Outstanding Events in Agentina
1998: November 2
In the city of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, the fourth session of the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change takes place until the 13th, under the auspices of the UN, a very serious problem facing humanity. The meeting will end with the adoption of an Action Plan, which will set deadlines for the finalization of agreements on the mechanisms proposed in Kyoto and the policies to be adopted. (23 years ago)
1994: October 21
An international arbitral tribunal rules in favor of Argentina in its conflict with Chile over a narrow valley between rectangular mountains 12 km wide and some 44 km long known as the "Lago del Desierto", a border area between the two countries of 530 square kilometers. (27 years ago)
1983: October 30
In Argentina, after the fall of the military regime, Raúl Alfonsín, candidate of the Radical Civic Union, wins the elections. During his mandate, until July 1989, he will have to face two major problems: consolidating the democracy that has just emerged from the dictatorship, permeating all areas of society with it, while monitoring the Armed Forces suspicious of any change and fight inflation and the debt crisis. (38 years ago)
1982: June 14
Surrender of the Argentine troops in Port Stanley (capital of the Falkland Islands) two months after the start of hostilities between Argentina and the United Kingdom. In the Falklands War, almost 700 Argentines and just over 200 British have died. (39 years ago)
1982: May 4
In the framework of the Falklands War, the British ship HMS Sheffield (type 42 destroyer) is hit in its control room by a French-made Exocet missile, fired from an Argentine fighter bomber. The impact is followed by a terrifying fire that causes highly toxic smoke. The ship sinks shortly after, resulting in 20 crew killed and 30 more injured. This sinking moves the British nation which will frustrate any possible diplomatic solution to the current controversy over the Falkland Islands. As if that weren't enough, a British vertical take-off Harrier was also shot down today. (39 years ago)
1982: May 1
In the context of the Falklands War, British planes carried out bombardments on two runways near Port Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands, which are currently occupied by Argentine forces. The objective of the attack is to prevent the Argentines from landing their supply planes or from attacking the British fleet in the 200-mile exclusion zone, decreed by the British Government. (39 years ago)
1982: April 2
The Argentine military regime, beset by serious problems, and to reestablish control of the internal situation, decides to invade the Malvinas archipelago, inhabited by just over 2,000 people, all of them British subjects, and claim their sovereignty. (39 years ago)
1982: March 19
During the Argentine military dictatorship of the government of Leopoldo Galtieri, whose prestige is clearly deteriorated with street demonstrations demanding freedom that are harshly repressed, and somehow needing popular support and diverting social attention from the internal problems that affect him. drown, today, a group of 50 Argentines lands in Leith Harbor, in South Georgia, a British colony very close to the Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic, and plants the flag of their nation, one more step in the provocation Argentina from the so-called "Operation Rosario" until the total invasion of the islands on April 2. (39 years ago)
1977: April 30
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Azucena Villafor de Vicenti and 13 other mothers demonstrate for the first time, and with great courage, in the Plaza de Mayo, in front of the government headquarters (Casa Rosada), to request information on their kidnapped children, tortured and murdered by the military dictatorship, considered the bloodiest in the history of the country, characterized by a constant violation of Human Rights. Faced with the police order not to stop or group together, but to circulate, the Mothers decide to walk around the aforementioned Plaza. (44 years ago)
1976: March 24
The Argentine army, with General Videla in command, gives a coup d'etat deposition of President Isabel Martínez de Perón, implanting an iron and bloody military dictatorship that will last until 1983 during which students, trade unionists, intellectuals and other professionals will be kidnapped. , tortured, assassinated or simply "disappear". (45 years ago)
1974: June 29
In Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, María Estela Martínez de Perón, "Isabelita", assumes the leadership of the State, due to the health problems suffered by her husband, President Juan Domingo Perón, who will die two days later. In this way, she becomes the first woman to hold the Presidency of her country. With it, one of the darkest periods in Argentine history will begin. On March 24, 1976, she will be overthrown by a military coup led by General Jorge Rafael Videla. (47 years ago)
1973: March 11
In the elections held today in Argentina, the Peronist doctor Héctor Cámpora wins the victory. He will assume the Presidency on May 25 and 49 days later he will resign from his position to allow the holding of new elections in which Juan Domingo Perón, who has returned from exile, can participate. (48 years ago)
1966: June 28
In Argentina, constitutional president Arturo Umberto Illía is overthrown by the Armed Forces led by General Juan Carlos Onganía, origin of the dictatorship called the "Argentine Revolution", in which the coup plotters claim to establish themselves in power permanently. (55 years ago)
1962: March 29
In Argentina, the Armed Forces confine President Arturo Frondizi to Martín García Island. They annul the elections and designate José María Guido, president of the Senate, to occupy the presidency in order to maintain an image of civil government. (59 years ago)
1960: May 27
In Argentina, the Israeli secret services kidnap the Nazi and war criminal Adolf Eichmann, transferring him incognito to Israel for a summary trial. (61 years ago)
1955: September 16
In Córdoba, Argentina, retired artillery general Eduardo Lonardi leads a military uprising against the constitutional government of Juan Domingo Perón. The coup extends to Buenos Aires and other cities. On September 19, Perón will resign requesting asylum at the Paraguayan embassy. Lonardi assumes power as provisional president of what he calls the "Liberating Revolution." (66 years ago)
1955: June 16
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, members of the armed forces and Civil Commands, made up of conservatives, radicals, and sectors of the Catholic Church, unsuccessfully try to take the Casa Rosada and take President Juan Domingo Perón prisoner. The president seeks refuge in the building of the Ministry of War and prepares to quell the rebellion. At noon, 20 Gloster Meteor planes of the Navy bombard and machine-gun the government headquarters and the Plaza de Mayo. The rebel pilots drop nine and a half tons of explosives. The balance of barbarism is more than 360 dead and about 2,000 wounded. The failed coup plotters flee to Uruguay, where they request political asylum. (66 years ago)
1951: November 11
In Argentina, after having won the presidential elections for the period 1946-1952, Juan Domingo Perón was reelected president. During this second term, he will face serious problems and will be dismissed by a military coup in September 1955. He will temporarily take refuge in the neighboring country of Paraguay. Later he will go to Panama from where, after a brief stay, he will travel to Madrid (Spain) and marry María Estela Martínez de Perón. (70 years ago)
1946: February 24
In Argentina Juan Domingo Perón is elected president, for the period 1946-1952, with 56% of the votes. Perón had been imprisoned in 1945, after a civil and military uprising, but the mobilizations of the workers demanding his freedom and the insistence of his wife, Eva Duarte de Perón, forced his release. In 1947, with favorable economic conditions and with the support of the General Labor Confederation, he created the Peronist Party. After this presidency, he will win the elections two more times, in 1951 and 1973. (75 years ago)
1944: February 25
In Argentina, Vice President Edelmiro Julián Farrell assumes power after the resignation yesterday of the dictator Pedro Pablo Ramírez due to the pressure received from the chiefs and officers of the garrisons of the Federal Capital, Campo de Mayo, Palomar and La Plata. (77 years ago)
1944: January 15
An earthquake in the city of San Juan (Argentina) reaches 7.4 degrees on the Ritcher scale, with the focus at a depth of about 30 kilometers, causing the death of between 8,000 and 10,000 people. According to investigations carried out years later, this death toll was due, more than to the violence of the earthquake, to the type of construction that existed at that time. Reconstruction will last until 1960. (77 years ago)
1926: February 10
The Spanish aviators Franco, Ruiz de Alda, Durán and Rada arrive in Río de la Plata (Argentina), where they are received as heroes, after having traveled 10,270 km aboard the Dornier Wal hydroplane, baptized as "Plus Ultra", and fulfilled the dream of uniting Europe with Latin America by air. The trip, which had started in La Rábida (Spain) on January 22, was made with stopovers in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Praia (Cape Verde), Fernando de Noronha (Pernambuco, Brazil), Recife (Pernambuco, Brazil ), Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo (Uruguay). They have been on the air for a total of 59 hours and 39 minutes. (95 years ago)
