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The Quito Revolt is seen as a precursor to further revolts across Spanish America in the late 18th century that eventually culminated with the Spanish American wars of independence of the early 19th century. The event was the largest rebellion against colonial Spain in South America until the Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II in Peru in 1780. [5]
The Quito Revolution (1809–1812) (Spanish: Proceso revolucionario de Quito (1809-1812)) was a series of events that took place between 1809 and 1812 in the Real Audiencia de Quito, which led to the establishment of a short-lived State of Quito, and which can be considered as the seed of the independence movements that ended up forming the current Republic of Ecuador.
The military campaign for the independence of the Presidencia de Quito could be said to have begun on October 9, 1820, when the port-city of Guayaquil proclaimed its independence from Spanish rule after a quick and almost bloodless revolt against the local colonial garrison. The leaders of the movement, a combination of Venezuelan and Peruvian ...
The Quito Revolt of 1765, or Rebellion of the Barrios (Rebellion of the Neighbourhoods), takes place. A series of revolts begin in the city of Quito, part of the Real Audiencia of Quito, within the Viceroyalty of New Granada, after new taxes on alcoholic beverages are imposed by the Spanish Crown. (May 22, 1765)
In 1820 Rafael del Riego led the Spanish army in revolt against absolutism, which began a period of Liberal rule known as the Trienio Liberal and ended the threat of invasion against the Río de la Plata. As a result, the royalist cause began to collapse in the Americas.
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Since 1809, they had been at war against the revolutionaries of Quito, [ZR 4] and from 1811 against the Neogranadine rebels. A year later, they were decisive in putting down the Quito Rebellion [ZR 5]., helped defeat Nariño's Southern Campaign in 1814, and in 1816 played an important role during the Spanish reconquest of New Granada.