# Timeline of Peruvian history

This is a timeline of Peruvian history, comprising important legal & 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.

## 13th century

| Year | 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 | 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 | 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. |
| 1532 | 15 November | Pizarro arrived at Cajamarca. |
| 1532 | 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. |
1586 St rose of lima was born

## 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 | 15 December | 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. |
| 1816 | | San Martin's Argentina had declared its independence. |
| 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. |
| 1821 | 6 July | De la Serna moved the capital to Cuzco. |
| 1821 | 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 |
| 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 declares a self-coup and dissolves the Congress. |
| 1992 | 12 September | The Maoist leader Abimael Guzmán was arrested in Lima. |
| 1995 | 26 January | Cenepa War: The war broke out. |
| 1995 | 9 April | 1995 Peruvian general election: 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. |
| 2000 | 24 June | Alberto Fujimori wins reelection for a third term, later resigning at the threat of impeachment. |

## 21st century

| Year | Date | Event |
| 2001 | 8 April | 2001 Peruvian general election: Possible Peru won a plurality of APRA. |
| 2001 | 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. |
| 2003 | 14 July | Birth of Jose Diego Salazar in Trujillo, Peru. |
| 2006 | 9 April | 2006 Peruvian general election: Union for Peru won a plurality of seats in the Congress. Their presidential candidate, Ollanta Humala, went into a runoff against García. |
| 2006 | 4 June | García won the presidency. |
| 2007 | 15 August | 2007 Peru earthquake: A 7.9 earthquake hit Pisco Province. |
| 2010 | 1 | Peru celebrates Peruvian novelist Mario Varga Llosa's achievement in receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| 2011 | 28 July | Ollanta Humala is inaugurated, winning the presidency over Keiko Fujimori. |
| 2016 | 28 July | Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is inaugurated as President of Peru, prevailing over former President Alberto Fujimori's daughter, Keiko Fujimori. |
| 2017 | 24 December | Kuczynski pardons former President Alberto Fujimori, who was sentenced for 25 years with manslaughter, corruption, bribery, and violation of human rights. |
| 2018 | 21 March | Amidst a political crisis, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns the presidency in the threat of impeachment for corruption and bribery. First Vice President Martin Vizcarra assumes the presidency until the remainder of Kuczynski's term in 20 |