Democritus

1100 - The Inca establish a city-state, the Kingdom of Cusco

1438 - The Inca Empire is formed, wage wars of conquest.

1493 - The Empire now stretches from Ecuador up to Central Chile.

1500 - Huayna Capac's reign sees internal focus. New roads and temples built.

1524 - Francisco Pizarro arrives to explore South America, brings deadly diseases.

1526 - Start of the Inca Civil War, between Huáscar and Atahualpa.

1532 - Atahualpa wins the bloody civil war. But, Pizzaro's forms an alliance with several key native tribes, who were oppressed by the Incas. Later that year, Pizzaro tricks Atahualpa into attending a diplomatic meeting and captures him alive. Atahualpa offers to pay a ransom of tons of gold and precious metals in exchange for his freedom.

The Colonial Era

1533 - Despite receiving the ransom, Pizzaro executes Atahualpa and installs Manco as an Inca puppet emperor.

1535 - Pizzaro establishes Lima, the seat of Spanish power in colonial Andea.

1536 - Manco leads an anti-Spanish rebellion, establishing the Neo-Inca State.

1542 - The Viceroyalty of Peru is established.

1572 - The Spanish defeat the Neo-Inca State, establishing firm control over Peru.

1600 - The Spanish launch a major campaign to convert the native population to Catholicism.

1700 - Bourbons take over Spain. They increase central control over Peru and shift towards mercantilism.

1767 - The Society of Jesus, influential in protecting native rights, is expelled from the New World.

1780 - Tupac Amaru II leads a pro-Inca and anti-Spanish rebellion, but is defeated the next year.

1784 - The Spanish institute reforms, creating a court to deal with indigenous claims.

1808 - With Napolean's invasion of Spain, pro-independence forces elsewhere in Spanish America launch a series of uprisings.

1814 - Royalist forces in Peru crush a pro-independence uprising. The Royalists would later support the attempted Spanish Reconquista of South America.

1820 - José de San Martín and Simon Bolivar, alongside Chilean and Peruvian revolutionaries, launch an invasion of Royalist Peru.

1821 - Lima falls to the revolutionaries, but royalists still control most of the country including Bolivia (then known as Upper-Peru).

1826 - The final Royalist holdouts surrender. Bolivia, named after Simon Bolivar, is completely split from Peru.

The Confederal Period

1828 - Peruvian forces invade Bolivia, replacing the pro-Bolivar president with Andrés de Santa Cruz, a pro-Peruvian president. Furious, Bolivar launches the Gran Colombia–Peru War, which ends in a stalemate but leaves disputed territories in Ecuador.

1835 - Peru's president refuses to give up power after his term expires, making him unpopular. Andrés de Santa Cruz invades Peru in order to unify Peru and Bolivia.

1836 - Andrés de Santa Cruz declares himself the Supreme Protector of the Peru-Bolivia Confederation. Seeing Peru-Bolivia as a major threat, Chile (backed by Peruvian dissidents) start the War of the Confederation in an attempt to dissolve the union.

1839 - Peru-Bolivia defeats Chile in the War of the Confederation, starting a period of internal stability in Peru-Bolivia.

1840 - British investment helps extract guano and nitrate fertilizer, which would later dominate Peru-Bolivia's economy.

1854 - Slavery and the Indian tribute tax is abolished in the Peru-Bolivia Confederation.

1865 - Spain attempts to reconquer Peru-Bolivia, but is fended off with the help of Chile. The Supreme Protector dies of old age.

1866 - Spain recognizes Peru-Bolivia's independence, securing its status as a sovereign country.

1879 - Start of the War of the Pacific, fought against Chile due to economic disputes and guano reserves.

1883 - The War of the Pacific ends in a decisive Chilean victory, resulting in major territorial losses for Peru-Bolivia.

The Aristocratic Republic

1890 - Massive rebuilding effort begins. The Peru-Bolivia Confederation is transformed into the Peru-Bolivia Republic, with a more centralized government. Simultaneously, a power struggle occurs between the civilian government and the military.

1895 - Civilian government asserts its control. With liberal democracy secured, pro-capitalist reforms are carried out.

1909 - Peru-Bolivia negotiates a border treaty with Orostan, peacefully settling various border disputes.

1920 - Major effort made at attracting American capital. Wealthy landowners increasingly dominated Peru-Bolivia.

1924 - The American People's Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) is created. It would become a powerful leftist opposition party in Andea.

