1951 in Colombia

Incumbents

• President:
• * Laureano Gómez.
• * Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez .
• [Vice President of Colombia|President of Colombia|Vice President]: N/A.

Events

Ongoing

• La Violencia.

January

• 8 January – The club Deportes Quindío founded in Armenia.
• 5–17 January – The very first Vuelta a Colombia is held, beginning in Bogotá on the 5th.On the 17th, Efraín Forero Triviño of Cundinamarca wins.

March

• 25 March – The Colombian government announced import controls on over 2000 items, including cars and other luxuries, to suppress black market trading.

May

• 9 May –The 1951 population census of the state of Antioquia is held.
• 24 May – La Gran Colombia University founded.

June

• 15 June – Colombian Battalion is deployed to Busan.

August

• 25 August – Ecopetrol is founded as Empresa Colombiana de Petróleos S.A..

September

• 16 September – 1951 Colombian parliamentary election.

October

• 25 October – The International Federation of Association Football disaffiliates Colombia.
• 28 October – President Gomez is hospitalized after having a heart attack, which leaves him partially paralyzed for the rest of his life.

November

• 5 November – Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez becomes acting President of Colombia.

Uncertain

• The 1951 Campeonato Profesional is won by the Millonarios F.C.

Births

January

• 6 January – Gustavo Zalamea, artist.

February

• 6 February – Darío Gómez, musician.
• 11 February – Luis Eduardo Garzón, politician.

March

• 12 March – Diego Umaña, footballer.
• 17 March – Carmenza Duque, singer and actress.

April

• 22 April – José Fernando Castro, lawyer and politician.

May

• 8 May – Ricardo Tobón Restrepo, archbishop of Medellín.
• 21 May – William Vinasco Chamorro, sports journalist.

June

• 6 June – Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, politician and guerilla.

August

• 1 August – Constanza Duque, actress.
• 10 August – Juan Manuel Santos, politician and 32nd President of Colombia.
• 23 August – Cholo Valderrama, joropo musician and songwriter.
• 24 August – Hélmer Herrera, drug trafficker.
• 30 August – Wilson Saoko, musician.

September

• 18 September – Poncho Zuleta, vallenato musician.
• 23 September – Carlos Holmes Trujillo, politician, lawyer, and former Minister of National Defense.
• 29 September – Andrés Caicedo, writer.

October

• 15 October – Miguel Alfonso Murillo, actor.
• 28 October – Rodrigo Obregón, actor.

November

• 23 November – Margarita Londoño Vélez, writer.

December

• 31 December – Fernando Jaramillo Paredes, orchestra director and musician.

Deaths

• 9 January – Julio Torres Mayorga, musician and songwriter
• 8 October – Joaquín Casas Castañeda, politician and former Minister of National Education.
• unknown date – Cesar Uribe Piedrahita, doctor and writer