1908: January 27
In Buenos Aires (Argentina), shortly after the current National Congress building was inaugurated, President José Figueroa Alcorta ordered the police to occupy it for not approving the budget signed in the agreement of ministers on January 25. A federal judge will later decree that no public authority can by law occupy the Congress building by force or prevent congressmen from entering it. (113 years ago)
1904: March 13
In the morning, in Las Cuevas, an Argentine town in the Department of Las Heras, Mendoza, located in the Andes Mountains on the border between Argentina and Chile, the foreign ministers of both countries together with other civil, ecclesiastical and military authorities, They inaugurate the monument of Christ the Redeemer which will be a symbol of friendship between the two peoples. On the monument there is an inscription with a message from Pope Pius XII, which is read in this act by the Bishop of San Carlos, and which says: "These mountains will collapse first before Chileans and Argentines break the peace sworn at the foot of Christ. Redeemer". This symbolic ceremony puts an end to the tense disagreements that have arisen between both parties, which due to border issues have been on the verge of unleashing a terrible warlike conflict. (117 years ago)
1882: November 19
In Argentina, the governor of Buenos Aires, Dardo Rocha, lays the first stone of the city of La Plata, with the idea that it will become the maritime capital of the nation. (139 years ago)
1865: May 1
Although the war began in December of last year, the Triple Alliance treaty between Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay is signed today in secret in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina), to face Paraguay, ruled by Marshal Francisco Solano Lopez. The contest, which will conclude in March 1870 with the Paraguayan defeat, will be the bloodiest in South America. (156 years ago)
1864: November 12
As a consequence of the capture of the Brazilian ship "Marqués de Olinda" by Paraguay, in retaliation for the Brazilian invasion of Uruguay, a war begins between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina) that will last until 1870. (Makes 157 years)
1860: October 21
In Argentina, a national convention proclaims and swears in the Constitution, based on that of 1853, of which 22 amendments have been proposed and finally accepted. By article 3, of the new Constitution, the city declared by Congress by a special law is declared the capital of the Argentine Confederation, prior assignment of the territory by the corresponding law. (161 years ago)
1857: August 30The locomotive called "La Porteña", which pulls a small passenger convoy, inaugurates in Buenos Aires the first railway line to be built in the Argentine Republic: the West Railroad, which runs from El Parque, which is the current location of the Theater Colon, to La Floresta. (164 years ago)
1853: May 1
In Argentina, the Constituent Assembly approves the Constitution putting an end to civil wars and laying the foundations of the National Organization. (168 years ago)
1852: May 31
In Argentina, the National Agreement of San Nicolás de los Arroyos is signed, to lay the foundations of the national organization and a Constituent Congress is convened from where the National Constitution will come out, sanctioned on May 11, 1853 and promulgated on May 25, 1853. month to be sworn in on July 9 of the same year. (169 years ago)
1850: August 31
The Arana-Le Prédour treaty is signed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by which France, which has resisted to the end, undertakes to withdraw its forces from the Río de la Plata, concluding the economic blockade on the port of Buenos Aires, at the same time that it recognizes the independence of the Argentine nation. (171 years ago)
1838: March 28
A French squadron blocks the port of Buenos Aires to obtain freedom of navigation on the Argentine rivers, after the government of Manuel Rosas has decided to put a 25% surcharge on the rights of the goods that arrive from abroad bound for Buenos Aires. Aires and that have been transshipped in the port of Montevideo, and to achieve exemption from military service to French citizens. The French intervention will last for two years and will have important economic consequences on the Buenos Aires coffers. In October 1840, with the signing of the Mackau-Arana treaty (names of the negotiators), the blockade will end. The Argentine government will undertake to compensate French citizens and will also exempt them from performing military service. (183 years ago)
