1541 Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
1551 National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
1992 The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima.
2001 A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291.