1864 in Argentina
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Events in the year 1864 in Argentina.
Incumbents
[edit]Governors
[edit]- Buenos Aires Province: Mariano Saavedra
- Cordoba: Roque Ferreyra (starting month unknown)
- Mendoza Province: Carlos González
- Santa Fe Province: Patricio Cullen
Vice Governors
[edit]- Buenos Aires Province: vacant
Events
[edit]- 10 August – Uruguayan War: War breaks out between Brazil and Uruguay, despite negotiations involving Argentine Foreign Minister Rufino de Elizalde.[1]
- 25 October – establishment of General Las Heras Partido
- 13 December – Paraguayan War: Paraguay declares war on Brazil; war with Argentina follows three months later.[2]
- The classic aperitif Hesperidina is invented by American immigrant Melville Sewell Bagley in Buenos Aires.[3]
Deaths
[edit]- 30 October – Jonas Coe ("Comodoro Juan Coe"), US naval commander and supporter of Juan Manuel de Rosas (born 1805).[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Whigham, Thomas L. (2002). The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct 1. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-4786-4.
- ^ Scheina, Robert (2003). Latin America's Wars: The Age of the Caudillo, 1791–1899. Dulles, Virginia: Brassey's.
- ^ Paul H. Lewis (1990), The Crisis of Argentine Capitalism, University of North Carolina Press, pp. 59–60, ISBN 9780807818626
- ^ Pérez Calvo, Lucio Ricardo (2008). Norteamericanos en la Argentina. Pérez Calvo, p. 143. ISBN 9870553478 (in Spanish)
