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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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12th century
| Year | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1197 | Manco Capac established a city-state at Cuczo. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 | 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. |
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. |
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. |
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.. |
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