Lima (City of the Kings)

Timeline

1. 1535Rimac Valley · Rimac ValleyFrancisco Pizarro selected the site on the alluvial plain between the Rimac and Lurin rivers and proclaimed its founding under the name City of the Kings, commemorating the Feast of the Epiphany.
2. 1535–1538Lima · PeruWithin years of the founding, Lima was laid out with grid-pattern blocks according to Spanish colonial standards, establishing a municipal council, parish churches, and government offices; the city's basic framework took shape by the mid-to-late 1530s.
3. 1540Lima · Viceroyalty of PeruBy around 1540, Lima had established itself as the political center of the Viceroyalty of Peru, coordinating administration and supply dispatch to inland posts such as Cajamarca and Cusco, becoming the hub of Spanish control over the Andean silver-mining regions.