1929 - A treaty finalizes borders between Peru-Bolivia and Chile. Start of the Great Depression, but Peru is (relatively) unaffected.

1932 - Peru-Bolivia and Paraguay fight in the Chaco War over disputed territories. Fierce Paraguayan resistance leads to a Paraguayan victory. The APRA is banned, and its members are persecuted and forced to operate underground.

1941 - Peru-Bolivia invades Puertollano over disputed territories in Ecuador. The Puertollanoan forces were completely routed, leading to Peru-Bolivia trying to conquer all of Ecuador. An international intervention forces both sides to accept a status-quo peace treaty, which heavily favored Peru-Bolivia.

1945 - Peru-Bolivia declares war on the Axis, but doesn't participate in combat. The APRA is unbanned. In the wake of the rise of the Soviet Union, the APRA and the Peru-Bolivian Socialist Party become major political forces. The two parties don't cooperate much over ideological differences.

1950 - Modest land reform efforts begin. But they aren't enough to satisfy the public.

1958 - Orostani Civil War ends in a communist victory. Inspired by the events in Orostan, the Communist Party of Andea is created.

1962 - With the APRA expected to win the 1962 elections, a state of emergency is declared and elections are canceled.

The Socialist Republic

1965 - With the support of dissatisfied factions in the military, the Communist Party launches a coup. The Republic of Peru-Bolivia is reorganized into the Socialist Republic of Andea, a one-party Marxist-Leninist state. With help from socialist allies, a major industrialization effort is launched.

1968 - Velasco Alvarado, a pro-indigenous general gained prominence in the Communist Party. He critiqued Andea's emulation of the Orostani model, which had little regard for protecting indigenous culture and rights. Velasco also advocated for non-alignment in foreign affairs.

1975 - Velasco was purged from the Communist Party and is forced into early retirement. He died three years later.

1980 - The Shining Path, an etnocacerista group, launched a guerilla war in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho. It sought to overthrow the "anti-indigenous" Andean government. The Sendero perpetrators were quickly caught by local police, and the incident got little attention from the Andean press.

1981 - In Ayacucho, the growing Shining Path presence led to Andean military being deployed to stop the Shining Path. The brutal military reprisals against Shining Path attacks led to increased supports for the insurgency.

1982 - The Shining Path launched a brutal counter-attack. Soldiers, law enforcement, and "collaborators" [pro-government civilians] were killed, often using gruesome methods. This turned off many would-be supporters away from the Shining Path. The government began arming Ronda Campesinas, peasant militias to fight against the Shining Path. Orostani special forces also arrived to help quell the insurgency. The Shining Path began selling illegal drugs in order to fund itself, coining the term narcoterrorism.

1985 - As the insurgency dragged on, the Shining Path committed several massacres in retaliation for government or ronda attacks. The Shining Path begins a policy of assassinating politicians in an attempt to paralyze the state administration, and also begins regular raids into Lima. The Shining Path also targeted reformist pro-indigenous individuals and organizations, as they were seen as detrimental to the pro-indigenous cause.

1988 - Hyperinflation began in Andea, as the government struggled to finance both the war and its social spending. The desperate situation helped legitimize the Shining Path's cause, a situation that was becoming increasingly dire.

1991 - The Shining Path reached its greatest extent, controlling much of Andea's countryside and even the outskirts of Lima. A state of emergency was declared, and the government started the use of extralegal death squads against Shining Path supporters. The Andean government also drastically raised prices of all goods and cut social services, which stopped the hyperinflation but left much of the poor in a difficult situation. These actions only served to escalate the war.

1992 - Andean intelligence agents managed to capture the Shining Path leader. The heavily centralized Shining Path had no second in command, and soon fragmented and faltered to obscurity. Most Shining Path forces surrendered, but some went into hiding or continued resistance in the VRAEM region. The Shining Path remnants in the VRAEM explicitly allied themselves with drug traffickers. This was dubbed by the Andean press as the narco-terrorist insurgency.

1994 - Market socialist policies were implemented, but most industry remained under state control. Afterward, an unprecedented prolonged economic boom occurred, as inflation was brought into tight control and social programs were reinstituted. The government undertook a major offensive in the VRAEM region, wiping out the narco-terrorist insurgency. However, pro-democracy activists were starting to advocate for the end to one-party rule.

1997 - Preempting the pro-democracy movement, Andea declared itself a socialist democracy, which satisfied the general populace. Over time political restrictions would further loosen. Despite that, the Communist Party remains the most entrenched party in Andea, but no longer holds a monopoly on power.