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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.
This article lists the viceroys of Peru, who ruled the Viceroyalty of Peru from 1544 to 1824 in the name of the monarch of Spain.The territories under de jure rule by the viceroys included in the 16th and 17th century nearly all of South America except eastern Brazil.
In Peru, the Creole rebellion of Huánuco arose in 1812 and the rebellion of Cuzco arose between 1814 and 1816. Despite these rebellions, the Criollo oligarchy in Peru remained mostly Spanish loyalist, which accounts for the fact that the Viceroyalty of Peru became the last redoubt of the Spanish dominion in South America.
History of the Viceroyalty of Peru (1542–1824) by period — ruling over Spanish colonial southern and western South America, and based colonial Peru. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
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 ...
This movement also made note of the uselessness of the position of viceroyalty as a whole, though specifically in Upper Peru where it was the center of Royalist reaction [8] Pumacahua joined the Criollo leaders in forming a junta on 3 August in Cuzco, which demanded the complete implementation of the liberal reforms of the Spanish Constitution ...
The intendancy system was established in the Viceroyalty of Peru by royal order of August 5, 1783. 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.
Territorial divisions of the Viceroyalty of Peru as described by the laws compiled in the Recopilación of 1680.. Because the territory of the Viceroyalty of Peru was so large, and far away from centers of government in Lima and Santo Domingo, Peru (as well as New Spain) was divided into a number of real audiencias (royal audiences), a type of superior judicial tribunal that combined executive ...