- 1548-07-16 La Paz, Bolivia, is founded
- 1809-07-16 La Paz, Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva led by Pedro Domingo Murillo, the first independent government in Spanish America
- 1904-10-20 Bolivia and Chile sign a treaty ending the War of the Pacific; recognizing Chile's possession of the coast, providing for construction of a railway linking La Paz, Bolivia, to Arica on the coast
- 1959-04-19 Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails
- 2012-06-07 A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people
- 2019-09-10 Bolivian wildfires have destroyed two million hectares (almost five million acres), of forest and grassland since August according to College of Biologists in La Paz
Famous People from La Paz
Famous Bolivians
Evo Morales
Roberto Suárez Gómez