Free Province of Guayaquil
The Free Province of Guayaquil was a South American state that emerged between 1820 and 1822 with the independence of the province of Guayaquil from the Spanish monarchy. The free province had a provisional government and constitution until its annexation by Gran Colombia in 1822. Its successor was the Department of Guayaquil forming part of Gran Colombia.
The Spanish province of Guayaquil had been separated from the Viceroyalty of Peru and in those days it only depended legally on the court of the Real Audiencia de Quito. About a decade later, the Departments of Guayaquil, Azuay, and Ecuador separated from Gran Colombia forming the current Ecuador.
Territorial extension of the Free Province of Guayaquil later integrated into Gran Colombia.
Portrait of Colonel Jacinto de Bejarano y Lavayen, a precursor of the independence of the Free Province of Guayaquil (which currently forms an integral part of the territory of the Republic of Ecuador).
Battle of Camino Real. After its independence, the government of the Guayaquil province formed an army of 1,500 men to liberate the rest of the Real Audiencia, it was called the Protective Division of Quito.
Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín in the meeting later named "Guayaquil Conference".
The October 9 Revolution was a successful revolt against the Spanish Empire in Guayaquil on October 9, 1820. It was led by the General Antonio José de Sucre and directed by Simón Bolívar. The revolt established a revolutionary junta and created the Free Province of Guayaquil, an independent state. The independence of Guayaquil revived the war of independence of the Real Audiencia de Quito as part of the Spanish American wars of independence. Prominent events in the revolution include the uprising of the Spanish garrison in the city of Guayaquil and the control of the Pacific by the Liberating Expedition of Peru, under the command of José de San Martín.
October 9 Revolution
Felipe V, King of Spain.
United States Declaration of Independence.
Napoleon on his imperial throne, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1806.