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Peru's Foreign Minister Elizabeth Astete resigns amid an uproar over secret vaccination before the country receives one million doses for health workers.
2021-02-14

France returns three archaeological pieces to Peru that were seized by French customs in 2007. The artifacts, which date from between 1100 and 1450, are two clay statuettes and a wooden spear that belong to the Chancay and Chimú pre-Columbian cultures respectively.
2019-06-7

A judge in Peru issues an arrest warrant for former President Alejandro Toledo for allegedly receiving US$20 million in bribes from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company, in exchange for a contract deal to build a transoceanic highway between Brazil and the Peruvian coast. Toledo denies any wrongdoing.
2017-02-10

Thirteen are killed and 34 others injured after a bus carrying Erasmus exchange students returning from the renowned Falles fireworks festival in Valencia, crashes near Freginals, Spain. The regional government of Catalonia said in a statement that, "... according to the latest data, the ill-fated bus had students from Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Italy, Peru, Bulgaria, Poland, Ireland, Japan, Ukraine, Holland, Belgium, France, Palestine, Turkey, (and) Greece."
2016-03-20

Archaeologists discover four prehistoric Ichma culture tombs in the centre of the Peruvian capital Lima.
2015-11-27

Peru declares a 60 day state of emergency in the Tambo Valley following violent protests against a mine project which has seen four deaths.
2015-05-23

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes the Peruvian–Chilean border, causing power cuts but no serious immediate damage. No casualties have been reported.
2012-05-14

Oscar Valdés is named as the new Prime Minister of Peru, after Salomón Lerner Ghitis resigned.
2011-12-10

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake shakes northern Chile and southern Peru.
2011-03-6

The main suspect in the murder of Stephany Flores Ramírez, Joran van der Sloot, confesses to her murder in Peru.
2010-06-7