1837: May 19
In Argentina, which aims at the province of Tarija (now Bolivia) and the part of the Chaco territory that ranges from the Bermejo River to the Pilcomayo, Juan Manuel de Rosas, in charge of managing the foreign relations of the Argentine Confederation and governor of Buenos Aires Aires, issues a decree declaring war on the Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation. In addition, Rosas accuses Bolivian dictator Andrés de Santa Cruz of favoring the enemies of the government of Buenos Aires and even making deals with revolutionaries from the Unitary Party asylum seekers in Uruguay. The war will be concluded on April 26, 1839 with the military victory of the Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation. Shortly after the overthrow of Santa Cruz, (184 years ago)
1827: February 20
In the framework of the Argentine-Brazilian War (1825-1828) the decisive Battle of Ituzaingó takes place, near the ford of Rosario, which is located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (present-day Brazil). In this battle, the joint Army of Argentina and Uruguay defeats the troops of the Empire of Brazil, being the embryo of the Preliminary Peace Convention to be signed in 1828, by which Uruguay will be recognized as an independent, free and sovereign State. On the battlefield, the Brazilians leave some 1,200 casualties, 400 dead and wounded, and 800 prisoners; on the contrary, the Argentines and Uruguayans about 150 dead and 260 wounded. (194 years ago)
1827: February 16
In present-day Uruguay, Argentine and Brazilian troops face each other in the battle of Ombú for control of the Banda Oriental, which has belonged to Brazil since 1824. The Argentines, under the command of General Lucio Norberto Mansilla, attack the Brazilian troops of Bento Manuel Ribeiro , which are scattered. For this fact, Mansilla will be decorated by the federal government, and the commander of the Argentine forces Carlos María de Alvear, will be appointed chief of the General Staff. (194 years ago)
1822: January 25
In present-day Argentina, with the representatives of the four provinces, Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Corrientes, the signing of the Quadrilateral Treaty is concluded, an alliance against a possible foreign aggression, by Spanish or Portuguese. (199 years ago)
1821: April 5
In the Brazilian municipality of Bagé, the Battle of Camacuá takes place, a confrontation between Argentina and Brazil for control of the Banda Oriental. It will be Argentina's last victory in the Brazilian campaign. (200 years ago)
1820: November 24
After the battle of Cepeda, fought on February 1 of this year, the representatives of the provinces of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe, Generals Martín Rodríguez and Estanislao López respectively, meet today at the Tiburcio Benegas ranch, located on the banks of the Arroyo del Medio (Argentina), and put an end to the war between Buenos Aires and Santa Fe, by signing the Treaty of Benegas, which also establishes the meeting of a future congress in Córdoba. (200 years ago)
1820: March 22
In current Argentina, as a regional response to the problem of the anarchized country, the governor of the Province of Tucumán, Bernabé Aráoz proclaims the Federal Republic of Tucumán as independent from a central government, to become part of a Federal State with the other provinces . This adventure will last until August of next year. (201 years ago)
1820: February 1
In Argentina, in the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, the federals defeat the Unitarians in the Battle of Cepeda, supporters of a strong central government, as a result of which the General Congress will be dissolved and the Buenos Aires Cabildo will resume the control of this city and its provincial territory, at the same time that an interim governor will be appointed, which will imply the extinction of the national government. From then on, the provinces, still strongly autonomous, will continue a structure strengthened by a series of interprovincial pacts (Treaty of Benegas and the Quadrilateral). (201 years ago)
1817: January 17
Although they are leaving from the 12th, and will still do so until the 18th, today a column of soldiers under the command of General San Martín leaves from El Plumerillo (Argentina) to cross the Andes mountain range, one of the highest mountain ranges in the world, and liberate the peoples of Chile and Peru. In April 1818, by winning the battle of Maipú, they will ensure the independence of Chile. (204 years ago)
