1955 in Colombia

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See also:	Other events of 1955 Timeline of Colombian history

Events of 1955 in Colombia .

Incumbents

• President: Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1953–1957).
• Vice President: N/A. ^{[n 1]}

Events

Ongoing

• La Violencia.

January

• 9 January – The National Action Movement (Movimiento de Acción Nacional, MAN), the political party of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, is created. ^[1]

May

• 21 May – The 1955 Vuelta a Colombia  [ es ] begins.

June

• 12 June – The 1955 Vuelta a Colombia  [ es ] ends, Ramón Hoyos comes in first place overall.

August

• 4 August – The newspaper El Tiempo is closed. ^[2]

November

• 12 November – The 1955 Señorita Colombia  [ es ] is held.
• 30 November – The internal debt of Colombia reaches 880 million pesos, a rise from 489 million at the end of 1954. ^[3]

Uncertain

• Guerra de Villarica (Tolima). ^{[4] [5]}
• Creation of Mito Magazine. ^[1]
• Esperanza Gallón Domínguez Elegida Señorita Colombia 1955. ^[6]
• Independiente Medellín wins the 1955 Campeonato Profesional. ^[7]
• Liberal and Communist guerrillas form an alliance. ^[8]
• Colombia and Czechoslovakia establish consular relations. ^[3]
• Rojas Pinilla orders a military offensive against rearmed peasants, triggering a confrontation known as the "Guerra de Villarrica" (War of Villarrica) which took place in the central town of Villarrica in Tolima Department. ^[9]

Births

• 25 January – Piedad Córdoba, politician (d. 2024)
• 15 March – Andrés París, guerrilla and politician
• 23 March – Rosa Navarro, mixed media artist
• 9 May – Ernesto Báez, paramilitary leader

Deaths

• 12 May – Carolina Vásquez Uribe, 85, first lady of Colombia (1922-1926) as wife of Pedro Nel Ospina (b. 1869).

Notes

1. The Office of the Vice President was officially abolished by the 1905 National Constituent Assembly on 28 March 1905, and it was only reinstituted after the ratification of the new 1991 Constitution and filled in the following presidential elections in 1994.

References

1. "SIGLO XX EN EL TIEMPO. AÑO 1955". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 16 November 1999. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
2. "Cierre de El Tiempo en 1955: 10 datos que no conocían". Radio Nacional.co. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
3. "PROBABLE DEVELOPMENTS IN COLOMBIA". Office of the Historian of the United States. 10 April 1956. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
4. Quintero Reyes, Juan Luis (19 August 2020). "De Corea a Villarrica: el aprendizaje del Batallón Colombia en la Guerra de Corea y su puesta en práctica en Villarrica, Tolima. 1951-1955". Universidad del Rosario. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
5. Villegas, Miguel Ángel Beltrán (16 December 2019). "La dictadura de Rojas Pinilla (1953-1957) y la construcción del "enemigo interno" en Colombia: el caso de los estudiantes y campesinos". Revista Universitaria de Historia Militar (in Spanish). 8 (17): 20–47. doi:10.53351/ruhm.v8i17.545 (inactive 1 July 2025). ISSN   2254-6111 . Retrieved 28 April 2022.
6. "Srta. Colombia® 1955 Esperanza Gallón Domínguez | Señorita Colombia 2019". www.srtacolombia.org. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
7. "Colombia 1955". www.rsssf.com. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
8. von der Walde, Erna; Burbano, Carmen (25 September 2007). "Violence in Colombia: A Timeline". NACLA.
9. "Colombia: Fifty years of violence". ReliefWeb. 31 May 1999. Retrieved 19 March 2025.

External links

• Media related to 1955 in Colombia at Wikimedia Commons