1879 in Argentina
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Events in the year 1879 in Argentina.
Incumbents
- President: Nicolás Avellaneda
- Vice President: Mariano Acosta
Governors
- Buenos Aires Province: Carlos Tejedor
- Cordoba: Antonio Del Viso
- Mendoza Province: Elías Villanueva
- Santa Fe Province: Simón de Iriondo
Vice Governors
- Buenos Aires Province: José María Moreno
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
- date unknown
- José Hernández publishes La Vuelta de Martín Fierro, the second and final part of his epic poem.[4]
- Eduardo Gutiérrez writes his major novel, Juan Moreira.[5]
Births
- 27 May – Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós, post-Impressionist painter (died 1968)
- 22 November – Julio Salvador Sagreras, guitarist and composer (died 1942)[6]
- 6 December – Rogelio Yrurtia, Realist sculptor (died 1950)[7]
Deaths
- date unknown – Juan Madariaga, general (born 1809)
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 November 2005.
- ^ According to http://raforum.info/spip.php?article261&lang=fr Archived 11 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine (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) Archived 12 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 8 December 2013
- ^ "The Yrurtia Museum" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 17 July 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
