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November 16

Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on November 16 across the 1 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.

1 event 1 century 1 country
1532

The November 16, 1532 capture of the Inca Atahualpa

Cajamarca Peru

at Cajamarca was the single most consequential event of the Spanish conquest of South America. Francisco Pizarro (c. 1471-1541), the Trujillo-born Spanish conquistador, had received the 1529 Capitulación de Toledo royal grant authorizing conquest of the Inca-territory provinces.

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Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →