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, Pre-Columbian Americas, Master
More from Latin America
- Machu Picchu built (1450)
- Panama Canal opens (1914)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Haitian Revolution begins (1791)
- Toussaint Louverture issues Haitian constitution (1801)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Founding of Tenochtitlán (1325)
- Gabriel García Márquez (1927)
Around 1911
- World War I (1914)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Victorian era ends (1901)
- Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (1905)
- Wright Brothers first flight (1903)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Sinking of the Titanic (1912)
- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914)
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premieres (1913)