1816: September 13
In Buenos Aires (Argentina), in a public act in the current Plaza de Mayo, independence is sworn, declared on July 9 of this year by the Congress of Tucumán. (205 years ago)
1816: July 9
In present-day Argentina, in the Congress of Tucumán, Juan Francisco Narciso de Laprida, who chairs the session, asks those present: "Do you want the provinces of the Union to be a free and independent nation from the kings of Spain and their metropolis? ? ", to which the deputies answered affirmatively. Next, the Emancipation Act is drawn up proclaiming its independence from Spain, which is signed by the deputies who have come on horseback, in stagecoaches or carts, on roads in poor condition and for long days, and that the people will celebrate with joy. Even in the evening of the following day a gala ball will be held to celebrate it. (205 years ago)
1814: September 10
By decree of this date, in Buenos Aires (Argentina), the supreme director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata Gervasio Posadas, separates the province of Entre Ríos from that of Corrientes, separating them from the Government of Buenos Aires and setting their respective jurisdictions with their own holders. (207 years ago)
1813: May 11
In Argentina, the General Constituent Assembly approves the lyrics of the "Patriotic March" , the National Anthem, composed by Vicente López y Planes. (208 years ago)
1813: April 13
José Gervasio Artigas, from his camp located near the Ayuí Grande stream, a few kilometers north of the current city of Concordia (in the current Argentine Republic), dictates and sends to Buenos Aires his famous "Instructions", a program that represents a fair interpretation of the revolutionary movement that will give independence to America in which it claims the Declaration of Independence from Spanish power, civil and religious freedom, federative political organization, autonomous states, equality of the provinces through a reciprocal pact and, finally That Buenos Aires is not the seat of the central government. The diplomas of the Eastern deputies will be rejected by the Assembly, using the nullity of their election as a legal argument. (208 years ago)
1813: February 20
General Belgrano's forces defeat General Tristán's royalists in the battle of Salta, decisive for the independence of Argentina. (208 years ago)
1813: February 3
In the Argentine province of Santa Fe, the Victory of San Lorenzo takes place, in the homonymous town, by 120 grenadiers on horseback under the command of General San José de San Martín, who thus achieves his first triumph in American lands, a prologue to his brilliant military history in Latin America. The objective of the combat is to defend the coastline from Zárate to Santa Fé from the royalists under the command of the Spanish royalist Commander Antonio Zabala, who has just invaded the territory. (208 years ago)
1813: January 31
In the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina), the General Constituent Assembly is inaugurated, initiating its sessions and electing Carlos de Alvear as president. It declares itself sovereign, abolishes the noble titles, eliminates the mayorazgo, declares the freedom of wombs (the children born to the slaves are free), prohibits the tributes and personal services of the Indians and makes the coat of arms and the national anthem official. , but it does not declare independence since de Alvear considers such a declaration early and not timely. (208 years ago)
1812: September 24
In the vicinity of the Argentine city of San Miguel de Tucumán, the Battle of Tucumán takes place in which the Argentine forces under the command of General Manuel Belgrano, defeat the royalist troops of General Pío Tristán, who double in number. (209 years ago)
1812: April 4
For the first time, a General Assembly, called the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, meets in Buenos Aires, present-day Argentina, which declares itself sovereign and has representatives from the capital and the provinces. (209 years ago)
1812: February 27
During the war for the Independence of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, Manuel Belgrano flies the Argentine flag for the first time in the city of Rosario, looking for a visible symbol for the national revolution. To do this, it adopts the colors blue and white. (209 years ago)
1812: February 13
In the city of Rosario (Argentina), General Manuel Belgrano proposes to the Government the creation of a national banner in order to motivate the troops in the fight for independence, given that the Army corps use different banners. On February 18, the Triumvirate will approve the use of the white and blue flag. (209 years ago)
