Timeline of Peruvian history
This is a timeline of Peruvian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Peru and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Peru. See also the list of presidents of Peru.
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13th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1230 | Manco Cápac died from being shot in the left eye. Sinchi Roca, his son, married his sister, and succeeded him as Inca of the Inca empire. | |
1260 | Sinchi Roca was succeeded by his son Lloque Yupanqui. | |
1290 | Lloque Yupanqui was succeeded by his son Mayta Cápac. |
14th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1320 | Mayta Cápac was succeeded by his son Cápac Yupanqui. | |
1350 | Cápac Yupanqui was succeeded by his son Inca Roca. | |
1380 | Inca Roca died. His heir Quispe Yupanqui was killed in a coup, and the throne went to Yáhuar Huácac, another son. |
15th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1410 | Yáhuar Huácac was succeeded by his son Viracocha. | |
1438 | Viracocha was succeeded by his son Pachacuti, who would expand Cuzco into the Inca Empire. | |
1471 | Pachacuti died. His son Tupac Inca Yupanqui succeeded him. | |
1493 | Tupac Inca Yupanqui died and was succeeded by Huayna Capac. |
16th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1527 | Huayna Capac died and was succeeded by his heir Ninan Cuyochi. | |
1532 | 13 May | Conquistador Francisco Pizarro landed on the northern coast of Peru. |
15 November | Pizarro arrived at Cajamarca. | |
16 November | Battle of Cajamarca The Spanish army took the Inca emperor Atahualpa prisoner, marking the end of his empire. | |
1535 | 18 January | Spaniards founded the city of Lima. |
1542 | 22 November | The Viceroyalty of Peru was established. |
1572 | End of the Neo-Inca State in Vilcabamba. |
17th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1656 | Pedro Bohórquez announced to the Calchaqui Indians that he was the last living descendant of the Inca emperors. | |
1659 | Bohórquez led the Calchaqui in an uprising against the Spanish crown. | |
1667 | 3 January | Bohórquez was executed and displayed in Lima. |
18th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1717 | The New Kingdom of Granada became an independent viceroyalty under the Spanish crown. | |
1742 | Juan Santos Atahualpa led a failed uprising against the Spanish colonial government. | |
1776 | The Governorate of the Río de la Plata was spun off as an independent viceroyalty. | |
1780 | 18 November | Battle of Sangarará: Indigenous rebels led by Túpac Amaru II soundly defeated a numerically inferior Spanish force while they attended church. |
1781 | 18 May | Túpac Amaru II was drawn and quartered in Cuzco. |
19th century
Year | Date | Event | ||
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1810 | 25 May | Viceroy José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa sent troops to Córdoba, Potosí, La Paz and Charcas and reincorporated them into the Viceroyalty of Peru. | −1816 | San Martin's Argentina had declared its independence. |
1815 | 15 October | By royal order, Joaquín de la Pezuela was named viceroy of Peru to replace Abascal. | ||
1820 | 20 September | An Argentine army led by José de San Martín landed at Paracas. | ||
1821 | 29 January | Pezuela was deposed. José de la Serna was proclaimed viceroy. | ||
6 July | De la Serna moved the capital to Cuzco. | |||
28 July | Peruvian War of Independence: San Martín declared the independence of Peru. | |||
1824 | 9 December | Battle of Ayacucho: The Spanish army was defeated, marking the end of Spanish rule in South America. | ||
1837 | 9 May | The Peru-Bolivian Confederacy was established. | ||
1839 | 25 August | The Peru-Bolivian Confederacy was officially dissolved. | ||
1866 | 2 May | A Spanish fleet under the command of Admiral Casto Méndez Núñez besieged the port city of Callao. | ||
1879 | 5 April | War of the Pacific: Chile declared war on Peru and Bolivia. | ||
1883 | 20 October | War of the Pacific: Under the Treaty of Ancón, the war ended with the cession of Peru's Tarapacá Province to Chile. |
20th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1948 | 29 October | A military coup installed General Manuel A. Odría as President of Peru. |
1956 | Odría allowed free elections. | |
1968 | 3 October | General Juan Velasco Alvarado seized power in a military coup. |
1975 | 29 August | A number of prominent military commanders overthrew the Alvarado government and installed General Francisco Morales Bermúdez in the presidency. |
1979 | 12 July | A new constitution came into force. |
1985 | 14 April | Alan García won election to the Presidency. |
1990 | 8 April | Alberto Fujimori defeated Mario Vargas Llosa in a presidential election. |
1992 | 5 April | Fujimori dissolved the Congress. |
12 September | The Maoist leader Abimael Guzmán was arrested in Lima. | |
1995 | 26 January | Cenepa War: The war broke out. |
9 April | Peruvian general election, 1995: Fujimori was re-elected president of Perú. | |
1996 | 17 December | The terrorist group Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) took hostage hundreds of high-level diplomats, government and military officials and business executives who were attending a party at the official residence of Japan's ambassador to Peru. |
1997 | 22 April | The Peruvian army mounted a dramatic raid on the residence. Fourteen members of the MRTA were killed, crippling the organization, and the hostages were freed. |
21st century
Year | Date | Event |
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2001 | 8 April | Peruvian general election, 2001: Possible Peru won a plurality of APRA)]]. |
3 June | Peruvian general election, 2001: Toledo won the presidency. | |
2003 | 26 May | Toledo declared a state of emergency in response to a series of paralyzing strikes. |
2006 | 9 April | Peruvian general election, 2006: Union for Peru won a plurality of seats in the Congress. Their presidential candidate, Ollanta Humala, went into a runoff against García. |
4 June | García won the presidency. | |
2007 | 15 August | 2007 Peru earthquake: A 7.9 earthquake hit Pisco Province. |
2009 | 1 February | The Peru – United States Trade Promotion Agreement was implemented. |
See also
Further reading
- Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Peru", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. – via Hathi Trust
- Christine Hunefeldt (2004). "Chronology". A Brief History of Peru. Facts on File. ISBN 978-1-4381-0828-5.
External links
- "Peru Profile: Timeline". BBC News.
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