Renaissance · South America · Politics

1538

Bogota Founded

1538

The Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada founded the city of Santa Fe de Bogota in the high grasslands of the Muisca kingdom, in what would become Colombia. He had marched up the Magdalena River searching for El Dorado and settled instead for a capital built on looted gold and conquered maize fields.

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Before and after in South America

Before: 1537: Diego de Almagro Invades Chile
After: May 21, 1541: Pizarro Assassinated in Lima

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1537: Cusco Drops the Encomienda
After: 1540: Henry VIII Divorces Anne of Cleves

Era

Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Bogotá