1810: May 29
The First Argentine Board, headed by Cornelio Saavedra, decrees the creation of the national military bodies, to ensure the "defense and self-determination of the Argentine people, and for their territorial integrity." (211 years ago)
1810: May 25
The so-called "May Revolution" culminates in Buenos Aires, which began on the 18th, due to the instability of the government of Spain, when a group of revolutionaries deposed the viceroy and organized a new government Junta, known as the first National Government that is considered heir and not enemy of Spain. This fact will change the course of the country and the mentality of its inhabitants, accelerating the independence process. (211 years ago)
1807: July 5
In Buenos Aires, present-day Argentina, the English troops are reduced by the Regiment of Patricios commanded by Cornelio Judas Tadeo de Saavedra y Rodríguez. The English take refuge in the Church of Santo Domingo where many are annihilated by the Creoles. Two days later, on the 7th, John Whitelocke will capitulate with Liniers and the immediate abandonment of all the invaders of the Río de la Plata will be agreed. Thus ends the second British invasion after last year. (214 years ago)
1807: June 28
In present-day Argentina, the English general Whitelocke disembarks with some 8,000 men in the Barragan cove and sets out to conquer the city of Buenos Aires, besieging it on July 4. Finally, on July 5, after a fierce fighting through the streets of the city, Whitelocke will lose more than half of his soldiers among casualties and prisoners. On July 7, the English general will agree to capitulate and will retire with his men from Buenos Aires. It will definitely leave the territory of the eastern band on September 9. (214 years ago)
1806: June 27
As a result of the alliance between Napoleon and Spain, a force of 1,500 British soldiers under the command of William Carr Beresford occupies the city of Buenos Aires, in what will be the first English invasion of the city. Six weeks later the English will surrender to the local militias led by the French nobleman Santiago de Liniers, in the service of Spain. In May 1807 there will be another second invasion, this time much better planned. (215 years ago)
1806: June 25
After the English invasions of 1763 and 1765, today, the British forces under the command of Brigadier Beresford began the landing on the beaches of Quilmes very close to Buenos Aires, Argentina, initiating the third invasion. Viceroy Sobremonte, who is in command of the Buenos Aires city, will try to defend himself but will be defeated. On June 27 in the afternoon, Beresford will arrive at the city fort where he will receive the capitulation of Buenos Aires. In Montevideo, the captain of the frigate Liniers will organize the reconquest and thus, on August 12 of this year, the army commanded by Liniers will begin the reconquest of Buenos Aires. Finally Beresford will surrender along with all his men. (215 years ago)
1600: January 24
The Falkland Islands receive the first truly verified visit from a Dutchman named Sebald de Weert. (421 years ago)
1593: April 19
In present-day Argentina, Francisco de Argañaraz y Murguía founded San Salvador de Velazco in the Jujuy Valley, after the founding of a city in the aforementioned valley has been delayed by the militant indigenous opposition to the entry of the Spanish, although What really had more weight was the fratricidal struggle that was sustained among themselves by the Spaniards of Chile and Peru, who wanted to achieve control of the territory of Tucumán. Later, during the wars for independence, Jujuy became the scene of battles between the Army of the North and the royalist forces. (428 years ago)
1588: April 3
In present-day Argentina, and following orders from Juan Torres de Vera y Aragón, the conquerors Alonso de Vera and Hernandarias de Saavedra founded San Juan de la Vera de las Siete Corrientes, now Corrientes. They have arrived at this place after 4 months of painful march and continuous siege by the Guarani. (433 years ago)
1582: April 16
In present-day Argentina, Hernando de Lerma, governor of Tucumán, following orders from the viceroy of Peru, Francisco de Toledo, founds the city of San Felipe de Lerma in the Salta valley, in order to create a stopover in communications between Lima. and Buenos Aires. The town will later be called only Salta. (439 years ago)
1580: June 11
The Spanish Juan de Garay, under the command of some officers and sixty volunteers, founded the new city of the Holy Trinity, the current Buenos Aires (Argentina), after the failure of the first by the advanced Pedro de Mendoza who did so in February of 1536, but after the siege to which it was subjected by the Querandi Indians, they decided to abandon it in 1541. Juan de Garay, as promised, distributes land and livestock to those who accompany him on this expedition and for himself. (441 years ago)
