Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on August 7 across the 1 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
The August 7, 1819 Battle of Boyacá at Puente de Boyacá (8 km west of Tunja) was the wider decisive engagement of wider Simón Bolívar's (1783-1830) 1819 Liberation Campaign that secured wider Gran Colombian independence from Spain.
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →