Tupac Amaru II
1738 – 1781 Peruvian rebel leader
Leader of a major indigenous uprising against Spanish rule in Peru.
- Religion
- Catholic
- Affiliations
- Inca noble descent
Tupac Amaru II, a curaca claiming descent from the last Inca rulers, led a large revolt against Spanish colonial rule and its labor and tax system in 1780. The rising spread widely before being crushed. He was captured and executed in Cusco, and his name became a symbol for later independence and indigenous movements.
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- 1780 – 1781 Tupac Amaru II rebellion central figure
- 1780 Tupac Amaru II's rebellion in the Andes central figure
- 1780 The rebellion of Tupac Amaru II central figure