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Mariano Melgarejo

1820 - 1871

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Manuel Mariano Melgarejo Valencia (13 April 1820 – 23 November 1871) was a Bolivian military officer and politician who served as the fifteenth president of Bolivia from December 28, 1864, until his fall on January 15, 1871. He assumed power in 1864 after staging a coup d'état against president José María de Achá, thus beginning six-year dictatorship, popularly known as the Sexenio. He would cement his power after personally killing former president Manuel Isidoro Belzu in 1865. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mariano Melgarejo has received more than 69,388 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Mariano Melgarejo is the 12,268th most popular politician (down from 10,652nd in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Bolivia (down from 14th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Bolivian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mariano Melgarejo ranks 12,268 out of 15,577Before him are Nikola Kljusev, Jorge Montt, Rain-in-the-Face, Lucius Aurelius Cotta, Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, and Ali-Morad Khan Zand. After him are Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Anaxandridas I, Mariano Moreno, Maria del Mar Bonet, Ludo Martens, and José Santos Zelaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Mariano Melgarejo ranks 52Before him are Arvid Posse, Mkrtich Khrimian, Alexander Serov, Concepción Arenal, William Howard Russell, and Duke Eugen of Württemberg. After him are Ghevont Alishan, Lorenz Frølich, Josef Mánes, Pierre Nord Alexis, Theodoros Diligiannis, and Andrej Sládkovič. Among people deceased in 1871, Mariano Melgarejo ranks 45Before him are József Eötvös, Carl Tausig, Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, Louis Charles Delescluze, Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso, and Édouard Lartet. After him are Charles Francis Hall, Paolo Savi, Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Anna Sundström, Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, and Georg Gottfried Gervinus.

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In Bolivia

Among people born in Bolivia, Mariano Melgarejo ranks 17 out of 78Before him are Andrés de Santa Cruz (1792), Túpac Katari (1750), Juana Azurduy de Padilla (1780), Hernán Siles Zuazo (1914), Juan José Torres (1920), and Carlos Mesa (1953). After him are Ulises Saucedo (1896), Gualberto Villarroel (1908), Julio Terrazas Sandoval (1936), Jaime Paz Zamora (1939), Daniel Salamanca Urey (1869), and Germán Busch (1903).

Among POLITICIANS In Bolivia

Among politicians born in Bolivia, Mariano Melgarejo ranks 14Before him are Jeanine Áñez (1967), Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1907), Andrés de Santa Cruz (1792), Hernán Siles Zuazo (1914), Juan José Torres (1920), and Carlos Mesa (1953). After him are Gualberto Villarroel (1908), Jaime Paz Zamora (1939), Daniel Salamanca Urey (1869), Germán Busch (1903), Eduardo Rodríguez (1956), and Cornelio Saavedra (1759).