Peru's+independence

The Independence Day of Peru is celebrated on 28, July celebrate the anniversary of Peru's independence from Spanish in the year 1824 (April). The Peruvian independence was first declared in 1821 by the Argentine liberator, General Jose de San Martin but absolute independence was gained only in 1824. On the Independence Day of Peru, every citizen pays tribute to the great patriots like Tupic Amaru, Pumacahua, Aguilar, and Micaela Bastidas, for all the sacrifices they made in order to re-instate the country's independence.

After independence, Peru and its neighbors began a territorial argument Chile's victory over Peru and Bolivia in the War of the Pacific (1879-83) resulted in a territorial settlement in which Peru ceded the department of Tarapaca and the provinces of Tacna and Arica to Chile. In 1929, Chile returned Tacna to Peru(April). Following a clash between Peru and Ecuador in 1941(April), the Rio Protocol--of which the United States is one of four guarantors (along with Argentina, Brazil and Chile). Continuing boundary disagreements led to brief armed conflicts in early 1981 and early 1995, but in 1998 the governments of Peru and Ecuador signed an historic peace treaty and demarcated the border. In late 1999, the governments of Peru and Chile took the last outstanding article of their 1929 border agreement. Peru's independence is very well known to many of their neighboring countries (April). This is because it was different from many others. They had "outsider" play a huge part in it. This was not what countries usually did which is way Peru is so noticed for it.