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Argentina

202 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Argentina, 1800 CE to 2016 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

19th century

83 entries, 1800 CE to 1899 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1800In 1800, Argentina was performing well economically, slightly wealthier than the United States and Cuba.Argentinasource
  • 1801October 18 - Justo José de Urquiza – general and politician (d. 1870)Argentinasource
  • 1827February 20 – Federico de Brandsen, French-born military officer and veteran of Argentine War of Independence, killed in actionArgentinasource
  • 1851March 19 – Roque Sáenz Peña, President 1910–1914 (d. 1914)Argentinasource
  • 1852February 4 – Martiniano Chilavert, former Unitarian turned Rosas loyalist, executed by firing squadArgentinasource
  • 186413 December – Paraguayan War: Paraguay declares war on Brazil; war with Argentina follows three months later.Argentinasource
  • 1865May 1 – Treaty of the Triple AllianceArgentinasource
  • 1866February 15 – Juan Gregorio de las Heras, military leader (born 1780)Argentinasource
  • 186715 November – Ferrocarril Andino, the first state-owned railway in Argentina, is founded.Argentinasource
  • 18672 June – Pascual Echagüe, soldier and politician (born 1797)Argentinasource
  • 18701 March - End of the Paraguayan War. Following this, Argentina seeks to enforce one of the secret clauses of the Treaty of the Triple Alliance, which would have permitted it to annex a large portion of the Gran Chaco region. The Brazilian government, wishing to maintain Paraguay as a buffer with Argentina, it rejects the Argentine proposal.Argentinasource
  • 18711 January – The Civil Code of Argentina, written by Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield, comes into effect.Argentinasource
  • 18714 March – The Tribune newspaper reports that the streets of fever-infested Buenos Aires are so dark at night that "it truly appeared as if the terrible scourge had swept away all the residents".Argentinasource
  • 1872June 22 - Rudecindo Alvarado, military leader (born 1792)Argentinasource
  • 1873August 23 - Félix de la Peña, politician (born 1807 in Argentina, 1807)Argentinasource
  • 1875February 17 - Rómulo Sebastián Naón, lawyer, politician and diplomat, Ambassador to the United States 1910-1919 (died 1941)Argentinasource
  • 1878May 23 - chartering of Bank of the City of Buenos Aires as the Monte de Piedad in a measure against the prevalence of usury in Buenos Aires (mostly targeting the growing wave of immigration in Argentina)Argentinasource
  • 1879Argentina's first anarchist newspaper, El Descamisado, is launched.Argentinasource
  • 1879Aberdeen Angus cattle are first introduced to Argentina by Don Carlos Guerrero.Argentinasource
  • 188011 April – A presidential election results in the assumption of the presidency by General Julio Argentino Roca, who defeats the Governor of Buenos Aires Province, Carlos Tejedor. Thus the Generation of '80 begins its rule in Argentina. Under Roca's presidency, the so-called "laicist laws" (Leyes Laicas) are passed, which nationalizing functions that had previously been under the control of the Church.Argentinasource
  • 18807 January – Santiago Copello, Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Buenos Aires (died 1967)Argentinasource
  • 188112 October – Carlos López Buchardo, classical composer (died 1948)Argentinasource
  • 188519 December – The city of Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, is established, and a naval base created, to increase Argentine control over southern Patagonia.Argentinasource
  • 188524 November – Nicolás Avellaneda, 8th President of Argentina (born 1837)Argentinasource
  • 18861 February – Juan Esteban Pedernera, acting president in 1861 (born 1796)Argentinasource

