José Manuel de Guirior (1708 – 1788) XXXII Viceroy of Peru , knight of the order of San Juan and gentleman of the chamber of the king of Spain. He was born in Aoiz (Navarra) on March 21, 1708. Son of José Carlos de Guirior Erdozaín and María Josefa Portal de Huarte. In 1733 he was admitted as a ship
Miguel Grau Seminary , hero of the navy. He was born in San Miguel de Piura on July 27, 1834. Son of Colombian Juan Manuel Grau y Berrío and Josefa Luisa Seminario y del Castillo. His childhood was spent between the city of Piura, then small and village, and the port of Paita, where he began his car
Manuel González Prada (1844-1918). Intellectual and political. He is the son of Francisco González de Prada and María Josefa Ulloa. Baptized as José Manuel de los Reyes, the future writer was born on January 5, 1844 and died on July 22, 1818. After a period at the Colegio Inglés de Valparaíso (Chile
Francisco Gil de Taboada Lemus, XXXV Viceroy of Peru . He is the son of Felipe Gil de Taboada and María Josefa de Lemus. He was born in Santa María de Sotolongo (Galicia) in 1733. At the age of 19 he sat as a midshipman and was invested with the habit of a professed knight of the order of Saint John
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega , was born on April 12, 1539, the son of Captain Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega and the ñusta Isabel Chimpu Ocllo, granddaughter of the Inca Tupac Yupanqui. He was baptized with the name of Gómez Suárez de Figueroa and there is some news of his childhood and youth from his
Agustín Gamarra Messia was a military man, president of the Republic. He embodies the figure of the caudillo of the first years of our republican life. He was born in Cuzco on August 27, 1785 . He was the son of Don Francisco Gamarra, a Spanish scribe, and Doña Josefa Petronila Messia, an indigenous
Jose Galvez Egusquiza , was born in Cajamarca on March 17, 1819 and died in Callao on May 2, 1866. Son of Colonel Lima José Gálvez y Paz , who was a deputy in 1826 and founded the Cajamarca College of Sciences, and the lady of Cajamarca María Micaela de Egúsquiza y Aristizábal . He studied at the Ce
Francisco Fierro Palas (1809-1879), popular painter known as Pancho Fierro . He was born in Lima in 1809, his parents being Nicolás Fierro and Carmen Palas. Apparently, his ability to paint was innate, although the lack of a refined technique evidences his self-taught training. His activity was perm
Diego Fernández de Córdoba, first Marquis of Guadalcázar and XIII Viceroy of Peru . He was born in Seville in 1578. Son of Francisco Fernández de Córdoba y Portocarrero, twenty-four of the Córdoba council, and Doña Francisca Melgarejo de las Roelas. He was a knight of the Order of Santiago and gentl
Jose Rufino Echenique Benavente , Republic President. Born in Puno on November 16, 1808, he was the son of José Martín Echenique Vásquez and Hermenegilda Benavente Macoaga. During the initial riots of the Pumacahua revolution and at only six years of age, he was kidnapped and dedicated to herding. C
Baltasar de la Cueva Enriquez , was Count of Castellar and XX Viceroy of Peru. He was born in Madrid in 1626. Second son of Don Francisco de la Cueva and Doña Ana Enríquez . He studied Civil and Canon Law at the University of Salamanca, where he opted for the title of licentiate in 1647, later exerc
Teodoro Francisco de Croix, XXXIV Viceroy of Peru , knight of the Walloon nobility. He was the son of Alejandro Francisco Maximiliano de Croix, Marquis de Heuchin, and Isabel Clara Eugenia de Heuchin Longastre. He was born in the Château de la Prévote, near Lille, on June 30, 1730. At the age of 16
Sara Colonia Zambrano or better known as Sarita Colonia was born on March 1, 1914 in Huaraz (Ancash) , city in which she spent the first years of her life. She is the daughter of Amadeo Colonia Flores and Rosalía Zambrano. Her family life developed in the midst of acute economic hardship, accentuate
Pedro Cieza de León , called by the historian Raúl Porras prince of the chroniclers . He was born in the town of Llerena, province of Badajoz (Spain) in 1518. He was the son of Lope de León and Leonor Cazalla. He left Seville for the Indies in 1535 at the age of thirteen. Due to his young age, when
José Santos Chocano Gastañodi (1875 – 1934), the poet was born on May 14, 1875 . His father was José Félix Chocano de Zela and his mother María Aurora Gastañodi de la Vega. The poet boasted of descending from the Spanish captain Gonzalo Fernández de Córdova. Controversial and arrogant, his life was
Jorge Chavez Dartnell , forerunner of aviation. Son of Manuel Chávez Moreyra and María Rosa Dartnell and Guise, Jorge Chávez. He was born on January 13, 1887. His mother had among his grandparents Admiral Jorge Martín Guise , hero of independence, founder of the Peruvian navy and died in the comba
Ramón Castilla y Marquesado , President of the Republic between 1845-1851 and 1855-1862. Son of Pedro de Castilla from Buenos Aires and Juana Marquesado Romero, Tarapaqueña with Indian blood, Ramón Castilla was born on August 30, 1797. During his childhood, according to Clemente Markham, he worked a
Meliton Manuel Carvajal Ambulodegui , was born in Lima on March 10, 1847. He studied at the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe National College, later moving on to the Military Naval College (1860), where he graduated three years later as a midshipman. With the rank of frigate lieutenant he joined the cre
Daniel Alcides Carrión García , was born in Cerro de Pasco on May 15, 1857. Son of the Ecuadorian doctor and lawyer Baltazar Carrión and Dolores García Navarro. He lost his father at the age of eight. He studied at the public school in Tarma and at the national school of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Lim
Augusto Cardich Loarte , was born on April 22, 1924 in the province of La Unión, department of Huánuco. He did his first studies at school No. 391 in his native land and then went to Lima, studying high school at the San Agustín school. He graduated as an agricultural engineer from the National Univ
Denis Diderot was born on October 5, 1713 in Langres. After having embraced the ecclesiastical career, then the law, Denis Diderot undertook a titanic work with dAlembert by tackling the writing of the Encyclopédie . He wants to give people access to knowledge. He thinks that man can become better i
Jurist and moderate conventional deputy, he wrote a first draft of the Civil Code in 1798, which was refused. He was appointed Second Consul in 1799, then President of the Senate and of the Council of State and contributed to the development of the Civil Code. While he had voted death to Louis XVI,
Most of the 544 native states that remained in the Union of India were so weak and small in economic terms that they could not build even a small road with their own resources. Even in the big princely states, the system of governance was so old and medieval that it was not possible for the people t
Jakub Szela. Woodcut from 1848. Jakub Szela (1787-1860) - one of the peasant leaders during the Galician uprising. Jakub Szela was born in the village of Smarzowa near Tarnów. As a young boy, he was probably drafted into the army in 1805. After returning home, he cut off a few of his fingers wit