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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
2001	8 April	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 (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

• Timeline of Lima history