January 1 - 13 FARC members are killed in an airstrike by the Colombian military.[1]
January 19 - A drug lord named Amaury Smith Pomare, who had long been wanted by the police, is arrested at his villa on the Atlantic coast of Honduras.[2]
January 20 - FARC rebels dynamite two southern oil pipelines and planted a bomb on the top coal exporter's northern railway after the end of a rebel ceasefire.[3]
January 22 - FARC rebels dynamite two southern oil pipelines and planted a bomb on the top coal exporter's northern railway after the end of a rebel ceasefire.[4]
February
February 9 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes southwest Colombia causing major disruption to the region and injuring at least 8 people.[5][6]
February 25 - Coffee growers of the country start a labour strike protesting the situations in which coffee growing is practiced.[7]
March
March 8 - The strike of the coffee growers is over.[8]
June 10 - The Venezuelan government arrests nine Colombian right-wing paramilitaries over a plot to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro.[10]
July
July 20 - 17 government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.[11]
July 22 - The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela meet to resolve a high-level diplomatic dispute.[12]
August
August 19 - An agrarian strike is planned for today in Colombia to demand labor rights.[citation needed]
October
October 12 - A building collapses in Colombia, killing 1, with 10 still missing.[13]
November
November 9 - A gunman kills eight people in a bar in Cali.[14]
December
December 9 - Gustavo Petro, mayor of Bogotá, is removed from office and banned from re-taking it for fifteen years, due to a failing city cleaning policy promoted by him.[15]
December 14 - A mass protest is held in Bogotá in protest against the unseating of Mayor Gustavo Petro.[16]