1573: July 6
In the current province of Córdoba (Argentina), the Spanish forward Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera founded on the left bank of the Suquía River, in a place called Quisquisacate, the village of Córdoba La Llana de la Nueva Andalucía. In 1599, the Jesuit religious arrived, settling there to make these lands their central point for evangelization. (448 years ago)
1561: March 2
In the Valley of Güentota in present-day Argentina, the Spanish Pedro del Castillo founded the city of Mendoza, and named it Mendoza del Nuevo Valle de La Rioja, in honor of the governor and captain general of Chile, García Hurtado de Mendoza. On March 28, 1562, the city was transferred very close to there by Captain Juan Jufré. (460 years ago)
1542: January 31
The Spanish navigator and explorer Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, while making a land expedition from the Atlantic Ocean to Asunción del Paraguay, discovers the Iguazú Falls, on the current borders of Brazil and Argentina, one of the most impressive natural beauties on the planet. , which will be declared a Natural World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1984. (479 years ago)
1536: February 3
The expedition of the advanced Pedro de Mendoza entered the Río de la Plata and founded a fort that he called Puerto de Nuestra Señora del Buen Ayre, this being the first settlement in the current location of the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina). The second foundation will be made by Juan de Garay in 1580, who will call it Ciudad de Trinidad. (485 years ago)
1535: August 24
The expedition of the Spanish admiral and conqueror Pedro de Mendoza, composed of more than a dozen ships and about 2,200 men, sets sail from the Cadiz port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Spain), with the mission of transporting to the Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina) a group of settlers, a hundred horses, build three forts and build a royal road from the Río de la Plata to the Pacific Ocean, all with the aim of winning the Portuguese in the race to obtain the riches that the legends of Indigenous. He will arrive at his destination in mid-January 1536, and on February 3 he will found in that place a port defended by a fort which he will baptize with the name Santa María del Buen Ayre, future Buenos Aires. (486 years ago)
1526: January 15
A maritime expedition sets sail from the port of La Coruña (Spain), led by the Spanish explorer Diego García de Moguer, to discover the route of spices. During his trip, in February 1528, he will explore the Río de la Plata (estuary in the Atlantic Ocean formed by the union of the Paraná and Uruguay rivers) to investigate the myth of the Sierra de la Plata and will enter the Paraná river, describing the towns that inhabit its shores and its wealth, for which the exploration of the estuary of the Río de la Plata will be attributed. (495 years ago)
1520: October 21
Magellan's fleet reaches a cape south of Patagonia that marks the strait that separates the South American continent from Tierra del Fuego. They have just discovered the passage to the west they are looking for. Later, and in his honor, this strait will bear his name. (501 years ago)
Outstanding births in Argentina
1928: June 14
Born in Rosario, Argentina, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinean-Cuban revolutionary, politician, writer, journalist and doctor, commander and ideologist of the Cuban Revolution. (93 years ago)
1919: May 7
In Junín, Buenos Aires province (Argentina), María Eva Duarte was born, an Argentine actress and politician who in 1945 married Juan Domingo Perón and a year later became first lady. It will win the sympathy of the people, and promote the recognition of workers' rights. He will fight for the female vote. (102 years ago)
1911: June 24 In the town of Rojas, Argentina, the writer Ernesto Sabato was born, author of novels such as "The tunnel" and different essays on the human condition. His novel "On heroes and tombs" , from 1961, where he exposes his vision of loneliness, will be considered the best Argentine novel of the 20th century and one of the top works of all Ibero-American literature. (110 years ago)
1899: August 24
Born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer, one of the glories of Latin American letters as well as one of the most prominent authors of 20th century Spanish literature, with works of short stories, essays and poetry, creator of masterpieces such as "The Library of Babel". (122 years ago)
