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Pre-Columbian time:
The territory is inhabited by the cunas
cunas
people (Gulf
of Urabá and Lower Atrato), chocoes or citaráes in the Higher Atrato,
noanamáes (San Juan River) and baudóes.
1510 until 1524:
Rodrigo de Bastidas explores the
territory. Martín Fernandez de Enciso founds the first city of European hands in
Terre Firma:
Santa Maria the ancient of Darién,
destroyed shortly after, by the natives of the area.
September
25, 1513:
Europeans discover the
Pacific Ocean, called by them Southern Sea.
1567: The Capitan Andrés Gómez Hernández
obtained documents from the Spanish crown to create a formal government
for the administration of the chocoes, with the denomination of
"Government of Chocó, Dabaibe and Baeza Valley," government which
wouldn’t go further from a paper, because the beneficiary died in
Cartagena after arriving from Spain with his entitlement.
1573:
Melchor Velásquez de Valdenebro, funded a military camp by the name of
Our Lady of the Consolation of Toro, under the jurisdiction of Cartago,
later he would rendered it to the native territory of the tootumas,
converting it in the first Spanish town in Chocó, which in reality was the
tip of the spear for future incursions to other territories yet unknown.
1594:
The Spanish Crown incorporates Chocó to the Government of Popayán in order
to facilitate the military operations in the region.
1728: Barûle, a slave, leads the greatest
insurrection in Chocó with the help of the Mina brothers: Antonio
and Mateo. He founded Tadó Palenque where he is
proclaimed King. It's conformed by 120 Cimarrons.
February
18, 1728:
Battle between Cimarrons and the Spanish army. The unprepared
HM King Barûle and the Mina brothers loose and are executed by the
lieutenant Tres Palacios Mier.
September 28, 1726:
By a
Royal decree, the Province of Chocó
is formed.
Uniting the tenancies of Nóvita, Citará (Quibdó) and Baudó; designating Nóvita as the Capital under the command of Francisco Ibero, it's first
Governor.
1795:
Agustina, an abused slave by her master Miguel Gómez whom
wanted her to have an abortion, denounces him before Judge Alvarez
Pino who ruled against her. In retaliation, she burned several properties
from which today it is the
municipality of
Tadó.
1825:
By means of a local people's signed declaration, with the name of San
Francisco of Quibdó, the colonist Francisco Berro gives the site a
town status, making it the Head of the District on March 30, after being
designated Capital on the 15.
1839 until
1840:
Nóvita becomes the Capital of Chocó, due to a fire in Quibdó, which would
be Capital again at the end of this period.
1867:
Is born the poet, academic and chocoan leader
Manuel Saturio Valencia.
1906: Creation of the Intendancy of Chocó,
separating it from the
Cauca
Department
and uniting the provinces of
San Juan
and Atrato.
1907: Is born in Neguá
Diego
Luís Córdoba, great leader who fought
for the creation of the Department of Chocó, the recognition of the right
for black communities to have an education and the appreciation of their
value in the Colombian society. On May 7th
of
that same year
in Quibdó,
Manuel Saturio Valencia
Mena is
executed (the last Colombian sentenced to the capital punishment in the
country), accused of attacking the interests of the chocoan white society.
1908
until 1910:
Chocó was briefly named Department of Quibdó by the decree # 1 of January
1, 1908, having Eduardo Ferrer as it’s only Governor and was officially
enforced until the decree # 65 of December 1909, which disposed that after
April 1, 1910 Chocó would return to be an Intendancy.
1930:
Diego
Luís Córdoba
creates the Liberal Youth
of University Students.
November 3, 1947:
(Decree 13) Creation of the Department of Chocó with it's Capital in the city of
Quibdó.
May 1st, 1964: Dies in
Mexico City
Diego
Luís Córdoba, one of the most important
black community's human rights
and equality
fighter during the twentieth century in
Colombia.
1966:
A massive fire in Quibdó destroyed the commercial area and the small
remaining traditional white sector, as well as part of the rest of the
city.
1967: The Folkloric Group of Dances and Chants from the
Colombian
National University (Integrated by Chocoans) achieves the first place in the in the First
Latin-American Festival of the University Song
in
Viña del Mar
(Chile).
1968:
Quibdó: facing its reconstruction
towards the future after the fire.
1977: UNESCO declares the
National
Katíos Park as Humanity’s Patrimony.
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