The Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura: a historiographic event This article tries to illustrate sorne conditions in which the Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura appears. The author affirms that intellectual atmosphere ofPhilosophy Faculty ofthe Universidad Nacional de Colombia, at the end of fifties and the beginning of sixties, together with the presence ofthe academic and intellectual Jaime Jararnillo Uribe, the major leader of Anuario, were the main issues for the creation ofthisjournal. As well, the author asserts that the Anuario has been fundamental for new views in Colombian historiography.