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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lima, Peru This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Lima depicted in Nueva corónica y buen gobierno of Guamán Poma de Ayala ca. 1615, it reads: The City of the Kings of Lima, real audiencia and court, main head of all the kingdom of the Indies, where its Majesty and its viceroy and from the Holy Mother Church, archbishop its honourable inquisitor, its honourable from the Holy Crusade and the reverend commissioners and prelates reside.
The history of Peru spans 15 millennia, [1] extending back through several stages of cultural development along the country's desert coastline and in the Andes mountains. Peru's coast was home to the Norte Chico civilization , the oldest civilization in the Americas and one of the six cradles of civilization in the world.
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 .
1586 Lima–Callao earthquake; 1746 Lima–Callao earthquake; 1883 Chilean–Spanish Treaty; 1909 Peruvian coup attempt; 1914 Peruvian coup d'état; 1919 Peruvian coup d'état; 1930 Peruvian coup d'état; 1962 Peruvian coup d'état; 1968 Peruvian coup d'état; 1975 Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference; 2018 Lima municipal election; 2022 ...
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
According to early Spanish articles, the Lima area was once called Itchyma, [citation needed] after its original inhabitants. However, even before the Inca occupation of the area in the 15th century, a famous oracle in the Rímac Valley had come to be known by visitors as Limaq (Limaq, pronounced , which means "talker" or "speaker" in the coastal Quechua that was the area's primary language ...
The Chilean troops disembarked in the Peruvian towns of Pisco and Chilca, located to the south of Lima. General Manuel Baquedano was in control of the army of Chile during the Lima campaign. Lima was going to be defended at first by the remaining Peruvian army and by a vast number of civilians in the line of San Juan–Chorrillos. The American ...