50 Peruvian Shining Path
1780 Tupac Amaru II uprising sweeps across Peruvian highlands.
1824 Peru gains its independence from Spanish rule.
1894 Marxist intellectual José Carlos Mariátegui is born.
1928 Mariátegui publishes Seven Interpretive Es- says on Peruvian Reality; founds Peruvian Socialist Party and seeks to affiliate it with the Communist International.
1930 Mariátegui dies; the Peruvian Socialist Party becomes the Peruvian Communist Party.
1934 Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán is born.
1959 Hugo Blanco begins to organize peasants in La Convención Valley.
1962 Guzmán begins to teach philosophy at the University of Huamanga.
1963 Police capture and imprison Hugo Blanco.
1964 The Peruvian Communist Party splits into pro-Moscow and pro-Chinese factions. Peruvian Shining Path 1965 Failure of Luis de la Puente Uceda s guerrilla foco (armed revolutionary group); Guzmán CHRONOLOGY travels to China.
1200 Legendary leaders Manco Capac and Mama 1968 General Juan Velasco Alvarado