THE DAY IN HISTORY · DECEMBER 9
December 9 in history
What happened on December 9: 1 moment from the Maps of History atlases, in 1824, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Ayacucho
9 Dec 1824 — Sucre, outnumbered, annihilates the last royalist army in the Americas. Three centuries of Spanish rule end on this Andean plateau.
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