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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Colombia with the correct year: The Spanish arrived in ______ and initiated a period of annexation and colonization, ultimately creating the Viceroyalty of New G…
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Colombia with the correct year: A period of constant political violence ensued, and Panama seceded in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Muisca with the correct year: The first known contact with Europeans in the region was in ______ during the Spanish conquest of New Granada.
  4. Complete the sentence about Quimbaya civilization with the correct year: The most notable collection of Quimbaya artifacts is the Quimbaya treasure which consists of 433 artifacts originally discovere…
  5. Complete the sentence about El Dorado with the correct year: The Muisca were skilled goldsmiths, and Spanish expeditions under Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada reached and conquered their territory in _____…
  6. Complete the sentence about El Dorado with the correct year: Christopher Columbus, the first European known to have reached the Americas after the Scandinavians, made landfall in the Caribbean Islands…
  7. Complete the sentence about Spanish conquest of the Muisca with the correct year: In April ______ they arrived at Funza, where Tisquesusa was beaten by the Spanish.
  8. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The territory corresponding to Panama was incorporated in ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Viceroyalty of New Granada with the correct year: The provinces of Venezuela were separated from the Viceroyalty and assigned to the Captaincy General of Venezuela in _____…
  10. Complete the sentence about Viceroyalty of New Granada with the correct year: A strip along the Atlantic Ocean in Mosquito Coast was added by the Royal Decree of 20 November ______, but the British ba…
  11. Complete the sentence about Viceroyalty of New Granada with the correct year: In ______ the Spanish took 22 Wayuus captive, in order to put them to work building the fortifications of Cartagena.
  12. Complete the sentence about Viceroyalty of New Granada with the correct year: On 2 May ______, at El Rincón, near Riohacha, they set their village afire, burning the church and two Spaniards who had t…
  13. Complete the sentence about Antonio Nariño with the correct year: In ______, he published the first French to Spanish translation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in Spain's…
  14. Complete the sentence about Antonio Nariño with the correct year: Nariño eventually returned to America in ______ traveling through the Caribbean and Venezuela.
  15. Complete the sentence about Antonio Nariño with the correct year: On February 20, ______, in recognition of his impact and leadership President Simón Bolívar made him interim vice-president of the new…
  16. Complete the sentence about Simón Bolívar with the correct year: In ______, Bolívar returned to Venezuela and promoted Venezuelan independence to other wealthy creoles.
  17. Complete the sentence about Simón Bolívar with the correct year: After Spanish forces subdued New Granada in ______, Bolívar was forced into exile on Jamaica.
  18. Complete the sentence about Gran Colombia with the correct year: The ______ proclamation of a country with the name "Colombia" by the Congress of Angostura gave the term a specific geographic and poli…
  19. Complete the sentence about Congress of Angostura with the correct year: The Congress of Angostura is considered Venezuela's second legislative congress, the first being the one that met in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Congress of Angostura with the correct year: A constitution for the new nation was created at the Congress of Cúcuta in August ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about Francisco de Miranda with the correct year: Born in Caracas in the Viceroyalty of New Granada into a wealthy family, Miranda left to pursue an education in Madrid in ______…
  22. Complete the sentence about Francisco de Miranda with the correct year: In ______, following Spain's entry into the American Revolutionary War, he was sent to Cuba and fought the British at Pensacola.
  23. Complete the sentence about Francisco de Miranda with the correct year: Accused of espionage and smuggling, he fled to the United States in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Francisco de Miranda with the correct year: Miranda returned to Europe in ______ and travelled through the continent, gradually formulating his plans for Spanish American i…
  25. Complete the sentence about Francisco de Miranda with the correct year: From ______ on, he took an active part in the French Revolution, serving as a general during the Battle of Valmy and the Flander…
  26. Complete the sentence about Francisco de Miranda with the correct year: In ______, Miranda launched an unsuccessful expedition to liberate Venezuela with volunteers from the United States.
