Marked Caracas

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Bolívar and Latin American independence

When Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, the Spanish colonies of the Americas began to break away. Within twenty years, most of Central and South America were independent republics.

Place
Caracas · Dolores · Boyacá · Ayacucho · LimaThe Americas
Laid out as
A revolutionHow things were before, the moment it turned, and how things were after.
Lessons
7 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

BeforeColonies ruled from Madrid and Lisbon.

  1. INapoleon in Spain
  2. IIHidalgo’s cry
  3. IIIBolívar crosses the Andes
  4. IVSan Martín
  5. VManuela Sáenz
  6. VIBrazil’s different road
  7. VIIA dream of union

AfterIndependent republics and the Empire of Brazil.

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Simón Bolívar
  • José de San Martín
  • Manuela Sáenz
  • Miguel Hidalgo
  • Juana Azurduy

Objects

  • The Jamaica Letter
  • Bolívar’s sword

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1808 to 1826. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?