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Venezuela

1641 – 2026

Country in South America

  1. Boundary Treaty of 1941 between Colombia and Venezuela

    5 April 1941

    The Colombia–Venezuela Boundary Treaty of 1941, officially the Border Demarcation Agreement and Navigation of the Common Rivers between Colombia and Venezuela, and unofficially the López de Mesa-Gil Borges Treaty, was an agreement signed between the governments of Colombia and Venezuela on the land border limits on April 5, 1941, in Colombian city of Villa del Rosario, Norte de Santander, by the Ministers of Foreign Relations of Venezuela, Esteban Gil Borges, and Colombia, Luis López de Mesa. After almost 60 years of negotiations on the demarcation of the Venezuelan–Colombian border…

  2. 1945 Venezuelan coup d'état

    18 October 1945 – October 1945

    The 1945 Venezuelan coup d'état took place on 18 October 1945, when the president Isaías Medina Angarita was overthrown by a combination of a military rebellion and a popular movement led by Democratic Action. The Medina government discovered the conspiracy by the military to overthrow Medina and arrested Marcos Pérez Jiménez.

  3. 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état

    24 November 1948 – November 1948

    The 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état took place on 24 November 1948, when Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez overthrew the elected president, Rómulo Gallegos, who had been elected in the 1947 Venezuelan general election (generally believed to be the country's first honest election) and had taken office in February 1948. Chalbaud had been Gallegos' minister of defense.

  4. 1958 Venezuelan coup d'état

    23 January 1958 – January 1958

    The 1958 Venezuelan coup d'état took place on 23 January 1958, when the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez was overthrown. A transition government under first Adm.

  5. El Barcelonazo

    1961

    El Barcelonazo was an attempted coup d'état against President Rómulo Betancourt's government that occurred in the Pedro María Freites Barracks in the city of Barcelona, Anzoátegui State on 26 June 1961.

  6. El Carupanazo

    1962

    El Carupanazo was a short-lived military rebellion against the government of Rómulo Betancourt, in which rebel military officers commanding the Third Marine Infantry Battalion and the 77th National Guard Detachment took over the city of Carúpano in May 1962. The rebellion was followed a month later by another in Puerto Cabello, El Porteñazo.

  7. El Porteñazo

    6 June 1962

    El Porteñazo (2 June 1962 – 6 June 1962) was a short-lived Communist military rebellion against the government of Rómulo Betancourt in Venezuela, in which rebels attempted to take over the city of Puerto Cabello, located ~75 miles (121 km) West of the capital Caracas. The rebellion was on a substantially larger scale than that of El Carupanazo a month earlier.

  8. Geneva Agreement (1966)

    17 February 1966

    The Agreement to Resolve the Controversy between Venezuela and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland over the Frontier between Venezuela and British Guiana, better known as the Geneva Agreement, is a treaty between Venezuela and the United Kingdom, along with its colony of British Guiana (which would soon receive its independence), that was signed in Geneva, Switzerland, on 17 February 1966. The treaty outlines the steps taken to resolve the controversy between Venezuela and the United Kingdom, arising from Venezuela's contention to the UN in 1962 that the 1899…

  9. 1967 Caracas earthquake

    30 July 1967

    The 1967 Caracas earthquake occurred in Venezuela on 29 July at 8:00 p.m (UTC−04:00), with its epicenter being 20 km (12 mi) from the Venezuelan capital Caracas. It lasted 35 seconds and heavily affected areas such as Altamira, Los Palos Grandes, and Litoral Central, and it was recorded at 6.6 on the moment magnitude scale.

  10. Pan Am Flight 217

    12 December 1968

    Pan Am Flight 217 was a Boeing 707 that crashed near Caracas, Venezuela while on a flight from New York City on December 12, 1968. Though pilot error was to blame, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded the probable cause was undetermined.

  11. Rupununi Uprising

    2 January 1969

    The Rupununi uprising was a secessionist insurrection in Guyana that began on 2 January 1969, led by cattle ranchers who sought to control 22,300 square miles (58,000 km2) of land. Occurring less than two years after Guyana's independence from the United Kingdom, it constituted the country's earliest and most severe test of statehood and social solidarity.

  12. Viasa Flight 742

    16 March 1969

    Viasa Flight 742 was an international, scheduled passenger flight from Caracas, Venezuela to Miami International Airport, United States with an intermediate stopover in Maracaibo, Venezuela that crashed on 16 March 1969. After taking off on the Maracaibo to Miami leg, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 hit a series of power lines before crashing into the La Trinidad section of Maracaibo.

  13. Air France Flight 212 (1969)

    3 December 1969

    Air France Flight 212 was a scheduled passenger flight from Santiago International Airport, was flying to Paris, France via Lima, Peru; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Bogota, Colombia; Caracas, Venezuela; Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe; and Lisbon, Portugal operated by a Boeing 707, registration F-BHSZ, that crashed on 3 December 1969. All 62 people on board were killed.

  14. Vindicator revolution

    1978

    The Revindicating Revolution was a civil war in Venezuela between supporters and opponents of Antonio Guzmán Blanco, fought between December 1878 and February 1879.

  15. Legalist Revolution

    1982

    The Legalist Revolution was a civil war in Venezuela that was caused by the "Continuity movement" of President Raimundo Andueza Palacios who wanted to perpetuate himself in power through a constitutional reform. Although it was constitutionally stipulated that his term would end on 20 February 1892, Andueza planned to reform the Constitution in order to prolong his stay in power for two more years, which is why he was called a Continuationist.

  16. Massacre of El Amparo

    1988

    The Massacre of El Amparo was a massacre of 14 fishermen which took place near the village of El Amparo, in Venezuela's western state of Apure, on 29 October 1988.

  17. Caracazo

    1989

    The Caracazo is the name given to the wave of protests, riots, and looting that started on 27 February 1989 in the Venezuelan city of Guarenas, spreading to Caracas and surrounding towns following austerity measures from President Carlos Andrés Pérez. Weeklong clashes resulted in numerous deaths, with estimates ranging from hundreds to thousands, attributed largely to security forces and military involvement, according to various reports.

  18. 1997 Cariaco earthquake

    9 July 1997

    The 1997 Cariaco earthquake occurred on July 9 at 15:24:14 local time with a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). With its epicenter along the El Pilar Fault near Cariaco, Venezuela, at least 81 people were killed and over 500 were injured.

  19. Bolivarian Revolution

    2 February 1999

    The Bolivarian Revolution (Spanish: Revolución bolivariana) is a social revolution and ongoing political process in Venezuela that was started by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, the founder of the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) and later the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), and his successors Nicolás Maduro and Delcy Rodríguez. The Bolivarian Revolution is named after Simón Bolívar, an early 19th-century Venezuelan revolutionary leader, prominent in the Spanish American wars of independence in achieving the independence of most of northern South America from Spanish rule.

  20. Vargas tragedy

    December 1999 – 21 December 1999

    The Vargas tragedy was a natural disaster that occurred in Vargas State (today La Guaira), Venezuela, on 15 December 1999 (over the course of 10 days), when torrential rains caused flash floods and debris flows that killed tens of thousands of people, destroyed thousands of homes, and led to the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure. According to relief workers, the neighborhood of Los Corales was buried under 3 meters (9.8 ft) of mud and a high percentage of homes were simply swept into the ocean.