Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on December 29 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
December 29, 1820 — under the leadership of the city's intendant José Bernardo de Tagle and predating both the Lima declaration (July 28, 1821) and the broader Peruvian independence struggle. Chan Chan is the largest adobe (mud-brick) city ever built anywhere in the world —…
is the largest in Latin America by container volume, processing approximately 4.4 million TEUs annually and ranking 39th globally.
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 →