Industrial Age · South America · War
1824
Battle of Ayacucho
December 9, 1824
At twelve thousand feet on an Andean plateau, Sucre's army of patriots routed the last royalist field army in South America in less than an hour. Viceroy La Serna surrendered. Three centuries of Spanish rule over the Americas ended that afternoon. Bolivia, carved out of Upper Peru, would name itself for Bolivar the next year.
In context
Also in 1824 (3 other events on record)
- Beethoven's Ninth Premieres · Europe · Culture
- Byron Dies at Missolonghi · Europe · Culture
- Iturbide Executed · North America · Politics
Before and after in South America
Before and after in War
- Before: 1823: First Anglo-Burmese War Looms
- After: 1825: Java War Begins
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.