Argentine Republic
This article is about the specific polity Argentine Republic and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.
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Is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of 2,780,400 km2, making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world.
Establishment
December 1861: Establishment of the Argentine Republic.
December 1861: Buenos Aires rejoined the Argentine Confederation after the former's victory at the Battle of Pavón in 1861.
Chronology
Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation
Was a war between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Argentina, the Empire of Brazil, and Uruguay. The war began due to disputes over areas in the Platine region. Paraguay was militarly occupied by the Triple Alliance and lost around 30% of its territory to Argentina and Brazil.
1.1.Corrientes Campaign
Was the Paraguayan invasion of Corrientes during the Paraguayan War.
April 1865: On April 13, 1865, a Paraguayan flotilla of 5 ships (Tacuarí, Paraguarí, Marques de Olinda, Ygurey and Ypora) under the command of Pedro Ignacio Meza went down the Paraná River until they reached the port of the city of Corrientes, where they captured two ships that the 25 de Mayo and Gualeguay were under repair. The following day, a contingent of 3,000 men led by General Wenceslao Robles, transported by river, landed in the port and occupied the city without encountering resistance.
April 1865: Paraguayan, occupy Bella Vista, Empedrado, Santa Lucía and Goya in sequence.
May 1865: On May 5, a group of 2,500 soldiers under the command of Major Pedro Duarte detached from the column and occupied the city of Santo Tomé.
May 1865: On May 25, an Argentine squad made up of 725 soldiers, commanded by General Wenceslao Paunero, landed by surprise in Corrientes; after a hard house-to-house fight, the defeated Paraguayans withdrew from the city towards nearby Empedrado.
November 1865: Paraguayan military leader Francisco Isidoro Resquín carried out the withdrawal operations towards the northern bank of the Paraná throughout the month of October, which ended on 4 November.
1.2.Machaín-Irigoyen Treaty
Was a treaty that ended the Paraguayan War between Paraguay and Argentina, with large territorial cessions from Paraguay to Argentina.
February 1876: The Machain - Irigoyen Treaty was a border treaty signed in Buenos Aires on 3 February 1876 between Paraguay and Argentina. Concluded in the aftermath of the Paraguayan War, it was signed by Facundo Machaín and Bernardo de Irigoyen.
Was an Argentine military campaign directed mainly by General Julio Argentino Roca in the 1870s with the intention of establishing dominance over the Patagonian Desert, inhabited primarily by indigenous peoples.
January 1868: Argentinian conquests in Patagonia.
January 1877: Alsina Campaign.
January 1879: Military campaign led by General Julio Argentino Roca in 1878 in Patagonia, Argentina. The campaign aimed to conquer indigenous territories and expand the Argentine Republic's control over the region.
January 1880: Military campaign led by General Julio Argentino Roca in 1878 in Patagonia, Argentina. The campaign aimed to conquer indigenous territories and expand the Argentine Republic's control over the region.
January 1882: Villegas Campaign.
January 1862: On January 5, 1862 the Chilean authorities arrested the self-declared king of Araucanía and Patagonia Antoine de Tounens, who was imprisoned and declared insane on September 2, 1862 by the court of Santiago. He was expelled to France on October 28, 1862. He later tried to return to Araucania to reclaim his "kingdom" without success.
January 1894: The Quirno Costa-Vaca Guzmán Treaty was a secret treaty between Argentina and Bolivia signed in Buenos Aires through the Argentine minister Norberto Quirno Costa and the Bolivian envoy Santiago Vaca Guzmán. This treaty stipulated the Argentine renunciation of its historical claims on Tarija in exchange for the cession by Bolivia of part of the Puna de Atacama to Argentina, from the Quebrada del Diablo to the north along the eastern slope of the Andes. It remained unratified until 1893.
October 1898: The borders of Brazil with Argentina are defined by the 1898 Treaty (which is based on the Arbitration Award of 1895 ), issued by the President of the United States Grover Cleveland.
January 1900: On November 2, 1898, Argentina and Chile signed two documents where they decided to convene a conference to define the border in Buenos Aires with delegates of both countries. If there was no accord, a Chilean and Argentine delegate and the United States minister to Argentina, William Buchanan, would decide. As foreseen, there was no accord at the conference and Buchanan proceeded with Chilean delegate Enrique Mac Iver and Argentine José Evaristo Uriburu to define the border. Of the 75,000 km2 high plateau of Puna de Atacama in dispute, 64,000 (85%) were awarded to Argentina and 11,000 (15%) to Chile.
January 1955: During this time, Argentina was under the leadership of President Juan Domingo Perón. Teniente Esquivel was named after Argentine naval aviator Vice-Commodore Gustavo Argentino Marambio Esquivel. The station was established as part of Argentina's Antarctic research efforts.
January 1957: From 25 January 1955 to mid-1956, Argentina maintained the summer station Teniente Esquivel at Ferguson Bay on the southeastern coast of Thule Island in the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. This station was part of Argentina's efforts to establish a presence in the region during that time.
