| Arriving at Cajamarca on 15 November 1532, Pizarro had a force of just 110 foot soldiers, 67 cavalry, three arquebuses and two falconets. |
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| Atahualpa agreed to meet Pizarro in his Cajamarca plaza fortress the next day. |
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| By February 1533, Almagro had joined Pizarro in Cajamarca with an additional 150 men with 50 horses. |
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| In December 1532, a party of conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro defeated and captured the Inca Emperor Atahualpa in the Battle of Cajamarca. |
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| Shortly before sunset Atahualpa left the armed warriors who had accompanied him, on an open meadow about half a mile outside Cajamarca. |
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| There is no evidence that any of the main Inca force attempted to engage the Spaniards in Cajamarca after the success of the initial ambush. |
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| When Francisco Pizarro arrived in Cajamarca in November 1532, he sent a messenger to Atahualpa, proposing they meet in the main plaza. |
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| The first three Spaniards arrived in the city in May 1533, after the Battle of Cajamarca, collecting for Atahualpa's Ransom Room. |
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| After the Battle of Cajamarca, Francisco Pizarro sent his brother Hernando Pizarro to Pachacamac. |
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| At the end of their meeting, the men agreed to meet the next day at Cajamarca. |
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| The next morning, Pizarro had arranged an ambuscade around the Cajamarca plaza, where they were to meet. |
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| The news traveled back to Atahualpa in Cajamarca, where the army then learned about the Spanish incursion. |
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| Of the major battles fought, at Cajamarca the Spanish ambushed the Andean warriors and killed 1,500 without suffering any losses. |
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| When Pizarro arrived in Cajamarca, the town was mostly empty except for a few hundred acllas. |
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| The Spaniards invited Atahualpa to visit Cajamarca to meet Pizarro, which he resolved to do the following day. |
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| Since this could not realistically be accomplished in an open field, Pizarro had invited the Inca to Cajamarca. |
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| The victorious generals sent word north by chasqui messenger to Atahualpa, who had moved south from Quitu to the royal resort springs outside Cajamarca. |
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| The Spanish killed thousands of Atahualpa's counsellors, commanders and unarmed attendants in the great plaza of Cajamarca, and caused his armed host outside the town to flee. |
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| Atahualpa, in Cajamarca with his army of 80,000 troops, heard that this party of strangers was advancing into the empire, and sent an Inca noble to investigate. |
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| When Atahualpa was captured at the massacre at Cajamarca, he was treated with respect, allowed his wives to join him, and the Spanish soldiers taught him the game of chess. |
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| Atahualpa and his army had camped on a hill just outside Cajamarca. |
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