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    The Representation of the Landowners (Spanish: La Representación de los Hacendados) is an 1809 economic report written by Mariano Moreno, that described...
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    territory of modern Argentina was part of the Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, with its capital city in Buenos Aires, seat of government of the Spanish...
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    Mariano Moreno (category Members of the Primera Junta)
    of Álzaga against him. He worked for the next viceroy, Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros. He wrote the economic paper The Representation of the Landowners...
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    The British invasions of the River Plate were two unsuccessful British attempts to seize control of the Spanish colony of the Viceroyalty of the Río de...
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    Representation of the Landowners (an 1809 economic report by Mariano Moreno) and the role of the merchants to support the view that the May Revolution intended...
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    The United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (Spanish: Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata), earlier known as the United Provinces of South America (Spanish:...
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    Tucumán declared the independence of the United Provinces of South America, which is one of the official names of the Argentine Republic. The Federal League...
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    The Crossing of the Andes (Spanish: Cruce de los Andes) was one of the most important feats in the Argentine and Chilean wars of independence, in which...
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  • The Battle of Castañares was an 1821 battle of the Argentine Civil Wars. The cabildo of Salta deposed the governor Martín Miguel de Güemes on May 24....
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    merchants. The lawyer Mariano Moreno wrote The Representation of the Hacendados, an economic essay that convinced Cisneros to maintain the free foreign...
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    The Army of the North (Spanish: Ejército del Norte), contemporaneously called Army of Peru (Spanish: Ejército del Perú), was one of the armies deployed...
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    1st Count of Buenos Aires, KOM, OM (July 25, 1753 – August 26, 1810) was a Spanish military officer and a viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la...
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    Fourth Upper Peru campaign (category Campaigns of the Argentine War of Independence)
    The Fourth Upper Peru campaign was an unsuccessful invasion in 1817 by the rebel United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, during the Argentine War of...
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    Martín Rodríguez (politician) (category Argentine people of Spanish descent)
    of the general staff of the Army of the North, and later acted as the president of Charcas. Rejoining the troops, he participated in the defeats of Venta...
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    The Argentine Constitution of 1819 was a Constitution drafted by the Congress of Tucumán in 1819, shortly after the Argentine War of Independence. It was...
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    bank of the Paraná River, part of the Paraguay campaign of the Argentine War of Independence. It ended with a victory for the forces of Belgrano. The Primera...
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    The Representation of the People Act 1832 (also known as the Reform Act 1832, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act) was an Act of Parliament of the United...
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    The battle of Paraguarí took place on January 19, 1811, in Paraguarí, Paraguay, between the patriot army led by Manuel Belgrano and the Royalist army...
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    The Anniversary of the First National Government (Spanish: Primer gobierno patrio) is a public holiday of Argentina, commemorating the May Revolution and...
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  • The Congress of Tucumán was the representative assembly, initially meeting in San Miguel de Tucumán, that declared the independence of the United Provinces...
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    The Argentina Centennial was celebrated on May 25, 1910. It was the 100th anniversary of the May Revolution, when viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros...
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    The Battle of Salta took place on February 20, 1813 on the plains of Castañares, north of the present-day Argentine city of Salta, during the Argentine...
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    Domingo Matheu (category Members of the Primera Junta)
    He was a member of the Primera Junta, the first national government of modern Argentina, and the second president in the end of the Junta Grande from...
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  • José Darragueira (category Members of the Congress of Tucumán)
    and lawyer. He was a representative to the Congress of Tucumán which on 9 July 1816 declared the Independence of Argentina. Darregueira was born in Moquegua...
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    Pedro Medrano (category Members of the Congress of Tucumán)
    an oidor of the Real Audiencia. That same year he participated in the May Revolution at the Cabildo Abierto. He was one of the authors of the 1815 provisional...
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    hermitages, follies, grottoes, or rockeries on the estates of wealthy landowners, primarily during the 18th century. Such hermits would be encouraged...
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    The Battle of Cerrito (outskirts of Montevideo, 31 December 1812), was a battle for the War of Independence of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata...
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    The Liniers counter-revolution took place in the Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata after the May Revolution in 1810. The former viceroy, Santiago...
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    José Andrés Pacheco de Melo (category Members of the Congress of Tucumán)
    and priest. He was a representative to the Congress of Tucumán which on 9 July 1816 declared the Independence of Argentina. Pacheco de Melo was born in...
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    Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros (category 1810s in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata)
    Cisneros the reopening of free trade, entitled "The Representation of the Landowners". It is considered the most comprehensive economic report of the time...
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