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Principal dates of the Argentinian history

 



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1516

The Spaniards appear for the first time, following the Portuguese, in Rio of Plata.

 
1517
Ferdinand of Magellan, traverses the coasts of Patagonie and discovers the strait which bears its name today.

Patagonia
1536
Pedro de Mendoza melts the first town of Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires
between 1573 and 1580
The Spanish colonists start to arrive.
Juan de Garay took the bet to previously rebuild Buenos Aires, abandoned after an Indian attack.

 
between 1553 and 1593

Foundation of the following cities: Santiago del Estero in 1553, Mendoza in 1561, San Juan in 1562, San Miguel del Tucuman in 1565, Cordoba in 1573, Salta in 1582, Corientes in 1588, Rioja in 1591 and San El Salvador de Jujuy in 1593.

 
end of the 17 th century
and all with length
from the 18 th
3rd Ceaseless conflicts between Spain and Portugal.
 
1726
To avoid the consolidation of the Portuguese presence on northern bank, the Spaniards melt Montevideo (current Uruguay), which thrived and competed soon with Buenos Aires.

 
1627
It will take ten years for the Spaniards to overcome the revolt of Diaguitas in the sub-Andean valleys.

 
1685
A new revolt in the valleys calchaquis develops. The Spaniards spend several years to take again the control of the valleys.

 
1750 to 1756
Guaranis revolt because they do not accept the new division founded by the treaty of 1750 between Spain and Portugal.

 
1766

The Jesuits are expelled of Rio of Plata and of Paraguay, the theocratic Republic Guarani is definitively condemned.

 
half of 18 th
Buenos Aires commençe to be affirmed like principal urban centre.

 
August 1, 1766
The king of Spain creates the Vice Kingdom of Plata. This immense territory goes well beyond current Argentina, since it includes two thirds of future Bolivia, the North of Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.
Buenos Aires which is authorized to trade with Peru, Chile and Spain, takes a new departure.

 
1782
Creation of eight "intendances", it moderates the authority of the Vertiz viceroy... they support the development...

 
June 24, 1806
The English General Beresford unloads in Buenos Aires with the head of 1500 men.
The troops Spanish legalists ordered by the French of Linen oblige the Beresford General to capitulate.

 
June 1807
The English try a new offensive against Buenos Aires, the troops the Linen ones obtain a new victory.
 
May 25, 1810

End of the supremacy of the Spaniards 1st proclamation of independence in Buenos Aires.

 
July 9, 1826
Reaffirmation of independence by the assembly of Tucuman.

 
1820
The Portuguese annex "bandaged it Eastern", Brazil, independent since 1822, preserve this territory the war with Brazil becomes inevitable.

 
1820 - 1826
Bernardino Rivadavia animates in Buenos Aires an enlightened government and progressist.

 
August 1828
The Argentinian ones accept the independence of Uruguay.

 
March 4, 1826
Buenos Aires became capital official country.
During about fifteen year burst of serious conflicts, between Buenos Aires open to the new ideas and the provinces of the interior of the country to the preserving ideas.

 
from 1835 to 1852
Manual Juan of Rosas imposes its hegemony and an authoritative mode on the country.

 
July 9, 1853
The Argentinian constitution is adopted by all the provinces other than Buenos Aires.

 
1859
War between Buenos Aires and other states of the Confederation.

 
nov. 1859
Buenos Aires declares finally integral part of the Confederation.

 
 
The conquest of new spaces passed by the final domination on the Indians Pampas who frequently took the form of a genocide.

 
1865- 1870
The war of triple Brazil-Argentina-Uruguay Alliance, against the General Francisco Solano Lopez allows, at the end of a conflict which exterminated 80% of the population of Paraguay, the definition of the final borders dabs the North-East.

 
1862
Installation the European immigration policy which especially involves an important flow of migrants, originating in Italy and Spain.

 
1880 to 1900
The migratory movement accelerates. Two million immigrants come especially from the poor areas of Europe of the South and the Central Europe.

 
1900 to 1910
Two new million immigrants arrive. The population passes to 8 million.

 
1914

Buenos Aires exceeds already the 1.500.000 inhabitants.

 
1914
The obligatory vote with secret bulletin is issued.

 
1916
The radical candidate Hipolito Irigoyen triumphed without dispute.
New men come from the middle class arrive at the capacity, they are for the majority resulting from immigration, but they do not manage to reform the country sufficiently.

 
1928
H. Irigoyen is re-elected for one second presidency.

 
1930
The General F Uriburu reverses H. Irigoyen in September, it thus opens the way at one period of democracy under military supervision which was going to last more than fifty years.

 
January 1944

Neutral Argentina during the ¾ duration of the second world war declares the war in Germany and Japan.

 
1946
The absolute majority of 55% of the votes to the elections gives the capacity to Juan Domingo Peron.

 
1947
Voting rights granted to the women.

 
1949
Constitutional reform.

 
1952
Peron is re-elected with the presidency of Argentina.

 
1952
Death of Avoided Peron which played a dominating part with with dimensions of her husband.

 
1955
It is the economic crisis, the mode peronist cannot support the welfare state financially more.

 
September 1955

The opponents within the army force it to dislocate themselves and to exile themselves in Paraguay, following a military coup d'etat.

 
April 1973
Returned Peron of its exile to Spain is re-elected.

 
1930 to 1983
The military presidencies follow one another, on sixteen presidents, eleven are soldiers.

 
1976 to 1983
Arrests, tortures, assassinations, disappearances per thousands are the symptoms of the military dictatorship, of Videla, Viola and Galtieri.
 
1982
War of the Falklands between Argentina and the United Kingdom.

 
October 1983 Return to the democracy, following the victory of the radical candidate (UCR) Raul Alfonsin.

 
May 1989 Carlos Menen is elected with the presidency of the republic.

 
1991 Argentina generates with Brazil Paraguay and Uruguay Mercosur, Common Market of the south (from Chile joined this association)

 
1995

Re-election of Carlos Menen to the presidency.

 
1999 Fernando Of Rua is elected president of the republic with 48,5 % of the voices. Failure of the peronists.

 
2001 Serious economic crisis, the country is with knees.

 


 
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