History of Argentina

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History of Argentina
Pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples in Argentina Inca Empire
Colonial Argentina Governorate of New Andalusia (1534-1542) Governorate of the Río de la Plata (1549-1776) Royal Audiencia of Buenos Aires (1661-1671), (1759-1788) Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (1776–1814)
Independence May Revolution War of Independence United Provinces of the Río de la Plata Congress of Tucumán
Civil Wars Bernardino Rivadavia Confederation Juan Manuel de Rosas French blockade of the Río de la Plata Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata
Rise of Argentine Republic 1853 Constitution British investment in Argentina Conquest of the Desert Generation of '80 Radical Phase (1916–30) The Infamous Decade
Peronism Juan Perón and Eva Perón General Confederation of Labour
Post-WW II (1955 to 1976) Revolución Libertadora Arturo Frondizi 1963 Argentine Navy revolt Arturo Umberto Illia Argentine Revolution Montoneros and ERP
National Reorganization Process Dirty War Falklands War (Guerra de las Malvinas)
Return to democracy Trial of the Juntas Raúl Alfonsín December 2001 riots Kirchnerism
Topics Corruption Economy Etymology LGBT Jewish Argentines Military Nationality Postal Rail transport Science and technology
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The history of Argentina can be divided into four main parts: the pre-Columbian time or early history (up to the sixteenth century), the colonial period (1536–1809), the period of nation-building (1810–1880), and the history of modern Argentina (from around 1880).

Prehistory in the present territory of Argentina began with the first human settlements on the southern tip of Patagonia around 13,000 years ago.

Written history began with the arrival of Spanish chroniclers in the expedition of Juan Díaz de Solís in 1516 to the Río de la Plata, which marks the beginning of Spanish occupation of this region.

In 1776 the Spanish Crown established the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, an umbrella of territories from which, with the Revolution of May 1810, began a process of gradual formation of several independent states, including one called the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. With the declaration of independence on 9 July 1816, and the military defeat of the Spanish Empire in 1824, a federal state was formed in 1853–1861, known today as the Argentine Republic.