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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. He was of controversial personality and his dictatorship is remembered in Bolivia mainly for its poor government administration and its abuses against the indigenous population, in addition to having signed unfavorable border treaties with Chile and Brazil in 1866 and 1867, which proved to be devastating in coming years.On January 15, 1871, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army at the time, General Agustín Morales, along with the support of the people of La Paz, tired of the president's despotic actions for almost seven years, rose up against Melgarejo and deposed him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mariano Melgarejo has received more than 68,491 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Mariano Melgarejo is the 12,741st most popular politician (down from 12,226th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Bolivia (down from 17th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Bolivian Politician.

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Over the past year Mariano Melgarejo has had the most page views in the with 83,644 views, followed by English (9,223), and Japanese (7,332). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Japanese (355.97%), Slovenian (58.95%), and Yoruba (43.62%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mariano Melgarejo ranks 12,741 out of 19,576. Before him are Andronikos Komnenos, Gheorghe Apostol, Ahmed al-Mirghani, Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, Johan Pitka, and Udo Voigt. After him are Nils Torvalds, Mohammad Ali Khan Zand, Ernest Courtot de Cissey, Martin Mutschmann, Faustina, and Nils Edén.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Mariano Melgarejo ranks 57. Before him are György Klapka, Pōmare III, Georg Curtius, Concepción Arenal, Juan N. Méndez, and William Howard Russell. After him are Nikolay Girs, Theodoros Diligiannis, Gillis Bildt, Carolina Coronado, Alexander Serov, and Lorenz Frølich. Among people deceased in 1871, Mariano Melgarejo ranks 48. Before him are Anna Sundström, Carl Tausig, Julius Weisbach, Louis Charles Delescluze, Édouard Lartet, and Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg. After him are Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Stand Watie, İbrahim Şinasi, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Alexander Serov, and Castro Alves.

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In Bolivia

Among people born in Bolivia, Mariano Melgarejo ranks 21 out of 105. Before him are Carlos Mesa (1953), Hernán Siles Zuazo (1914), Juan José Torres (1920), Gualberto Villarroel (1908), Germán Busch (1903), and Daniel Salamanca Urey (1869). After him are Ulises Saucedo (1896), Enrique Peñaranda (1893), Eduardo Rodríguez (1956), Hilarión Daza (1840), Adela Zamudio (1854), and Cornelio Saavedra (1759).

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Among POLITICIANS In Bolivia

Among politicians born in Bolivia, Mariano Melgarejo ranks 18. Before him are Carlos Mesa (1953), Hernán Siles Zuazo (1914), Juan José Torres (1920), Gualberto Villarroel (1908), Germán Busch (1903), and Daniel Salamanca Urey (1869). After him are Enrique Peñaranda (1893), Eduardo Rodríguez (1956), Hilarión Daza (1840), Cornelio Saavedra (1759), Hernando Siles Reyes (1882), and José Ballivián (1805).

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