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100 Moche civilization emerges and starts building an advanced society in present-day Peru.
1100 The city of Cusco, Peru is founded.
1533 Peru, Inca Atahualpa
pays Francisco Pizarro
ransom of approx. $100 million in gold; Pizarro executes him anyway.
1533 Francisco Pizarro
arrives in Cuzco, Peru.
1535 Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro
.
1536 Manco Capac II revolts from Spanish rule in Peru
1537 Manco II establishes neo-Inca independent state at Vilacampa, Peru
1639 Francisco Maldonado de Silva, Peruvian Jew
ish poet, executed by burning at the stake.
1742 In Peru, Juan Santon takes the name Atahualpa II and begins an ill-fated rebellion against the Spanish
rule
1817 An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the Andes from Argentina
to liberate Chile
and then Peru.
1821 Peru declares independence from Spain
. (See Peru's Independence from Spain).
1822 Independence Day in Peru (see History of Peru).
1823 Simón Bolívar
named President of Peru
1824 Simón Bolívar
proclaimed Emperor
of Peru.
1825 Bolivia
gains independence from Peru as a republic
with the instigation of Simón Bolívar
.
1839 In the Battle of Yungay, Chile
defeats a Peruvian and Bolivia
n allian
1879 At Antofagasta, Chile
: Chilean troops disembark in this port, then Bolivian. This is the beginning of the War of the Pacific between Chile and the joint forces of Peru and Bolivia
.
1883 Peru and Chile
signed the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province was ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
1930 Military junta takes over in Peru.
1931 Peruvian revolutionaries hijack a Ford Trimotor aeroplane and demand that the pilot drop propaganda
leaflets over Lima
1945 Chile
, Ecuador
, Paraguay
and Peru join the United Nations
.
1959 At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
1962 An avalanche on Nevado Huascarán in Peru causes 4000 deaths.
1962 A volcano
erupts in the Peruvian Andes
, causing an avalanche
that buries 3000.
1962 In Lima
, Peru, an unpopular referee ruling in a Peru-Argentina soccer match leads to a riot and panic - 300 dead, over 500 injured.
1971 A landslide at Chungar, Peru crashes into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200.
1990 Alberto Fujimori
becomes president of Peru.
1992 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt
replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.
1996 The Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement takes 72 hostages in the Japan
ese Embassy in Lima
, Peru.
1997 A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japan
ese ambassador in Lima, Peru ends after government commandos storm and capture the building rescuing 71 hostages. One hostage dies of a heart attack
, two soldiers are killed from rebel fire, and all 14 Tupac Amaru rebels are slain.
1997 In Belo Horizonte, Brazil
, Cruzeiro wins Sporting Cristal of Peru by 1-0 and are Copa Libertadores de América champions by second time. ''South Park'' premieres on Comedy Central.
2000 Alberto Fujimori
is removed from office as president of Peru.
2001 Alejandro Toledo is sworn in as the new president of Peru, 8 months after a vote of no-confidence in former President Alberto Fujimori
.
2001 Peru's attorney general files homicide
charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori
.
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