The military has seized power three times in Colombia's history: in 1830, after the dissolution of Great Colombia ; again in 1854 ( by General José María Melo ); and from 1953 to 1957 ( under General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ).

* 1824 – Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.

General Antonio José de Sucre, Commander In Chief, División del Sur

After a campaign that included the near destruction of Guayaquil, the forces of Gran Colombia, under the leadership of Sucre and Venezuelan General Juan José Flores, proved victorious.

The most significant figure of the era, however, was General José María Urbina, who first came to power in 1851 through a coup d ' état, remained in the presidency until 1856, and then continued to dominate the political scene until 1860.

José Graziano da Silva, FAO Director General

Madero despatched troops under General José González Salas to put down the rebellion, but they were initially defeated by Orozco's troops.

The U. S. United Fruit Company ( UFC ) started becoming a major force in Guatemala in 1901, during the long presidencies of Manuel José Estrada Cabrera and General Jorge Ubico.

* 1854 – In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General José María Yáñez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.

* 1817 – An army of 5, 423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.

" Frémont nearly provoked a battle with Mexican General José Castro near Monterey, California.

However, the Montoneros waited until after the death of Perón in July 1974 to react, with the exception of the assassination of José Ignacio Rucci, general secretary of the CGT ( General Confederation of Labour ) on 25 September 1973, and some other military actions.

In September 1830, under the guidance of General José Domingo Espinar, the local military commander who rebelled against the nation's central government in response to his being transferred to another command, Panama separated from the Republic of Colombia and requested that general Simón Bolívar take direct command of the Isthmus Department.

Spain | Spanish Prime Minister of Spain | Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero addressing the General Assembly in New York, 20 September 2005

* January 1 – Manuel José Arce, Revolutionary General and first President of The Federal Republic of Central America.

* October 7 – General Juan José Torres becomes the new President of Bolivia.

* July 9: Battle of Alpens ( Third Carlist War )- Campaigning in Catalonia, a Government column under General José Cabrinety was ambushed at Alpens, 15 miles east of Berga, by Carlist forces under General Francisco Savalls.

* December 22 – Battle of Bocairente-Third Carlist War-Campaigning in Valenica, Spanish Republican General Valeriano Weyler is attacked at Bocairente, northwest of Alcoy, by a greatly superior Carlist force under General José Santés.

The newly-appointed Carlist commander General José Pérula was heavily defeated and withdrew and soon afterwards Quesada entered Victoria in triumph.

* January 8 – José Trinidad Cabañas, a Honduran General, President and National Hero ( b. 1805 )

* July 27, 1822 – Simón Bolívar and General José de San Martín meet in Guayaquil.

Frustration provoked an aborted Liberal revolt in 1891 that produced changes in 1893, when war minister General Juan B. Egusquiza overthrew Caballero's chosen president, Juan G. González.

During the transition to full secularization, Father José González Rubio remained at the Mission as chief administrator for the church, while José de Jesús Vallejo ( brother of General Mariano G. Vallejo ) was appointed civil administrator.

In 1974 at its 26th Congress in Suresnes, Felipe González was elected Secretary General, replacing Rodolfo Llopis Ferrándiz.

During the Suárez government, General and vice president Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado asked González to not raise the debate of the Civil War and Franquism repression until the death of those of his generation.

He created popular characters such as General González, Rucucu the Ukrainian magician, the dictator of Costa Pobre ( a parody of a banana republic ruler ; its name is a pun on Costa Rica, since the country's name means " rich coast " and Costa Pobre means " poor coast "), and above all el Manosanta (" the miracle healer "), a multi-level parody on charlatans of all stripes and Argentines ' reckless pursuit of sex and money.

General Carlos Prats González ( February 24, 1915-September 30, 1974 ) was a Chilean Army officer, a political figure, minister and Vice President of Chile during President Salvador Allende's government, and General Augusto Pinochet's predecessor as commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army.

After serving in the Spanish government under Felipe González ( 1982 – 1995 ) and Secretary General of NATO ( 1995 – 1999 ), he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and Secretary-General of the Western European Union and held these posts from October 1999 until December 2009.

The concept of the railroad was officially recognized in 1880, when the president of Mexico, General Manuel González, granted a rail concession to Albert Kinsey Owen of the Utopia Socialist Colony of New Harmony, Indiana, USA, who was seeking to develop a socialist colony.

Alemán was born in Sayula in the state of Veracruz as the son of General Miguel Alemán González and Tomasa Valdés Ledezma.

Instead, González was elected governor of Guanajuato " unanimously " in 1884 and served in office until his death in 1893, after a failed attempt to succeed General Díaz in 1887.

* Canto General ( Aparcoa album ), by Chilean folk band Aparcoa, recorded various times between 1970 and 1974 and released in different countries in collaboration with narrators Mario Lorca ( Chilean ), Marés González ( Argentinian ), Gisela May ( German ), Humberto Duvauchelle ( Chilean )

He was born into one of the most influential aristocratic families of 15th century Spain the grandson of King Henriquez IV's crypto-Jewish Contador General Diego Arias de Ávila, deceased 1466, and Elvira González, deceased 1463, parents of three children, namely, Pedro, deceased 1476 while fighting took place in Madrid and the father of our Pedro, Juan, later Bishop of Segovia, deceased at Rome, Italy, 1497 and Isabel, deceased 1472, whose descendants always resident at Segovia, could be tracked afterward, in the 16th century in the Inquisition records and trials.

Somoza ’ s successor as head of state, interim President Francisco Urcuyo Maliaños opened negotiations for a cease-fire but at the same time tried to strengthen his political position by filling with younger colonels and lieutenants colonels the depleted National Guard ´ s General Staff, now headed by the new Chief Director Lt. Col. ( later General ) Federico Mejía González.

* General Federico Mejía González ( July 1979 )

: General Secretary: Ignacio González del Rey

: General Manager: Eusebio González

General Jordan then left, Máximo Gómez was returned to his command and a new generation of skilled battle-tested Cuban commanders rose from the ranks, these including Antonio Maceo Grajales, José Maceo, Calixto García, Vicente Garcia González and Federico Fernández Cavada.

However, this storyline was interrupted by the death of Rodríguez due to a heart attack, and he unsuccessfully attempted to regain control of the General Manager by challenging González at Summer Attitude.

General Wheeler asked Cuban Colonel González Clavel for the cooperation of his forces in the improvised assault, but the disciplined Cuban officer, lacking orders from Lawton, refused Wheeler's request.

Tomás José Ruíz González ( March 23, 1963 –) is a Mexican politician and the current Director General of the Mexican Lottery ( Lotería Nacional para la Asistencia Pública ).