Timeline of Peruvian history

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This is a timeline of Peruvian history. To read about the background to these events, see History of Peru.

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[edit] 12th century

Year	Date	Event
1197		Manco Capac established a city-state at Cuzco.

[edit] 13th century

Year	Date	Event
1230		Manco Capac died. Sinchi Roca, his son, married his sister, and succeeded him as king of Cuzco.
1260		Sinchi Roca was succeeded by his son Lloque Yupanqui.

[edit] 14th century

Year	Date	Event
1320		Mayta Capac was succeeded by his son Capac Yupanqui.
1350		Capac 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 Yahuar Huacac, another son.

[edit] 15th century

Year	Date	Event
1410		Yahuar Huacac 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.

[edit] 16th century

Year	Date	Event
1527		Huayna Capac and his heir Ninan Cuyochi died of smallpox.
		Huáscar, a son of Huayna Capac, imprisoned his brother Atahualpa.
1532	November 16	Battle of Cajamarca: The Spanish captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa.
1542		The Viceroyalty of Peru was established.
1572	September 21	Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: The bodies of the first and last Inca emperors were ceremonially destroyed.

[edit] 17th century

Year	Date	Event
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	January 3	Bohórquez was executed and displayed in Lima.

[edit] 18th century

Year	Date	Event
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 Government of the Río de la Plata was spun off as an independent viceroyalty.
1780	November 18	Battle of Sangarará: Indigenous rebels led by Túpac Amaru II soundly defeated a numerically inferior Spanish force while they attended church.
1781	May 18	Túpac Amaru II was drawn and quartered in Cuzco.

[edit] 19th century

Year	Date	Event
1821	July 28	Peruvian War of Independence: José de San Martín declared the independence of Peru.
1837	May 9	The Peru-Bolivian Confederacy was established.
1839	August 25	The Peru-Bolivian Confederacy was officially dissolved.
1879	April 5	War of the Pacific: Chile declared war on Peru and Bolivia.
1883	October 20	War of the Pacific: Under the Treaty of Ancón, the war ended with the cession of Peru's Tarapacá Province to Chile.

[edit] 20th century

Year	Date	Event
1948	October 29	A military coup installed General Manuel A. Odría as President of Peru.
1956		Odría allowed free elections.
1968	October 3	General Juan Velasco Alvarado seized power in a military coup.
1975	August 29	A number of prominent military commanders overthrew the Alvarado government and installed General Francisco Morales Bermúdez in the presidency.
1979	July 12	A new constitution came into force.
1992	April 5	Fujimori dissolves the Congress.

[edit] 21st century

Year	Date	Event
2001	April 8	Peruvian general election, 2001: Possible Peru won a plurality of seats in the Congress. Their presidential candidate, Alejandro Toledo, went into a runoff against Alan García of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance.
	June 3	Peruvian general election, 2001: Alejandro Toledo won the presidency.
2003	May 26	Toledo declared a state of emergency in response to a series of paralyzing strikes.
2006	April 9	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 Alan García.
	June 4	García won the presidential place..