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Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and east of the Inca Empire 1525–1527 Aleixo Garcia: Traveled across the Southwest of North America (completely) 1528 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: Peru, Inca Empire and Ecuador: 1531–1534 Francisco Pizarro: Ecuador and Brazil. Length of the Amazon River. 1531–1534 Francisco de Orellana: Canada, Saint Lawrence ...
Thus, Europe first received news of the eastern and western Pacific within a one-year span around 1512. East and west exploration overlapped in 1522, when a Spanish expedition sailing westward, led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and, after his death by navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano, completed the first circumnavigation of the ...
This is a list of years in Peru. See also the timeline of Peruvian history. For only articles about years in Peru that have been written, see . 19th century
This is a chart of cultural periods of Peru and the Andean Region developed by John Rowe and Edward Lanning and used by some archaeologists studying the area. An alternative dating system was developed by Luis Lumbreras and provides different dates for some archaeological finds.
The etymology of Peru: The word Peru may be derived from Birú, the name of a local ruler who lived near the Bay of San Miguel, Panama, in the early 16th century. [29] When his possessions were visited by Spanish explorers in 1522, they were the southernmost part of the New World yet known to Europeans. [ 30 ]
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This is a timeline of Peruvian history, comprising important legal & territorial changes and political events in Peru and its predecessor states. To read about ...
Zaña Valley, northern Peru, irrigation canals have been dated to 5400 and 6700 years ago (3400 BCE and 4700 BCE) and show communal work. [1] [2] A frieze at the Sechin Bajo site of the Casma/Sechin culture has been dated to 3600 BCE, the oldest monument found in Peru. [3]
Reconstruction of one of the pyramids of Aspero. After the first humans — who were then arranged into hunter-gatherer tribal groups — arrived in South America via the Isthmus of Panama, they spread out across the continent, with the earliest evidence for settlement in the Andean region dating to circa 15,000 BCE, in what archaeologists call the Lithic Period.