Spanish American wars of independence 1808–1833

Belligerents: Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Spanish Empire, Gran Colombia, First Mexican Empire, United Provinces of the Río de la Plata

Key battles

• Battle of Rancagua (1814)
• Battle of Chacabuco (1817)
• Battle of Maipú (1818)
• Battle of Boyacá (1819)
• Battle of Carabobo (1821)
• Battle of Pichincha (1822)
• Battle of Ayacucho (1824)
• Battle of Junín (1824)

Who lived through the Spanish American wars of independence

Well-known people alive during 1808–1833:

• Karl Marx (1818–1883) — German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
• Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) — president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809-1865)
• Napoleon (1769–1821) — French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) — German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882) — English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) — German composer (1770-1827)
• Victor Hugo (1802–1885) — French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) — Russian novelist (1821–1881)
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870) — English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
• Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) — Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
• Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) — Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) — American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
• Lord Byron (1788–1824) — English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)
• Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) — German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
• Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) — French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
• Richard Wagner (1813–1883) — German composer (1813–1883)
• Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) — Polish composer and pianist (1810–1849)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) — German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) — German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) — German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
• John Adams (1735–1826) — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 (1735–1826)
• Francisco Goya (1746–1828) — Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) — Italian opera composer (1813–1901)
• Michael Faraday (1791–1867) — British scientist (1791–1867)

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