Age of Revolutions · TURNING POINT · 1810

Cry of Dolores (1810)

On the Age of Revolutions map as “El Grito de Dolores”

16 Sep 1810 — Father Hidalgo rang his parish bell and called on New Spain to rise. Within weeks he had 80,000 followers, and the revolt continued after his execution.

When: 16 Sep 1810
Type: Turning point
Chapter: Latin American wars of independence (chapter 10 of Age of Revolutions)
Atlas: The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848

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Map showing Cry of Dolores (1810), turning point in The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848 — TURNING POINT · THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS, 1775–1848

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Banco de la República: El proyecto grancolombiano · Natural Earth physical geography · Newberry Atlas of Historical County Boundaries: historical states and territories · Maps of History: Revolutions reconstruction decisions

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Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Selected, combined, reprojected and corrected by Maps of History as described per layer.. CC BY4.0
Efraín Sánchez, Banco de la República cultural network,2020; federal membership and 1822 Quito/Guayaquil accession.. Historical evidence citation; no map copied
Made with Natural Earth; present coastlines support physical clipping, not historical political boundaries.. Public domain
The Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. State/territory records unioned for the displayed date; disputed/joint territories excluded from exclusive US sovereignty.. Publisher permits commercial and noncommercial lawful reuse without fees; current terms supersede obsolete NC notice in archive
Maps of History: regional revolt/campaign footprints are inferred teaching regions, not surveyed fronts or homogeneous control.. Original educational reconstruction using cited datasets and historical evidence

Annual source outlines can combine imperial claims with areas of control. The labels identify the historical role selected, while dates finer than the source interval are made explicit in these details.

The US outline follows dated Newberry legal and administrative records. Other, joint and disputed territories are excluded from exclusive US fill. The outline says nothing about Indigenous consent or actual settlement.

Gran Colombia is represented by a proxy combining member footprints. The raw source’s 1824 outline includes Andean campaign areas, which are not treated as sovereign territory.

The earliest published Bolivian national footprint helps answer the 1825 naming question. It is a future-period reference relative to the unchanged December 1824 snapshot label, not a claim that independence had already occurred.

Displayed map state a 25 at 1824.95; chapter framing 1824.95. Where finer geometry is unavailable, monthly states use annual source references.

proxy: 1825–1835 source for the chapter spanning late 1824–1825 · proxy: 1834 member footprints used for 1824 federation · reconstruction: 1824.95 · vector: 1820–1829 · vector: 1820–1876 · vector: 1822–1824 · vector: 1822–1827 · vector: 1822–1845 · vector: 1822–1864 · vector: 1824-12-31 · vector: 1824–1824 · vector: 1824–1827 · vector: 1824–1833

Layer records and reconstruction methods