Machu Picchu rediscovered
1911 · Event
Hiram Bingham brings the Inca citadel to global attention, making it an icon of pre-Columbian civilisation.
On these timelines: Latin America, Master, Pre-Columbian Americas
More from Latin America
- Spanish Conquest of the Americas (1519)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521)
- Columbian Exchange (1492)
- Haitian Revolution begins (1791)
- Toussaint Louverture issues Haitian constitution (1801)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
Around 1911
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (1905)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Wright Brothers first flight (1903)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)