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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 .
0–9. 1586 Lima–Callao earthquake; 1746 Lima–Callao earthquake; 1883 Chilean–Spanish Treaty; 1909 Peruvian coup attempt; 1914 Peruvian coup d'état
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.
Lima, the capital city of both the department and of the constituent country, saw a number of events that led to both the beginning and the end of the confederation, such as Santa Cruz's triumphant entrance on August 15, 1836, and his decree establishing the entity on October 28, [3] as well as the siege of the port of Callao and the battle ...
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 .
The Historic Centre of Lima (Centro histórico de Lima) — a World Heritage Site of the Spanish period in Lima. The site consists of main area of the World Heritage Property, and a buffer area that surrounds it. Both areas are considered as a single entity by the Peruvian government.
The first intendant of Lima (who took office in 1784) was the visitor general Jorge Escobedo y Alarcón , [3] approved by the king on January 24 of 1785. In 1787, the mayor's office was left in the hands of the viceroy until 1805 when Juan María Gálvez, then intendant of Huancavelica , took office, being named on September 22, 1804. [ 4 ]
The Historic Centre of Lima (Spanish: Centro histórico de Lima) is the historic city centre of the city of Lima, the capital of Peru.Located in the city's districts of Lima and Rímac, both in the Rímac Valley, it consists of two areas: the first is the Monumental Zone established by the Peruvian government in 1972, [1] and the second one—contained within the first one—is the World ...