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Events on Saturday 6 August 1825 1
1825Bolivia Declares IndependenceCongress at Chuquisaca proclaims a new republicOn 6 August 1825, a congress meeting at Chuquisaca (Sucre) declared the independence of Upper Peru from Spain, forming the republic that would be named Bolivia after the Latin American liberator. The declaration followed the military campaigns of Antonio Jose de Sucre during the wider wars of South American independence.