 17 Dec 1819  CESimon Bolivar returned to Angostura and became the first president of the original republic of Colombia (now Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela).
 24 Jun 1821  CESimon Bolivar crushed the Spanish army at Carabobo in Venezuela.
    1821  CEBattle of Carabobo when Simon Bolivar defeats the royalists outside of Caracas.
    1821  CESimon Bolivar marched into Educador and added that territory to the new Colombian republic.
    1824  CESimon Bolivar led the revolutionary forces of Peru in their fight for independence and won a victory over the Spaniards at Auacucho.
    1825  CEUpper Peru became a separate state, named Bolivia in Simon Bolivar's honor.
    1825  CEAfter a meeting in 1822 with another great liberator, Simon Bolivar became was elected president of Peru.
 
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