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.

The mestizo children of Francisco Pizarro were also military leaders because of their famous father.

Gonzalo was also the brother of Hernando Pizarro and Juan Pizarro.

He was also celebrated for his Pizarro in Beethoven's Fidelio, of which a live 1960s recording from Covent Garden was issued for the first time in 2005 under the Testament label.

Having already been overlooked by Bayern for striker Élber Giovane, the signing of striker Claudio Pizarro for the 2001 – 02 Bundesliga season would also limit his appearances as Santa Cruz would regularly be substituted on to replace Pizarro or Élber.

The Government Palace of Peru, also known as House of Pizarro, was the house of the Peruvian government headquarters and was built over a huge Indian burying ground Waka that had a shrine of Indian chief Taulichusco.

The Government Palace of Peru, also known as House of Pizarro, renoved in 1937, is located on the north side of the Plaza Mayor, Lima, " City of the Kings.

The Cathedral also contains the tomb of the Spanish conquistador of Peru, Francisco Pizarro.

Carbajal also a began establishing the grid of streets as drawn up by the orders of Pizarro.

During this period, the mid-1980s to the early-1990s, deadly violence was also directed against mainstream politicians, such as the official Liberal presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán on August 18, 1989, M-19 presidential candidate Carlos Pizarro on April 26, 1990, Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara on April 30, 1984, and others.

He also told Pizarro he suspected the fields around the plaza where the Spaniards were hiding were soon to be invaded by Atahualpa's army.

Thereafter, Pizarro went on to look for Atahualpa himself, who was shielded by his faithful nobles who, in the end, were also captured by the Spaniards.

Pizarro also gave him a large native commandery, which Valverde mistreated by simply using them as slaves.

His previous loss came on August 1, also courtesy of a complete game by 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.

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

Once captured, he was humiliated by Hernando Pizarro and his requests for appeals to the King were ignored.

It was not until December 1540 that Quito received its first captain-general in the person of Francisco Pizarro's brother, Gonzalo Pizarro.

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 ).

Although he had found no El Dorado to equal those of Hernán Cortés in Mexico and Francisco Pizarro in Peru, he was loved by his people, who lamented his passing.

The role of Pizarro was taken by Johann Michael Vogl, who later became known for his collaborations with Schubert.

He was the first European to do so, accomplishing this eight years before Francisco Pizarro.

Hernán Cortés eventually conquered Mexico and the Tlaxcala in 1519-1521, while the conquest of the Inca was carried out by some 40, 000 Incan renegades led by Francisco Pizarro in between 1532 and 1535.

After serving with the Spanish army in Italy and Flanders, he was sent to South America in 1534, where he served as lieutenant under Francisco Pizarro in Peru, acting as his second in command.

To avoid difficulties, Pizarro advised the two competitors to join their interests, and on December 28, 1539, a contract of partnership was signed.

After the victory over Almagro's men, he was appointed governor of La Culata and re-established the town of Guayaquil, previously founded by Pizarro and repopulated by Sebastián de Belalcázar.

Born at Trujillo ( various birth dates, ranging from 1490 to 1511, are still quoted by biographers ), Orellana was a close friend, and possibly a relative of the Pizarro family.

During the civil war he sided with the Pizarros and was Ensign General of a force sent by Francisco Pizarro from Lima in aid of Hernando Pizarro.

In 1540 Gonzalo Pizarro arrived in Quito as governor and was charged by Francisco Pizarro with an expedition to locate the " Land of Cinnamon ", thought to be somewhere to the east.

In Quito, Gonzalo Pizarro collected a force of 220 Spaniards and 4000 natives, while Orellana, as second in command, was sent back to Guayaquil to raise a troop of horse.

Various troubles afflicted the expedition and, sure that El Dorado was very close, Pizarro set up a smaller group led by Francisco de Orellana to break off from the main force and forge ahead, then return with news of what they had found.

Aguirre was in his twenties and living in Seville when Hernando Pizarro returned from Peru and brought back the treasures of the Incas, inspiring Aguirre to follow in his footsteps.

The viceroy's resistance to Pizarro and his deputy Francisco de Carvajal, the infamous " demon of the Andes ," would last for two years until he was defeated in Añaquito on January 18, 1546.

After the capture and execution of the Inca Atahualpa at Cajamarca, Francisco Pizarro had sent Belalcázar to take possession of Guayaquil and Quito on his behalf, but Cali, being beyond the Quechua empire, was claimed by Belalcazar as his own territory.

In 1540, Gonzalo Pizarro, the younger half-brother of Francisco Pizarro, was made the governor of the provenance of Quito in northern Ecuador.

Devastated by European diseases to which they had no immunity, and civil wars, in 1532 the Incas were defeated by an alliance composed of tens of thousands allies from nations they had subjugated ( e. g. Huancas, Chachapoyas, Cañaris ) and a small army of 180 Spaniards led by Francisco Pizarro.

Left with the impression that the inhabitants of the area were poor, he returned to Peru, later to be garotted following defeat by Hernando Pizarro in a Civil War.

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

After several expeditions to South America, Pizarro secured his stay in Peru and explored the territory held by the Incas.

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.

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

Led by Francisco Pizarro, the conquistadors learned that the conflict and disease were destroying the empire After receiving reinforcements in September 1532, Pizzaro set out to the newly victorious Atahualpa.

Arriving Cajamarca Pizarro sent an embassy, led by Hernando de Soto with 15 horsemen and an interpreter ; shortly thereafter he sent 20 more horsemen led by his brother Hernando Pizarro as reinforcements in case of an Inca attack.

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

This is the stream made famous by the expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro.

* 1532 – Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day

* January 18 – Lima, Peru, is founded by Francisco Pizarro.

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

* July 26 – Inca Atahualpa is executed by garotte at the orders of Francisco Pizarro in Cajamarca.