Cartagena

Region: The Americas · Coordinates: 10.398, -75.493 · 6 events

Events

YearSourceAccount
AD 1536Cieza de León, Chronicle of PeruCesar left Cartagena with sixty Spaniards, crossed mountains and rivers, reached the Guaca region, and gathered gold worth 30,000 pesos from a tomb.
AD 1812Letters of Simón BolívarLetter written at Cartagena (27 November 1812) — (to the Sovereign Congress of New Granada).
AD 1815Letters of Simón BolívarLetter written at Cartagena (8 May 1815) — to His Excellency the President of the United Provinces of the
AD 1827Letters of Simón BolívarLetter written at Cartagena (11 July 1827) — a letter to the British Foreign Secretary Canning. [Addressee: Excellent Sir Jorge Canning.]
AD 1830Letters of Simón BolívarLetter written at Cartagena (24 June 1830) — to His Excellency the President of the Republic, Don Joaquín
AD 1830Letters of Simón BolívarLetter written at Cartagena (2 September 1830) — replies to a letter that came by the Jamaica mail packet. [Addressee: Gabriel Camacho.]
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