Historical Figure

Simón Bolívar

Venezuelan statesman and military officer (1783–1830)

About Simón Bolívar

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela to independence from the Spanish Empire. He is known colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator of America.Wikipedia ↗

Associated Events

Independence1804 CE – 1830 CE

Latin American Independence Movements

A wave of independence movements liberated most of Latin America from Spanish and Portuguese colonial rule, beginning with Haiti's revolution (1804, the world's only successful slave revolt) and ending with the independence of mainland Spanish colonies by 1830.