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Conflict Americas

Thousand Days' War (Colombia)

1899 CE – 1902 CE · 3 years

A devastating civil war between Colombian Liberal and Conservative parties that killed approximately 100,000 people and wrecked the economy. The war's chaos directly enabled the U.S.-backed secession of Panama in 1903.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Colombian Liberal Party
  • Colombian Conservative Party (Government)

Key moments

Defining events in the Thousand Days' War (Colombia).

  1. 1900 Battle of Palonegro
  2. 1899 Battle of Peralonso
  3. 1902 Battle of Aguadulce

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1899 CE and 1902 CE.

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And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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