1879 in Argentina
Events in the year 1879 in Argentina.
Incumbents
Events
- April – Conquest of the Desert: Julio Argentino Roca begins his second sweep of the land up to the Río Negro, aiming to "extinguish, subdue or expel" the Indians who inhabit the region.[1]
- October – Roca gives up his military career to enter politics.
- 10 November - Tandanor, a worker-owned shipyard, is founded in Buenos Aires.[2]
- date unknown
- Argentina's first anarchist newspaper, El Descamisado, is launched.[3]
- Aberdeen Angus cattle are first introduced to Argentina by Don Carlos Guerrero.
Arts and culture
Births
Deaths
References
- ↑ The Argentine Military and the Boundary Dispute With Chile, 1870–1902, George V. Rauch, p. 47, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999
- ↑ Argentina: Tandanor, the old dog teaching itself new tricks. The America's Intelligence Wire. 2 Nov. 2005.
- ↑ According to http://raforum.info/spip.php?article261&lang=fr (site of an extensive list of anarchist periodicals in Argentina)
- ↑ Jorge Luis Borges, El "Martín Fierro" (ISBN 84-206-1933-7).
- ↑ McGill, Carlos Rodríguez (2002), "El Juan Moreira De Eduardo Gutiérrez: entre el discurso hegemónico y lo performativo, y la construcción del imaginario popular Argentino", MACLAS Latin American Essays.
- ↑ Biography (Spanish). Accessed 8 December 2013
- ↑ The Yrurtia Museum (Spanish)
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- Falkland Islands
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- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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