  27. Complete the sentence about Antonio José de Sucre with the correct year: Born to an aristocratic family in Cumaná, Sucre joined the revolt against Spanish rule in ______ and quickly established himsel…
  28. Complete the sentence about Antonio José de Sucre with the correct year: In ______, he led the Patriot forces to triumph at the Battle of Pichincha and liberated Quito, from which modern Ecuador would…
  29. Complete the sentence about Antonio José de Sucre with the correct year: Charles de Sucre y Pardo served as a soldier in Catalonia in ______ and was later named Governor of Cartagena de Indias and Cap…
  30. Complete the sentence about Antonio José de Sucre with the correct year: On 22 December ______, Charles de Sucre y Pardo arrived in Cumaná, Venezuela, having been named Governor of New Andalucia, whic…
  31. Complete the sentence about Antonio José de Sucre with the correct year: In ______, Antonio José de Sucre joined the fight for South American independence from Spain.
  32. Complete the sentence about Antonio José de Sucre with the correct year: The Battle of Pichincha took place on 24 May ______, on the slopes of the Pichincha volcano, near Quito in what is now Ecuador.
  33. Complete the sentence about Republic of New Granada with the correct year: The state was created after the dissolution of Gran Colombia in ______ through the secession of Ecuador and Venezuela.
  34. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, the state was renamed into the Granadine Confederation.
  35. Complete the sentence about Republic of New Granada with the correct year: In ______, a dispute arose over the dissolution of monasteries by the Congress of New Granada.
  36. Complete the sentence about Thousand Days' War with the correct year: The intended date for the beginning of the civil war was October 20, ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Jorge Eliécer Gaitán with the correct year: In ______, Gaitán drafted a letter to the Colombian newspaper, El Tiempo, emphasizing the importance of higher education.
  38. Complete the sentence about Jorge Eliécer Gaitán with the correct year: Gaitán graduated as one of the top students in his new school, Colegio of Martín Restrepo Mejía in ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about La Violencia with the correct year: An alternative historiography proposes the Conservative Party's return to power following the election of ______ to be the cause.
  40. Complete the sentence about La Violencia with the correct year: As a result of La Violencia there were no liberal candidates for the presidency, congress, or any public corporations in the ______ elec…
  41. Complete the sentence about La Violencia with the correct year: Since the 1920s, Conservatives had held the majority of governmental power, a position it would continue to occupy until the ______ elec…
  42. Complete the sentence about La Violencia with the correct year: In the ______ election, Mariano Ospina Pérez of the Conservative party won the presidency, largely because the Liberal votes were split…
  43. Complete the sentence about Gustavo Rojas Pinilla with the correct year: In ______, he mounted a successful coup d'état against Ospina's successor as president, the extreme right-wing Laureano Gómez C…
  44. Complete the sentence about Gustavo Rojas Pinilla with the correct year: Rojas was born in the city of Tunja, Boyacá, on March 12, ______, to Julio Rojas Jiménez and his wife, Hermencia Pinilla Suárez…
  45. Complete the sentence about Gustavo Rojas Pinilla with the correct year: In ______ while serving in Manizales, Caldas, he was promoted to lieutenant in the army.
  46. Complete the sentence about Gustavo Rojas Pinilla with the correct year: In ______, Rojas returned to the Army as Colombia went to war against Peru over the region.
  47. Complete the sentence about National Front with the correct year: Years later, in ______ the "Union Nacional" was offered by the then Conservative presidential candidate Mariano Ospina Pérez and put i…
  48. Complete the sentence about National Front with the correct year: On February 29, ______, the Liberal Party led by Jorge Eliecer Gaitan decided to leave "Union Nacional" and removed Liberal members fr…
  49. Complete the sentence about National Front with the correct year: On March 21, ______, President Ospina then appointed replacements all from his Conservative party.
