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Order of the Sun of Peru

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Eligibility
  
All

Description
  
purple ribbon

Status
  
Currently awarded

Next (higher)
  
none

Order of the Sun of Peru

Awarded for
  
Civil and military merit

Established
  
8 October 1821, discontinued 1825 re-established 1921

The Order of the Sun of Peru (in Spanish: La Orden El Sol del Peru), formerly known as The Order of the Sun, is the highest award bestowed by the nation of Peru to commend notable civil and military merit. The award is the oldest civilian award in the Americas, first being established in 1821.

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History

The Order was originally instituted on 8 October 1821 by General José de San Martín on reaching Lima to recognize those who had distinguished themselves in the campaign against the Spanish Royalist. It was discontinued four years later, after many grantees started to use the award as a nobility title, similar to the earlier Castile titles awarded by the colonial government. All such nobility titles were abolished by 1828.

The Order was re-established in 1921.

Classes

The award consists of the following classes:

  • Grand Cross with Diamonds
  • Grand Cross
  • Grand Officer
  • Commander
  • Officer
  • Knight
  • Royal Houses

  • Emperor Haile Selassie
  • Emperor Akihito
  • Queen Elizabeth ll of the United Kingdom
  • King Albert II of Belgium
  • King Juan Carlos I of Spain
  • King Felipe VI of Spain
  • King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
  • King Olav V of Norway
  • King Haakon VII of Norway
  • King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
  • Queen Letizia of Spain
  • Queen Sofía of Spain
  • Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
  • Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
  • Infanta Elena of Spain
  • Infanta Cristina of Spain
  • Prince Michael of Kent
  • Takahito, Prince Mikasa
  • Kiko, Princess Akishino
  • Fumihito, Prince Akishino
  • Other people

  • José Mujica
  • Rafael Correa
  • Danilo Türk
  • Charles de Gaulle
  • Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
  • Roberto Dañino
  • Rosa Campuzano
  • Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold
  • Lee Hsien Loong
  • G.E. Berrios
  • Ernesto Burzagli
  • Gerardo Chavez
  • Juan Diego Flórez
  • Frank Freyer
  • Thor Heyerdahl
  • Dmitry Medvedev
  • Alexei Kosygin
  • Ramón Miranda Ampuero
  • Pat Nixon, 1970
  • Valentín Paniagua
  • Maria Reiche
  • Manuela Sáenz
  • Haile Selassie
  • Andrew B. Shea
  • Yma Sumac
  • Julio C. Tello
  • Pablo Grimberg Umansky
  • Ford O. Rogers
  • Donald Tusk
  • Disaku Ikeda
  • Somchai Wongsawat
  • Gian Marco Zignago
  • George Papandreou
  • Arturo "Zambo" Cavero
  • The 5th Marquess of Bristol
  • Plácido Domingo
  • Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala
  • Leonid Brezhnev
  • Paul McCartney
  • Jose Antonio Meier Espinosa
  • Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco
  • Sergey Lavrov
  • Guillermo Hillcoat
  • Valentina Tereshkova
  • Maria Rostworowski
  • References

    Order of the Sun of Peru Wikipedia