Argentine History and Politics

Argentine History to 1880

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  1. Which date is celebrated as Argentina's Independence Day?
  2. Which event of 25 May 1810 is celebrated as the start of self-government?
  3. Who designed the first national flag, raised for the first time in Rosario in 1812?
  4. Which Spanish administrative unit, created in 1776, had Buenos Aires as its capital?
  5. What name is given to the 1806 and 1807 attacks on Buenos Aires that local militias repelled?
  6. Who founded Buenos Aires for the second and lasting time in 1580?
  7. Which text, adopted in 1853, still forms the basis of Argentine national law?
  8. Which battle of 1852 ended the long rule of Juan Manuel de Rosas?
  9. Who was the first president elected under the 1853 Constitution, serving from 1854 to 1860?
  10. How many years passed between the declaration of independence in 1816 and the Constitution of 1853?
  11. Which general crossed the Andes in 1817 with the Army of the Andes to free Chile?
  12. Which battle of February 1817, fought in Chile, opened the way for the liberation of Santiago?
  13. The Assembly of Year XIII (1813) passed which measure on slavery?
  14. Which war of 1865 to 1870 saw Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay fight together against Paraguay?
  15. Who led the military campaign known as the Conquest of the Desert from 1878 to 1885?
  16. Which province did Juan Manuel de Rosas govern while leading the Federal party?
  17. Which writer and later president wrote Facundo in 1845, contrasting civilisation and barbarism?
  18. Which leader of Buenos Aires became president of the reunited country in 1862 after the battle of Pavon?
  19. In which city was a Jesuit college of the early 17th century the origin of Argentina's oldest university?
  20. Which leader defended the north against royalist invasions from Upper Peru with gaucho militias?
  21. What was the position of Buenos Aires province toward the 1853 Constitution?
  22. How many years separate the first foundation of Buenos Aires in 1536 from the lasting one of 1580?
  23. Which city was the capital of the Argentine Confederation in the 1850s under Urquiza?
  24. Who was the Spanish viceroy removed by the open town meeting of May 1810?
  25. Which sequence puts these events of independence in the right order, earliest first?

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