195 years ago today, on December 17, 1830 (November 3, 1830 lunar calendar), Bolivar, the leader of the South American War of Independence, died. Simon Bolivar Bolivar, the leader of the South American Colonial War of Independence. Born in 1783 in Caracas, Venezuela, to a family of wealthy Spanish immigrants. His father was a colonel in the army. As a teenager, he studied under the famous scholar Simon Rodriguez and was deeply influenced by the European Enlightenment. He later studied in Spain, Italy, France and other places. At the age of 24, he returned to China and participated in the leadership of the Caracas Uprising in 1810, establishing the First Republic of Venezuela. Soon the revolution failed and he moved to New Granada. In 1813, he led an army into Venezuela and occupied Caracas. In January of the following year, he announced the establishment of the Second Republic, served as the head, and was awarded the title of liberator. In July of the same year, he was defeated by the Spanish colonial army and went into exile in Jamaica and Haiti. In 1816, he returned to Venezuela and announced reforms such as the liberation of slaves and the allocation of land to soldiers, which gradually gained the support of the people. In 1819, he led the army across the Andes into New Granada, defeated the main force of the Western army in Poiaca, established Gran Colombia, and was elected president. In 1821, he entered northern Venezuela and established the Third Republic after the victory in the Battle of Carabobo. In 1822, he liberated the province of Quito (now Ecuador). In 1824, he defeated the Western army in the two battles of Junin and Ayacucho and liberated the whole territory of Peru. In 1825, the Republic of Bolivia (named after his surname) was established in Upper Peru, ending Spanish rule in South America. In 1826, the first Pan-American Conference was held in Panama, advocating the establishment of an alliance of Latin American In March 1830, when Gran Colombia was divided, he was forced to resign and died in Santa Marta on December 17 of the same year. Bolivar in uniform