1895: October 8
In the Argentine city of Lobos, Juan Domingo Perón was born, an Argentine politician and military man, three times president of the nation, and founder in 1945 of the Peronist movement, with great support among the working class. (126 years ago)
1852: July 12
In the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Hipólito Yrigoyen was born, who will be an Argentine politician and a leading figure of the Radical Civic Union and President of the Argentine Nation in two terms (1916 - 1922 and 1928 - 1930), being the first president of the Argentine history in being elected by universal male, secret and compulsory suffrage. In 1930 he was deposed by the first coup in contemporary Argentina. (169 years ago)
1846: October 11
In the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the lawyer and politician Carlos Pellegrini was born. In 1890, being vice president, he assumed the presidency of the nation after the resignation of its owner Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman after an insurrection called the Revolution of 91. (175 years ago)
1837: October 3
In the Argentine town of San Miguel de Tucumám, Nicolás Avellaneda was born, a lawyer, journalist, politician and statesman who will be president of Argentina between 1874 and 1880. (184 years ago)
1834: November 10
The poet José Hernández, author, among others, of the unique narrative poem "Martín Fierro" was born in San Martín (Argentina). (187 years ago)
1778: February 25
José de San Martín was born in Yapeyú, present-day Argentina, who will become an Argentine military man and together with Simón Bolívar will be considered the most important liberator in South America. His military campaigns will be decisive for the independence of Argentina, Chile and Peru. He will die suddenly in his retirement from Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, on August 17, 1850. (243 years ago)
1757: June 18
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas y Dávila, Argentine politician and patriot, was born in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina). In 1811 he joined the liberal patriotic society of Mariano Moreno, in favor of freedom of trade with Great Britain and for that reason he was expatriated to the city of Mendoza. In 1813, he will be part of the Constituent Assembly and will enter the second triumvirate. In January 1814 he assumed the position of supreme director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, a position he would hold until January 1815. (264 years ago)
Deaths reported in Argentina
2011: April 30
In the town of Santos Places, Argentina, the writer and essayist Ernesto Sabato, author of novels such as "On heroes and tombs" or "The tunnel" and different essays , dies . He was a great fighter against the Argentine dictatorship and was considered one of the greats of Latin American literature, not only for his novels, but also for his extensive essay work on the human condition. He was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 1984. (10 years ago)
2010: October 27
Néstor Kirchner, a lawyer and politician who ruled Argentina from 2003 to 2007, dies in El Calafate, Santa Cruz (Argentina) and at the time of his death he was president of the Justicialist Party. The former Argentine president had strong support among popular sectors of the population thanks to his economic policy that led to Argentina's recovery after the terrible crisis that sowed chaos in the country in 2000. (11 years ago)
1952: July 26
In the city of Buenos Aires, a cancer victim, María Eva Duarte de Perón dies at the age of 33, a controversial figure who won the sympathy of the people, and as first lady promoted the recognition of workers' rights and fought for the female vote. (69 years ago)
1933: July 3
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Hipólito Yrigoyen, Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union, president of his country on two occasions (1916-1922 and 1928-1930), dies. (88 years ago)
1868: January 2
Marcos Paz, victim of the cholera epidemic that devastates the capital, dies in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a great figure in Argentine politics, governor of Tucumán and Córdoba, and vice president of the Nation. (153 years ago)
1820: June 20
In the city of Buenos Aires (present-day Argentina) ravaged by civil war, Manuel Belgrano, creator of the Argentine national flag and one of the most notable economists, dies of dropsy and extreme poverty, as well as a forerunner of national journalism and promoter of popular education, national industry and social justice. (201 years ago)