20th century

98 entries, 1900 CE to 1999 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1900January 25 - Plague is officially declared in Rosario.Argentinasource
  • 190117 May – José Manuel Álvarez becomes Governor of Córdoba.Argentinasource
  • 190123 August – Enrique Tornú, physician and hygienist (born 1865)Argentinasource
  • 190212 December - Juan Alberto Montes, surveyor and historian (died 1986)Argentinasource
  • 1905May 21: demonstration consisting of thousands of workers gathered at Constitution Square and marched from there to the Plaza Lavalle, where the concentration was attacked with bullets and sabers. 2 people are killed and 20 are injured.Argentinasource
  • 191611 April – Alberto Ginastera, composer (died 1983)Argentinasource
  • 192714 April – An earthquake in Mendoza Province causes three deaths and several injuries.Argentinasource
  • 19306 September – 1930 Argentine coup d'état: José Félix Uriburu leads troops into Buenos Aires and carries out a military coup, ousting incumbent president Hipólito Yrigoyen.Argentinasource
  • 1934En la tierra del Guarán, directed by LumitonArgentinasource
  • 1940Ortiz, during his leave from work, offers his resignation to the Congress amid a political controversy. The Congress does not accept it.Argentinasource
  • 1940President Ortiz takes leave from work because of diabetesArgentinasource
  • 1941October 9 - Creation of the Dirección General de Fabricaciones Militares.Argentinasource
  • 1942Agustín Pedro Justo announces his intention to run for the presidency.Argentinasource
  • 1942Gillette and Helena Rubinstein start working in the countryArgentinasource
  • 1943Hugo Wast, ministry of education, outlaws lunfardo and forces many tango artists to rewrite the lyrics of their songs.Argentinasource
  • 1944The United States confiscate Argentine gold located in the US, and forbid commerce with Argentina.Argentinasource
  • 1955September- Major General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu overthrew Lonardi.Argentinasource
  • 1956January 22 – The Argentine Grand Prix is held in Buenos Aires and is won by Luigi Musso and Juan Manuel Fangio.Argentinasource
  • 196526 October – Operación 90: Argentina launches its first ground expedition to the South Pole.Argentinasource
  • 1973Furia infernal, directed by Armando BóArgentinasource
  • 198214–15 May: Raid on Pebble IslandArgentinasource
  • 198628 May: The Mantilla-class patrol vessel PNA Prefecto Derbes of the Prefectura Naval Argentina, set fire and sink the Taiwanese-flagged trawler Chian-der 3 at a location 24 nautical miles (44 km; 28 mi) outside the United Kingdom's Total Exclusion Zone, which covers a circle of 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) from the centre of the Falklands Islands. Two Taiwanese fishermen are killed, while four others are injured.Argentinasource
  • 19921992 Argentina rugby union tour of EuropeArgentinasource
  • 19934 July: Argentina defeats Mexico 2-1 to win the 1993 Copa America and their fourteenth Copa America title.Argentinasource
  • 1997date unknown - La Voz del Interior, the leading daily newspaper of Córdoba, is acquired by the Clarín Group.Argentinasource

21st century

21 entries, 2000 CE to 2016 CE

  • 20007 January: For the first time in 35 years, an Argentine expedition team successfully reaches the South Pole.Argentinasource
  • 200030 March: The government announces salary cuts of 12 to 15% for state employees, following pressures of the IMF.Argentinasource
  • 20007 June: Argentine state-owned company INVAP wins a bid to construct a nuclear reactor for Australia .Argentinasource
  • 20008 March: Heavy rains cause floods in Tucumán Province, which then expand to Santiago del Estero and Córdoba .Argentinasource
  • 200120 December: Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires. Violent incidents in Plaza de Mayo between protestors and police, and in other parts of the country. 26 people die. The president resigns. President Fernando de la Rúa resigns two days later.Argentinasource
  • 2001La cumparsita rock 72 band is formed in Villa Elvira, La Plata.Argentinasource
  • 2002January 2: President Duhalde announces the end of the 1:1 peso-dollar fixed exchange rate (convertibility) after almost 11 years.Argentinasource
  • 200327 February: Archbishop of Santa Fe, Edgardo Gabriel Storni, is accused of sexual abuse on a seminarist, and absolved from two previous similar accusations.Argentinasource
  • 200320 December: Former Argentinian president Carlos Menem is charged with tax fraud for failing to declare a Swiss bank account containing $600,000. If convicted he could be debarred from public office.Argentinasource
  • 200319 June: The retired's welfare administration, PAMI, is placed under temporal state surveillance to investigate corruption.Argentinasource
  • 200416 August: Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez invites Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to Caracas as a display of regional integration.Argentinasource
  • 20041 December: Archbishop of Buenos Aires Jorge Bergoglio calls an art exhibition by León Ferrari "a shame" and "blasphemy". Many of Ferrari's works employ religious icons and characters.Argentinasource
  • 20041 June: Minister of Economy Roberto Lavagna offers Argentine bond holders to exchange the debt with a steep discount (around 60% nominal).Argentinasource
  • 20053 February: Avowed feminist and militant atheist Carmen Argibay is sworn into the Supreme Court.Argentinasource
  • 2006The Argentine government calls the UK's decision to grant broad 25-year fishing licenses to Falklanders "illicit and unilateral", since the area is "subject to a sovereignty controversy".Argentinasource
  • 200710 April: Argentina's only icebreaker, ARA Almirante Irízar, catches fire while returning from her summer Antarctic campaign, 140 miles off Puerto Madryn. The ship is then towed to Puerto Belgrano, arriving on 20 April.Argentinasource
  • 200726 March: A massive storm system brings heavy rain to the center and south of Santa Fe. The rain falls almost continuously for more than one week. Large sections of Santa Fe City and peripheral neighbourhoods of Rosario, as well as many smaller towns and large sections of Argentina's most productive agricultural land, are flooded. The storm moves east, affecting the south of Entre Ríos and eventually reaching Uruguay. See March 2007 floods in the Argentine littoral.Argentinasource
  • 200823 April: Poet Juan Gelman receives the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honour.Argentinasource
  • 200919–25 January – Tour de San LuisArgentinasource
  • 201018–24 January – Tour de San LuisArgentinasource
  • 201610: Discovering of the Gancedo meteorite, the second-largest known fragment of the meteor shower that fell in Campo del Cielo, in Charata, Chaco Province, Argentina.Argentinasource