6 ATLASES
History of Venezuela in maps
Venezuela as it appears in 6 interactive history atlases, from 1750 to 2015: Venezuela. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Venezuela before it was Venezuela? The sections below follow this land through every era covered by the Maps of History atlases: who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed. Each line links to the dated map. Modern borders serve as an approximation, as each atlas says on the map itself.
Venezuela · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Agrarian economy |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Venezuela · Age of Revolutions
Venezuela’s first republic, founded in 1811, fell to earthquake and war. In the years of “war to the death,” Boves’s royalist llaneros and then Páez’s patriot llaneros fought a civil war within the struggle for independence. Carabobo freed Venezuela in 1821, and caudillos inherited it. Bolívar’s birthplace gave the age its greatest liberator, as well as a warning about what liberation wars leave behind.
| Colonial possessions — the opening position | |
| Republics & revolutionary states |
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Venezuela · Haiti and Kenya independence
The French and Haitian revolutions inspired an early revolt in Venezuela. In 1795 José Leonardo Chirino led free Black and enslaved workers at Coro. Two decades later Pétion armed Bolívar at Les Cayes in 1816, and Bolívar decreed emancipation at Carúpano that June; the map’s arrow records the bargain. Venezuela secured independence by 1821, though slavery was not abolished until 1854.
| Under colonial rule — the opening position | |
| Other states and societies |
HAITI AND KENYA INDEPENDENCE: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Venezuela · WWI
Venezuela · Cold War
| US-aligned states — the opening position |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Venezuela · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Refused: women excluded; ERA never ratified — the opening position | |
| Right won in law | |
| No reform yet / outside this story | |
| Right won in law |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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