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See also:	Other events of 1951; Timeline of Colombian history;

Events of 1951 in Colombia.

Incumbents

President:
- Laureano Eleuterio Gómez Castro (1950–1953).
- Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez (1951–1953).^{[n 1]}
Vice President: N/A.^{[n 2]}

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.

May

9 May –The 1951 population census of the state of Antioquia is held.^[1]
24 May – La Gran Colombia University.

June

15 June – Colombian Battalion is deployed to Busan.

August

25 August – Ecopetrol is founded as Empresa Colombiana de Petróleos S.A. (English:Colombian Petroleum Company).^[2]

September

16 September – 1951 Colombian parliamentary election.

October

25 October – The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) disaffiliates Colombia.^[3]
28 October – President Gomez is hospitalized after having a heart attack, which leaves him partially paralyzed for the rest of his life.^[4]^[5]

November

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

Uncertain

The 1951 Campeonato Profesional is won by the Millonarios.

Births

January

6 January – Gustavo Zalamea, artist (d. 2011).

February

6 February – Darío Gómez, musician (d. 2022).
11 February – Luis Eduardo Garzón, politician.

March

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

April

22 April – José Fernando Castro, lawyer and politician (d. 2008).

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 (d. 1990).

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 (d. 1998).
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 (d. 2021).
29 September – Andrés Caicedo, writer (d. 1977).

October

15 October – Miguel Alfonso Murillo, actor (d. 2017).
28 October – Rodrigo Obregón, actor (d. 2019).

November

23 November – Margarita Londoño Vélez, writer (d. 2021).

December

31 December – Fernando Jaramillo Paredes, orchestra director and musician (d. 2014).

Deaths

8 October José – Joaquín Casas Castañeda, politician and former Minister of National Education (b. 1866).
unknown date – Cesar Uribe Piedrahita, doctor and writer (b. 1897)

Notes

^ Gómez would step down on 5 November 1951 due to health concerns, leaving Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez as acting president until the 1953 coup.
^ The Office of the Vice President was officially abolished by the 1905 National Constituent Assembly on 28 March 1905, and it was only reinstituted after the ratification of the new 1991 Constitution and filled in the following presidential elections in 1994.