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Andes

mountain range running along the western side of South America

13 dated entries naming Andes, drawn from 10 separate years between 1000 BCE and 1972 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Andean, Andes Mountains in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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10th century BC

2nd century BC

  • 200 BCEThe Early Horizon period in the Andes comes to an end as the Chavin culture vanishes and is succeeded by the Nazca culture (approximate date).source

2nd century

  • 200The Paracas culture in the Andes ends (around this year).source

6th century

  • 600The Wari Empire is established in The Andes (approximate date)source
  • 600Moche culture ends in the Andes (approximate date).source

16th century

  • 1525European-brought diseases sweep through the Andes, killing thousands, including the Inca.source
  • 1570The Andean population of the Viceroyalty of Peru reaches 1.3 million.source

18th century

  • 1786September 25 – The mine of Huancavelica in the Peruvian Andes collapses killing more than a hundred people. The event is a major setback for quicksilver production in the Spanish Empire.source

20th century

  • 19613 April – LAN Chile Flight 210 crashes in the Andes The plane carrying the Club de Deportes Green Cross soccer team crashes in the Nevado de Longaví, Maule Region, killing all 24 people on board.source
  • 19656 February – LAN Chile Flight 107 crashes in the Andes.source
  • 1972October 13 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft transporting a rugby union team crashes at about 14,000 ft in the Andes mountain range, near the Argentina/Chile border. Sixteen of the survivors are found alive December 20 but they have had to resort to cannibalism to survive.source

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