Due to his uncle's mistreatment, Almagro fled his house at the age of 15.

After splitting the treasure of Inca emperor Atahualpa, both Pizarro and Almagro left towards Cuzco and took the city in 1533.

Although by this time Diego de Almagro had already acquired sufficient wealth in the conquest of Peru and was living a luxurious life in Cuzco, the prospect of conquering the lands further south was very attractive to him.

Given that the dispute with Pizarro over Cuzco had kept intensifying, Almagro spent a great deal of time and money equipping a company of 500 men for a new exploration south of Peru.

The crown had previously assigned Almagro the governorship of Cuzco, and as such Almagro was heading there when Charles V divided the territory between Nueva Castilla and Nueva Toledo.

This might have been the reason why Almagro did not immediately confront Pizarro for Cuzco, and promptly decided to embark on his new quest for the discovery of the riches of Chile.

Almagro quickly prepared his expedition with the help of men recruited from Cuzco and Lima within six months.

Almagro left Cuzco on July 3, 1535 with his supporters and stopped at Moina until the 20th of that month.

After the exhausting crossing of the Atacama desert mainly due to the climatic conditions, Almagro finally reached Cuzco, Peru, in 1537.

Upon his return to Peru in 1537, Almagro was bitter and eager to once and for all claim the riches of the city of Cuzco for himself.

Manco Inca never officially joined Almagro in his attack on Cuzco.

After occupying Cuzco, Almagro confronted an army sent by Francisco Pizarro to liberate his brothers.

Subsequent negotiations between Francisco Pizarro and Almagro concluded with the liberation of the third brother, Hernando Pizarro, in return for the definitive control and administration of Cuzco for Almagro himself.

Francisco Pizarro never had the intention of giving up Cuzco to Almagro, and only wanted to win time for himself to organize an army strong enough to defeat Almagro's troops.

* March – Diego de Almagro successfully charges Manco Inca's siege of Cuzco, thereby saving his antagonists, the Pizarro brothers.

* April 26 – Battle of Las Salinas: Almagro is defeated by Francisco Pizarro, who then seizes Cuzco.

As a result, Almagro left Cuzco in 1534 and was given the honor of Spanish King Charles I to explore the southern part of Peru ( modern-day Chile ) and look for more treasures there.

Upon his departure, Gonzalo and Juan were appointed by Francisco as garrisons of Cuzco without Almagro knowing it.

When Gonzalo and Hernándo noticed that Almagro also wanted to take control of Cuzco, they fought against him in the Battle of Las Salinas in April 1538.

In the course of these events, Almagro left for Lima for a negotiation with Francisco on who would control Cuzco.

* 1533 – Atahualpa is executed ; Almagro arrives ; Pizarro captures Cuzco and installs seventeen year old Manco Inca as new Inca emperor

* 1537 – Almagro seizes Cuzco from Hernando and Gonzalo Pizarro.

King Charles I of Spain ( Holy Roman Emperor Charles V ) had awarded the city of Cuzco to Pizarro, but Almagro attempted to claim the city nonetheless.

Despite this, Almagro still obtained an important fortune for his services, and the King awarded him in November 1532 the noble title of " Don " and he was assigned a personal coat of arms.

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Nevertheless, the club would be relegated from the first division the next season, finishing 16th out of 20 teams in the Apertura and 12th in the Clausura, but Instituto was finally relegated after a 2 – 1 playoff defeat at the hands of Almagro.

Once he left Moina, Almagro followed the Inca trail followed by 750 Spaniards deciding to join him in quest for the gold lost in the ransom of Atahualpa, which had mainly benefited the Pizarro brothers and their supporters.

In Lima in 1541 supporters of Diego Almagro II assassinated Francisco Pizarro.

He then intervened in a disagreement between supporters of the families of Pizarro and Almagro in Perú.

* 1541 – Francisco Pizarro is murdered by Diego de Almagro II and other supporters of Almagro

* 1544 – Manco Inca is murdered by supporters of Diego de Almagro.

After many guerrilla battles in the mountainous regions of Vilcabamba, Manco was murdered in 1544 by supporters of Diego de Almagro who wanted Manco dead, despite his having granted refuge to them.

Almagro was later found in Seville as the servant of don Luis de Polanco, who was one of that city's mayors.

Almagro was delighted with the valley, but as he was searching for gold and found none he returned to Peru.

Of this expedition it is only known that Almagro served as a witness to the lists of natives which Espinosa ordered to be carried.

The resistance of the Indians became daily stronger, and as the ship that he had constructed in Aconcagua was also destroyed by the natives, Valdivia sent in 1542 overland to Peru his lieutenant Alonso de Monroy with five followers to seek reinforcements, but, on account of the disturbance in that country in consequence of the defeat of El Mozo Almagro by Cristóbal Vaca de Castro, Monroy could not obtain much aid, and returned in September 1543, with only seventy horsemen, also sending by sea a vessel with provisions and ammunition to the port of Aconcagua.

Manco Inca eventually withdrew to Vilcabamba after only 10 months of fighting, and therefore, the Spanish reinforcements from the Indies arriving under the command of Diego de Almagro eventually took the city once again without conflict ..

For many years since the foundation of the professional Primera División, the only winners were the so called " big five " ( Boca Juniors, Independiente, Racing, River Plate and San Lorenzo de Almagro ).

Abancay was the location of the Battle of Abancay between the forces of the Conquistadores Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro.

Diego de Almagro, ( c. 1475 – July 8, 1538 ), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo ( The Elder ), was a Spanish conquistador and a companion and later rival of Francisco Pizarro.

Espinosa decided to undertake a new expedition, which left in December of the same year with 200 men including Almagro himself and Francisco Pizarro, who for the first time was designated as a captain.

During this expedition, which lasted 14 months, Almagro, Pizarro and Hernando de Luque became close friends.

By 1524 an association of conquest regarding South America was formalized among Almagro, Pizarro and Luque.

Almagro would remain in Panama to recruit men and gather supplies for the expeditions led by Pizarro.

After Peru fell to the Spanish, both Pizarro and Almagro initially worked together in the founding of new cities to consolidate their dominions.

As such, Pizarro dispatched Almagro to the Inca Empire's northern city of Quito to claim it as part of their jurisdiction.

In an attempt to honor Pizarro before leaving, Almagro refounded the native city of Quito as " San Francisco de Quito " in August 1534.

By 1534 the Spanish crown had determined to split the region in two parallel lines, forming the governorship of " Nueva Castilla " ( from the 1 ° to the 14 ° latitude, close to Pisco ), and that of " Nueva Toledo " ( from the 14 ° to the 25 ° latitude, in Taltal, Chile ), assigning the first to Francisco Pizarro and the second to Diego de Almagro.

During this time Almagro fell ill, and Pizarro and his brothers finally caught the opportunity to defeat him and his followers.

* 1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger.

Pedrarias was a party to the agreement authorizing the expedition by conquistadors Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro that brought the European discovery and conquest of the Inca Empire ( present day Peru ).