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The Viceroyalty of Peru (Spanish: Virreinato del Perú), officially known as the Kingdom of Peru (Spanish: Reino del Perú), was a Spanish imperial provincial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained modern-day Peru and most of the Spanish Empire in South America, governed from the capital of Lima.
The Royal Army of Peru (Spanish: Ejército Real del Perú), [12] also known as the National Army (Spanish: Ejército Nacional), was the army organised by the viceroy of Peru, José Fernando de Abascal, to protect the Hispanic Monarchy in the Viceroyalty of Peru—and its surrounding provinces of Charcas, Chile and Quito—of the revolutions that convulsed the Spanish Empire at the beginning of ...
The Botanical Expedition to the Viceroyalty of Peru (Spanish: Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú) was a Spanish expedition to the colonial territories of the Viceroyalty of Peru and Chile between 1777 and 1788.
Francisco de Toledo was born on 15 July 1515 [8] in Oropesa, Castile belonging to the noble family Álvarez de Toledo.He was the fourth and last child of Francisco Álvarez de Toledo y Pacheco, II Count of Oropesa, and María Figueroa y Toledo, eldest daughter of Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, II Count of Feria and María Álvarez de Toledo, daughter of the I Duke of Alba de Tormes.
The Viceroyalty of Peru (Virreinato del Perú) — Spanish colonial viceroyalty in western South America from 1542 to 1824. Its territories included present day Peru , Colombia , and Chile . From 1542–1776, it included territory in modern Argentina , Uruguay , and Paraguay as well; in 1776, they were split off to the Category:Viceroyalty of ...
In 1542 [57] [58] or 1543, [59] the Viceroyalty of Peru (Virreinato del Perú) was established, with authority over most of Spanish-ruled South America. [57] Colombia , Ecuador , Panama (after 1571) and Venezuela were split off as the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( Virreinato de Nueva Granada ) in 1717, [ 60 ] [ 61 ] and Argentina , Bolivia ...
New Spain was the first of the viceroyalties that Spain created, the second being Peru in 1542, following the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Both New Spain and Peru had dense indigenous populations at conquest as a source of labor and material wealth in the form of vast silver deposits, discovered and exploited beginning in the mid-1500s.
The viceroyalty (Spanish: virreinato) was a local, political, social, and administrative institution, created by the Spanish monarchy in the sixteenth century, for ruling its overseas territories.