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| 1776 |
| | | George Washington drives the British garrison from Boston, and moves south to protect New York | |
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| 1776 |
| | | Buenos Aires rather than Asunción is chosen to be capital of the new Spanish viceroyalty of La Plata | |
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| 1778 |
| | | The British adopt a new policy in the south, landing in Georgia and capturing much of South Carolina | |
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| 1780 |
| | | An Indian uprising in Spanish Peru is led by a descendant of the Incas, Tupac Amaru II | |
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| 1788 |
| | | Tiradentes (the 'puller of teeth') leads the first rebellion against Portuguese rule in Brazil | |
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| 1792 |
| | | The Brazilian rebel Tiradentes is beheaded in public in Rio de Janeiro as a warning to would-be revolutionaries | |
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| 1806 |
| | | The Creole militia of Buenos Aires drive out an English force which has captured the city | |
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| 1807 |
| | | The Portuguese royal family flees to Brazil on the approach of a French army led by Jean-Andoche Junot | |
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| 1808 |
| | | The Portuguese royal family and their entourage arrive in Rio de Janeiro | |
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| 1809 |
| | | With acts of defiance in Sucre, Bolivia becomes the first American province to rebel against the Spanish authorities | |
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