389 notable events in Peru — wars, earthquakes and terror attacks. Page 2 of 4.
- LANSA Flight 501
Apr 27, 1966 · Aviation accident
- 1998 Occidental Petroleum Boeing 737 crash
May 5, 1998 · Aviation accident
- Accomarca massacre
Aug 14, 1985 · Massacre
- Peruvian Public Ministry controversy
date unknown · Scandal & controversy
- 1970 Peru–Ecuador earthquake
Dec 9, 1970 · Earthquake
- 1687 Peru earthquake
Oct 20, 1687 · Earthquake
- 1966 Peru earthquake
Oct 17, 1966 · Earthquake
- 2001 Peru Cessna 185 shootdown
Apr 20, 2001 · War & armed conflict
- Socos massacre
Dec 13, 1983 · Massacre
- 1948 Peruvian coup d'état
Oct 27, 1948 · War & armed conflict
- 2009 Peruvian political crisis
Jun 1, 2009 · War & armed conflict
- 2020 Villa El Salvador explosion
Jan 23, 2020 · Bombing & explosion
- 1996 Nazca earthquake
Nov 12, 1996 · Earthquake
- 2025 Chimbote earthquake
Dec 27, 2025 · Earthquake
- Santa massacre
May 2, 1992 · Massacre
- Bagua destrucción no voten por Alan García
Jun 5, 2009 · Massacre
- Juan Santos Rebellion
1742–1752 · War & armed conflict
- Walter Oyarce case
date unknown · Crime & justice
- Bolivarian Continental Coordinator – Peru Chapter
date unknown · Terrorism
- National Population Program
date unknown · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Case of María Magdalena Monteza Benavides
Jan 1, 1992 · Crime & justice
- Las Malvinas fire
Jun 22, 2017 · Fire
- Three Martyrs of Chimbote
Aug 25, 1991 · Terrorism
- Círculo Militar de Chorrillos shooting
Oct 8, 2025 · Shooting
- Iquicha War of 1839
Nov 1, 1839 · War & armed conflict
- Cusco earthquake of 1950
May 21, 1950 · Earthquake
- 1992 Peruvian coup attempt
Nov 13, 1992 · War & armed conflict
- Aucayacu massacre
Aug 6, 1986 · Massacre
- 2018 Pasamayo bus crash
Jan 2, 2018 · Road accident
- Balconcillo mutiny
Feb 27, 1823 · War & armed conflict
- Assassination of Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro
Apr 30, 1933 · Murder & homicide
- 1919 Peruvian coup d'état
Jul 4, 1919 · War & armed conflict
- 1987 North Korean embassy attack in Lima
Apr 30, 1987 · Terrorism
- 2021 Northern Peru earthquake
Nov 28, 2021 · Earthquake
- 2002 Lima bombing
Mar 20, 2002 · Terrorism
- Frecuencia Latina bombing
Jun 5, 1992 · Terrorism
- Death and funeral of Alberto Fujimori
Sep 11, 2024 · Death & funeral
- Red Path
date unknown · Terrorism
- Soras massacre
Jul 16, 1984 · Massacre
- 2025 Ollantaytambo District train collision
Dec 30, 2025 · Rail accident
- Huaraz Rebellion
Mar 1, 1885–Sep 28, 1887 · War & armed conflict
- Assault of Ayacucho prison
Mar 2, 1982 · Attack (other)
- 1914 Peruvian coup d'état
Feb 4, 1914 · War & armed conflict
- Shining Path remnants
date unknown · Terrorism
- Shining Trenches of Combat
date unknown · Terrorism
- 2022 Peruvian economic protests
Mar 24, 2022–Dec 2022 · Riot & unrest
- 2022 Chilca earthquake
May 12, 2022 · Earthquake
- Pativilca massacre
Jan 29, 1992 · Massacre
- Aeroperú Flight 772
Oct 25, 1988 · Aviation accident
- 1586 Lima–Callao earthquake
Jul 9, 1586 · Earthquake
- Putis massacre
Dec 1, 1984 · Massacre
- Vraem Insurgency
Aug 9, 2001 · Terrorism
- Cayara massacre
May 14, 1988 · Massacre
- 2021 Mala earthquake
Jun 22, 2021 · Earthquake
- Era of terrorism in Ayacucho
date unknown · Terrorism
- Canto Grande massacre
Jan 1, 1992 · Massacre
- Peruvian police locate bodies of security guards allegedly abducted by illegal goldminers
date unknown · Disappearance
- Mercury spill in Choropampa
Jun 2, 2000 · War & armed conflict
- Los Olivos stampede
Aug 22, 2020 · Stampede & crowd crush
- 1962 Ranrahirca landslide
Jan 10, 1962 · Natural disaster
- Huánuco rebellion
Mar 21, 1812 · War & armed conflict
- Barrios Altos v. Peru
until Mar 14, 2011 · Crime & justice
- Punta Lobos massacre
Jan 1, 1350 · Massacre
- 1811 Tacna rebellion
Jun 1811 · War & armed conflict
- 2017 Peruvian teachers' strike
Jun 15, 2017–Sep 2, 2017 · Riot & unrest
- Lucchetti case
Jan 1998 · Crime & justice
- Murders of Bryan Pintado and Inti Sotelo
Nov 14, 2020 · Murder & homicide
- Lima anti-Japanese riot
1940 · Riot & unrest
- 2021 protests in Peru
2021 · Riot & unrest
- Callao affair
Nov 5, 1820–Nov 6, 1820 · Scandal & controversy
- Azul Rojas case
date unknown · Crime & justice
- 2023 Ilave River deaths
Mar 5, 2023 · Massacre
- Ricardo Moran Case
date unknown · Crime & justice
- Expresso Aéreo Flight 028
Feb 25, 1994 · Aviation accident
- Operation Patriota
Aug 17, 2022 · War & armed conflict
- Tacna Rebellion of 1813
Nov 3, 1813 · War & armed conflict
- Case «Plata como Cancha»
2022 · Crime & justice
- 1986 Soviet embassy attack in Lima
Jul 7, 1986 · Terrorism
- Murder of Todd Smith
Nov 18, 1989 · Murder & homicide
- Talambo incident
Aug 4, 1863 · War & armed conflict
- San Román family massacre
date unknown · Massacre
- La Hoyada massacre
Sep 12, 1988 · Massacre
- Saweto case
Sep 1, 2014 · Crime & justice
- 1986 Cusco earthquake
Apr 5, 1986 · Earthquake
- Magic cheese fraud
Jul 2006 · Crime & justice
- 1979 Chile–Peru espionage scandal
1979 · Crisis
- Huancho Lima rebellion
1923–1924 · War & armed conflict
- 2018 Peru earthquake
Jan 14, 2018 · Earthquake
- Ccano massacre
Feb 23, 1991 · Terrorism
- Rolexgate
from Mar 14, 2024 · Scandal & controversy
- 2024 Peru wildfires
Jul 2024–Oct 2024 · Fire
- 1992 Bolivian embassy attack in Lima
Jul 22, 1992 · Terrorism
- Peruvian 1995 Amnesty Law
date unknown
- Vladimiro Montesinos case
2001 · Scandal & controversy
- Camila case
date unknown · Crime & justice
- 2012 Amazon Sky An-26 crash
Dec 17, 2012 · Aviation accident
- Assassination of Manuel Pardo
Nov 16, 1878 · Murder & homicide
- Murder of María Elena Moyano
Feb 15, 1992 · Terrorism
- 1909 Peruvian coup attempt
May 29, 1909 · War & armed conflict
- 2024 southern Peru earthquake
Jun 28, 2024 · Earthquake