Empire1542 – 1821 · 279 years
Viceroyalty of Peru (1600)
Overview
The Viceroyalty of Peru, officially known as the Kingdom of Peru, 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. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Peru was one of the only two Spanish viceroyalties active in the Americas, the other being the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
Wikipedia: Viceroyalty of Peru·CC BY-SA 4.0
Borders & accuracy
Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.
- SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
- DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1700:Vice Royalty of Peru
- SNAPSHOT1600
- MATCHEDVice Royalty of Peru
- POLITY TYPEstate
Also during this period
No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.
- Thirty Years' War1618–48World-changing · 8.0M dead
- Portuguese Conquest of Brazil1500–1750World-changing · 5.0M dead
- American Indian Wars1500–1800World-changing · 5.0M dead
- Qing Conquest of Ming China1618–83World-changing · 5.0M dead
- French Wars of Religion1562–98World-changing · 4.0M dead
- Napoleonic Wars1803–15World-changing · 3.5M dead
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1542 and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Viceroyalty of Peru (1600) (1542 – 1821). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/americas-viceroyalty-peru-1600 · Sources & methodology