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The Chuquisaca Revolution was a popular uprising on 25 May 1809 against Ramón García de León y Pizarro, Governor-intendant of the Intendancy of Chuquisaca (or Charcas) (today Sucre, Bolivia). The Real Audiencia of Charcas, with support from the faculty of University of Saint Francis Xavier, deposed the governor and formed a junta. [1]
The May Revolution (Spanish: Revolución de Mayo) was a week-long series of events that took place from 18 to 25 May 1810, in Buenos Aires, capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. This Spanish colony included roughly the territories of present-day Argentina , Bolivia , Paraguay , Uruguay , and parts of Brazil .
During the afternoon, several dozen indigenous peasants were marched by civic movement protesters to Sucre's central square, the Plaza 25 de Mayo. There, they were punched, threatened, forced to strip off their shirts and kneel, subjected to alleged racist insults, and supposedly publicly humiliated in various ways.
100 years of struggle for independence: 25 de Mayo de 1809 on a commemorative stamp. On 26 May 1809, the Audiencia oidores received rumors that García León de Pizarro planned to arrest them in order to recognize Carlotta. The Audiencia decided that the situation had become so anarchic both in Charcas and in the Peninsula, that Charcas needed ...
Juana Azurduy de Padilla (July 12, 1780 – May 25, 1862) [1] was a guerrilla military leader from Chuquisaca, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (now Sucre, Bolivia). [2] She fought for Bolivian and Argentine independence alongside her husband, Manuel Ascencio Padilla , earning the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Pirámide de Mayo, commemorative monument on Plaza de Mayo. The May Revolution (Spanish: Revolución de Mayo) was a week-long series of revolutionary events that took place from 18 to 25 May 1810, in Buenos Aires, capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.
On May 25, 1809, the Chuquisaca Revolution took place, which was a popular uprising against Ramón García de León y Pizarro, president of the Royal Audience of Charcas in the city of Chuquisaca, and also mayor of Chuquisaca. Led by Bernardo de Monteagudo, Jaime de Zudáñez and other followers of Republican ideals, popular protests were held ...
Chuquisaca was subject to the General Government, its governor was appointed by the president of the State, and this in turn was appointed by the supreme protector on duty. The governor was obliged to elect representatives of his department to participate in congressional meetings, which were ordered by the president of the Bolivian State.