El terremoto de 1746 y la gestación de la conspiración de Lima de 1750

• Autor: O’Phelan Godoy, Scarlett
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/193673
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/revistaira/article/view/26036/24502; https://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/193673; https://doi.org/10.18800/revistaira.202202.002
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: 1746; Earthquakes; Conspiracies; Social movements; Fear; Lima; Terremotos; Conspiraciones; Movimientos sociales; Miedo; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.00.00

This article seeks to establish connections between the natural disaster of 1746 and the Lima conspiracy of 1750, as part of the mid-eighteenth century context, when social movements of a certain magnitude underwent a process of maturation. The distress that the earthquake caused in the poor population, as a result of hygienic deficiencies, led to outbreaks of social unrest. From the riots of the Indian potters in the Santa Ana neighborhood in 1747, to the plan forged three years later by Indians and other social actors involved in the conspiracy, collective fear was used as a control mechanism and an opportunity for insurrection.