  50. Complete the sentence about National Front with the correct year: With the assassination of Gaitan on April 9, ______, tensions between the two parties escalated to physical confrontations.
  51. Complete the sentence about National Front with the correct year: In ______ Rojas Pinilla gave amnesties to those inmates incarcerated for acts of terrorism in the name of the Gómez regime.
  52. Complete the sentence about Colombian conflict with the correct year: The origin of the armed conflict in Colombia goes back to ______, with agrarian disputes over the Sumapaz and Tequendama regions.
  53. Complete the sentence about National Liberation Army with the correct year: The National Liberation Army was founded in ______, by Fabio Vásquez Castaño and other Colombian rebels trained in Cuba.
  54. Complete the sentence about National Liberation Army with the correct year: El Cura Pérez presided over the National Liberation Army as one of its most recognized figures until he died of hepatitis B…
  55. Complete the sentence about National Liberation Army with the correct year: On 24 July ______ the ELN apparently abducted Misael Vacca Ramírez, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Yopal, though their reasons…
  56. Complete the sentence about Medellín Cartel with the correct year: In ______, there was a military coup in Chile which led to a strong crackdown on Chilean drug traffickers.
  57. Complete the sentence about Pablo Escobar with the correct year: In the ______ Colombian parliamentary election, Escobar was elected as an alternate member of the Chamber of Representatives as part of…
  58. Complete the sentence about Pablo Escobar with the correct year: In ______, Escobar escaped and went into hiding when authorities attempted to move him to a more standard holding facility, leading to…
  59. Complete the sentence about Pablo Escobar with the correct year: As a result, the Medellín Cartel crumbled, and in ______, Escobar was killed in his hometown by the Colombian National Police, a day af…
  60. Complete the sentence about Pablo Escobar with the correct year: Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was born on 1 December ______ in Rionegro, Antioquia Department.
  61. Complete the sentence about Cali Cartel with the correct year: According to a report by the DEA in ______, the Rodriguez brothers, Miguel and Gilberto, were the most successful and powerful of the car…
  62. Complete the sentence about Álvaro Uribe with the correct year: In August ______, Uribe was appointed vice-chairman of the UN panel investigating the Gaza flotilla raid.
  63. Complete the sentence about Juan Manuel Santos with the correct year: In ______, Santos was appointed by President César Gaviria Trujillo as Colombia's first Minister of Foreign Trade.
  64. Complete the sentence about Juan Manuel Santos with the correct year: In ______, he was appointed by President Andrés Pastrana Arango as the 64th Minister of Finance and Public Credit.
  65. Complete the sentence about Colombian peace process with the correct year: Widespread public disillusionment with the peace process contributed to the election of Álvaro Uribe in ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about 2016 Colombian peace agreement referendum with the correct year: On 5 October ______, thousands of citizens took to the streets across 14 cities to protest against the refe…
  67. Complete the sentence about Iván Duque Márquez with the correct year: On 10 December ______, Duque was nominated by his party as its candidate for President of Colombia.
  68. Complete the sentence about Gustavo Petro with the correct year: Petro was born on 19 April ______ in the municipality of Ciénaga de Oro, Córdoba, Colombia.
  69. Complete the sentence about Andrés Pastrana with the correct year: During his father's presidency, he was a high school student at Colegio San Carlos where he served as president of the student counci…
  70. Complete the sentence about Andrés Pastrana with the correct year: In ______, he formally began his political career by gaining a seat on the local Bogotá council.
  71. Complete the sentence about Andrés Pastrana with the correct year: In ______, he stood for the presidency against the Liberal candidate, Ernesto Samper, and lost by only 2% in the second round.
  72. Complete the sentence about César Gaviria with the correct year: During his tenure as president, he summoned the Constituent Assembly of Colombia that enacted the Constitution of ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Ernesto Samper with the correct year: Ernesto was born on 3 August ______ in Bogotá, to Andrés Samper Gnecco and Helena Pizano Pardo.
