Túpac Amaru II Rebellion in Peru
In November 1780 José Gabriel Condorcanqui, who took the name Túpac Amaru II in honour of the last Inca ruler, led the largest indigenous rebellion in Spanish American history. Beginning in the Peruvian Andes, the uprising initially attracted support from mestizos and some Creoles outraged by increased taxation and forced labour under the Bourbon reforms, and Túpac Amaru captured and executed the hated corregidor Antonio de Arriaga. Spanish forces defeated and captured him in April 1781; he was publicly executed along with his family in the main square of Cusco in an act of deliberately excessive brutality. The rebellion traumatised colonial elites and paradoxically delayed independence movements by demonstrating the dangers of mass mobilisation.
- Year: 1780 CE
- Category: Military
