Events of 1955 in Colombia.
Incumbents
President: Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1953–1957). Vice President: N/A.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.
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.
May
21 May – The begins.
June
12 June – The ends, Ramón Hoyos comes in first place overall.
August
4 August – The newspaper El Tiempo is closed.
November
12 November – The is held. 30 November – The internal debt of Colombia reaches 880 million pesos, a rise from 489 million at the end of 1954.
Uncertain Guerra de Villarica (Tolima). Creation of Mito Magazine. Esperanza Gallón Domínguez Elegida Señorita Colombia 1955. Independiente Medellín wins the 1955 Campeonato Profesional. Liberal and Communist guerrillas form an alliance. Colombia and Czechoslovakia establish consular relations. 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.
Births
25 January – Piedad Córdoba, politician (d. 2024) 15 March – Andrés París, guerrilla and politician 18 March – Pabla Flores, bullerengue singer 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). 24 September – Eusebio Ochoa, musician and composer (b. 1880)
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