1955 in Colombia

Incumbents

• President: Gustavo Rojas Pinilla.
• Vice President: N/A.

Events

Ongoing

• La Violencia.

January

• 9 January – The National Action Movement, 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.
• 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" which took place in the central town of Villarrica in Tolima Department.

Births

• 25 January – Piedad Córdoba, politician
• 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 as wife of Pedro Nel Ospina.