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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.
The history of Peru between 1919 and 1930 corresponds to the second presidency of Augusto B. Leguía, who won the elections of 1919 but soon after took power through a coup d'état as president-elect on July 4 of the same year.
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
The oldest communist party in Peru is the Peruvian Communist Party (Partido Comunista Peruano), [3] founded in 1928 by José Carlos Mariátegui, under the name Socialist Party of Peru (Partido Socialista del Perú). [2] In 1930, the name was changed to Peruvian Communist Party. Jorge Del Prado was the party's General Secretary between 1966 and ...
Manuel Prado Ugarteche succeeded General Manuel A. Odría after coming first place in the 1956 elections, with the support of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), which gave in on several of its social demands after their failure, during the government of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero, having generated an inflation of 30.8% in 1948 (causing Odría's coup d'état).
Pre-Columbian Peru: 12000 BCE–1532: Ancient civilizations: 3500 BCE–1470: Inca Empire: 1438–1533/1572: Spanish conquest: 1532–1572: Viceroyalty: 1542–1824
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