  74. Complete the sentence about Ernesto Samper with the correct year: In ______, he became a professor of law and economics at his alma mater, the Pontifical Xavierian University.
  75. Complete the sentence about Ernesto Samper with the correct year: Samper unsuccessfully ran for the Liberal Party's nomination for president in ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Ernesto Samper with the correct year: In ______, Samper was wounded by 11 bullets during the assassination of Patriotic Union leader José Antequera, leaving Samper hospital…
  77. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ he obtained a PhD in economics from Boston University.
  78. Complete the sentence about Virgilio Barco Vargas with the correct year: Barco is the grandson of Colombian General Virgilio Barco Martinez, who developed one of the country's largest oil concessions…
  79. Complete the sentence about Belisario Betancur with the correct year: Betancur was born in the Morro de la Paila district of the town of Amagá, Antioquia, in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Belisario Betancur with the correct year: In ______, Betancur graduated in jurisprudence and obtained a degree in law and economics.
  81. Complete the sentence about Belisario Betancur with the correct year: The controversial Palace of Justice siege occurred in late ______, less than a year before the end of his presidential term.
  82. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Colombia with the correct year: One of the factors which made constitutional change difficult was that the ______ Constitution could only be amended by the…
  83. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Colombia with the correct year: The constitutional reforms which, among other things, set-up the National Front, were approved by a national plebiscite in _…
  84. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Colombia with the correct year: On May 5, ______, the Supreme Court of Justice ruled the project unconstitutional.
  85. Complete the sentence about Chamber of Representatives of Colombia with the correct year: If as a result of the above a territorial constituency should lose one or more seats, it keeps the number of s…
  86. Complete the sentence about President of Colombia with the correct year: The power of the presidency has grown substantially since the first president, Simón Bolívar, took office in ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about President of Colombia with the correct year: The first president, General Simón Bolívar, took office in ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Constitutional Court of Colombia with the correct year: The court was established by the Constitution of ______, alongside the Supreme Court of Justice, Council of State, a…
  89. Complete the sentence about Supreme Court of Colombia with the correct year: In ______, the Gran Colombia was dissolved and the Republic of New Granada was formed.
  90. Complete the sentence about Politics of Colombia with the correct year: The ______ constitution reestablished the position of the Vice President of Colombia, who is elected on the same ticket as the p…
  91. Complete the sentence about Politics of Colombia with the correct year: Guidelines and the general structure for Colombia's administration of justice are set out in Law 270 of March 7, ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about Colombian Liberal Party with the correct year: The election victory of independent candidate Álvaro Uribe in ______ put an end to dominance of two party politics in Colombi…
  93. Complete the sentence about Colombian Liberal Party with the correct year: The party was founded in ______ and, in opposition to the Colombian Conservative Party, became one of the two main political…
  94. Complete the sentence about Colombian Conservative Party with the correct year: The party was formally established in ______ by Mariano Ospina Rodríguez and José Eusebio Caro.
  95. Complete the sentence about Colombian Conservative Party with the correct year: Lawyer José Ignacio de Márquez was elected president of Colombia in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Colombian Conservative Party with the correct year: Alcántara was succeeded in office by General Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, whose supporters created the Liberal Party in _…
  97. Complete the sentence about Colombian Conservative Party with the correct year: In the newspaper La Civilización of October 4, ______, Ospina and Caro published the conservative program that became th…
  98. Complete the sentence about Democratic Center with the correct year: Uribe was particularly critical of Santos's peace talks with the far-left guerrilla group FARC starting in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Democratic Center with the correct year: In the ______ congressional elections, the Democratic Centre won 20 seats in the Senate and 19 seats in the Chamber of Representati…
  100. Complete the sentence about Colombian peso with the correct year: One peso is divided into one hundred centavos; however, because of high inflation in the 1970s and 1980s, Colombia ceased issuing cent…

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