* 1884 – Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician, 46th President of Venezuela ( d. 1969 )

* 2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.

In power, he has made alliances with fellow Latin American socialists, namely Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, and signed Nicaragua up to the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.

Furthermore, he suggested that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recently gave the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia $ 300 million.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on March 5, 2008 called the announced movement of Colombian forces in Ecuador a " war crime ," and joined Ecuador's president Rafael Correa in demanding international condemnation of the cross-border attack.

* 1992 – A coup d ' état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.

* 1954 – Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan military officer and politician, President of Venezuela

The most famous Margarita necklace that any one can see today is the one that then Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt gave to Jacqueline Kennedy when she and her husband, President John F. Kennedy paid an official visit to Venezuela.

In 2008, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez recognized the FARC-EP as a proper army.

On 31 January 2008, the FARC-EP announced that they would release civilian hostages Luis Eladio Perez Bonilla, Gloria Polanco, and Orlando Beltran Cuellar to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez as a humanitarian gesture.

On 13 January 2008, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez stated his disapproval with the FARC-EP strategy of armed struggle and kidnapping saying " I don't agree with kidnapping and I don't agree with armed struggle ".

This followed the resolution of the 2010 Colombia – Venezuela diplomatic crisis which erupted over outgoing President Álvaro Uribe's allegations of active Venezuelan support for FARC.

Al Jazeera reported that the initiative began after Santos met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and asked him to mediate.

In 2008, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez expressed his disagreement with FARC-EP's resorting to kidnappings.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa refer to their political programmes as socialist.

President Mujica backed Venezuela's bid to join Mercosur and supported the Venezuelan Economy Minister Ali Rodriguez to become general secretary of UNASUR, a position previously held by Néstor Kirchner.

However with the election of Hugo Chávez as President of Venezuela in 1998, the foreign policy of the Hugo Chávez government has differed substantially from that of previous Venezuelan governments.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez visited Vietnam in 2006 and since then his government has stepped up bilateral relations with the country, which also included receiving the Communist Party General Secretary, Nong Duc Manh in 2007.

* December 6 – Hugo Chávez, politician and former member of the Venezuelan military, is elected President of Venezuela.

* April 24 – Edgar Sanabria, Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat, and politician, former President ( b. 1911 )

* April 11 – April 14 – A military coup d ' état against the leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez fails.

As the OAS continued economic sanctions imposed on the Dominican Republic for Trujillo's attempted murder of Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, Ramfis warned that the country could descend into civil war between left and right.

* 1908 – Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president ( d. 1981 )

** Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president ( d. 1981 )

* April 7 – Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan president and writer ( b. 1884 )

** Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president ( b. 1908 )

Former Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt said in his book Venezuela: Oil and Politics that "(...) Gomez was something more than a local despot, he was the instrument of foreign control of the Venezuelan economy, the ally and servant of powerful outside interests.

Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello ( 22 February 1908 – 28 September 1981 ), known as " The Father of Venezuelan Democracy ", was President of Venezuela from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964, as well as leader of Accion Democratica, Venezuela's dominant political party in the 20th century.

Rómulo Betancourt was born in Guatire, a town near Caracas, son of Luis Betancourt Bello ( from Canary origins ) and Venezuelan Virginia Bello Milano, being the middle brother between his older sister Teresa and younger sister Helena.

Rómulo Betancourt voting at the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election, 1946

Betancourt transferred power to his old teacher, the novelist Rómulo Gallegos ( who was the first Venezuelan president elected by direct and universal suffrage ), being appointed by the latter to head the Venezuelan Delegation to the IX Inter American Conference to be held in Bogotá, in 1948.

* May 4 – 5 – During the Carupanazo revolt against Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan Air Force aircraft attack rebel positions at Carúpano.

* June 2 – During the Porteñazo revolt of the Venezuelan Marine Corps against Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan Air Force aircraft attack marine corps positions at Puerto Cabello.

Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire ( 2 August 1884 – 7 April 1969 ) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician.

* Rómulo Gallegos ( 1884 – 1969 ), Venezuelan novelist and politician

* Rómulo Gallegos Prize, Venezuelan prize for literature

The Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize () was created on 6 August 1964 by a presidential decree enacted by Venezuelan president Raúl Leoni, in honor of the Venezuelan politician and President Rómulo Gallegos, the author of Doña Bárbara.

Trujillo developed an obsessive personal hatred of Betancourt and supported numerous plots by Venezuelan exiles to overthrow him.

While in Curaçao, Betancourt came in contact with many other young Venezuelan exiles, who like him, worked actively against Gómez's repressive regime, joining the Venezuelan Revolutionary Party ( PRV ) and devoting his time to the study of Latin American and Venezuelan history, socialist doctrine related to imperialist penetration in Latin American countries and the oil business.

In Costa Rica, he was active in Venezuelan political refugee circles, worked as Editor in Chief of the newspaper La República and kept in close contact with Betancourt and other AD leaders.

After the October 1945 revolution, Betancourt was President for a time, until Rómulo Gallegos won the Venezuelan presidential election, 1947 ( generally believed to be the first free and fair elections in Venezuela ).