War of the Pacific
1879–1884 · Event
Chile defeats Peru and Bolivia over nitrate-rich deserts, leaving Bolivia landlocked to this day.
On these timelines: Latin America, 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 1879
- Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung premieres (1876)
- German unification (1871)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- War and Peace (1869)
- Berlin Conference / Scramble for Africa (1884)
- Winston Churchill (1874)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)