15th Century
| Year | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1450 | Meicuchuca is Zipa of Bacatá (to 1470) | |
| 1470 | Saguamanchica is Zipa of Bacatá (to 1490) | |
| 1490 | Nemequene is Zipa of Bacatá (to 1514) | |
| Quemuenchatocha is Zaque of Hunza (to 1537) | ||
| 1498 | Spanish explorer Juan de la Cosa landed on what is today called Cabo de la Vela (Cape of Sails) in the Guajira Peninsula | |
| 1500 | Rodrigo de Bastidas discovers the Colombian Caribbean littoral. |
Read more about this topic: Timeline Of Colombian History
Famous quotes containing the word century:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)