Chronology: Conquest of Peru, 1522-1548

1513Vasco Nuñez de Balboa saw the South Sea for the first time.
ca 1525Death of Huayna Capac and beginning of civil war between his half-sons, Huascar (Cuzco) and Atahualpa (Quito).
Supposed smallpox epidemic along Inca trade routes
1522Voyage by Pascual de Andagoya from Panama along coast of "South Sea" (Pacific Ocean)
1524Franciso Pizarro's first voyage along coast of Colombia and Ecuador (north of Equator) with support of Diego de Almagro
1526Second voyage: capture of raft with gold, silver and jewels; encountered Tumbes and explored 500 miles beyond
1531Third voyage (200 men, including 4 Pizarro brothers as well as Diego de Almagro) and beginning of conquest of the Incas
Huascar defeated by Atahualpa's armies
1532Fall of Cajamarca, Nov. 16, 1532 (thousands of natives, but not one Spaniard, died)
1533Execution of Huascar on orders of Atahualpa
Execution of Atahualpa by Pizarro at Cajamarca
Spaniards gained Cuzco unopposed (Nov. 15, 1533)
Pizarro crowned the puppet emperor, Manco Inca
1535Founding of the City of Kings (Lima) on the coast
1536Revolt of Manco Inca at Cuzco failed
1537Civil war between Pizarro and Almagro
1538Defeat and execution of Diego de Almagro by Pizarros
1541Assassination of Fco. Pizarro by Almagristas
1542Publication of the "New Laws"
Defeat and execution of Almagro the younger
1544Rebellion of Gonzalo Pizarro against viceroy
1545Silver strike at Potosí
1546Execution of viceroy and 340 Spaniards
1548Defeat and execution of Gonzalo Pizarro
1572Tupac Amaru, the last Incan emperor, defeated and executed.