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  1. Complete the sentence about Buenos Aires with the correct year: In ______, after the Argentine Civil War, Buenos Aires was federalized and split from Buenos Aires Province.
  2. Complete the sentence about Buenos Aires with the correct year: The ______ constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name of Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
  3. Complete the sentence about Córdoba, Argentina with the correct year: Córdoba was founded as a settlement on 6 July ______ by Spanish conquistador Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera, who named it after the Span…
  4. Complete the sentence about Córdoba, Argentina with the correct year: After four years, having repelled attacks by the aborigines, the settlement's authorities moved it to the opposite bank of the Suq…
  5. Complete the sentence about Córdoba, Argentina with the correct year: In ______, the religious order of the Jesuits arrived in the settlement.
  6. Complete the sentence about Rosario with the correct year: The Rosario-Victoria Bridge, opened in ______, spans the Paraná River, connecting Rosario with the city of Victoria, across the Paraná Delta.
  7. Complete the sentence about Rosario with the correct year: In ______, captain Luís Romero de Piñeda received part of the lands of the Pago de los Arroyos by royal decree, as payment for services to th…
  8. Complete the sentence about Mendoza, Argentina with the correct year: On 2 March ______, Pedro del Castillo founded the city and named it Ciudad de Mendoza del Nuevo Valle de La Rioja after the govern…
  9. Complete the sentence about San Miguel de Tucumán with the correct year: The Spanish conquistador Diego de Villarroel founded the city in ______ in the course of an expedition from present-day Peru.
  10. Complete the sentence about San Miguel de Tucumán with the correct year: After the national government broke down in ______, the town was capital of the short-lived Republic of Tucumán.
  11. Complete the sentence about La Plata with the correct year: La Plata was planned and developed to serve as the provincial capital after the city of Buenos Aires was federalized in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about La Plata with the correct year: Electric street lighting was installed in ______ and was the first of its kind in Latin America.
  13. Complete the sentence about La Plata with the correct year: On 18 October ______, the building was almost completely destroyed by a fire.
  14. Complete the sentence about Mar del Plata with the correct year: Sir Francis Drake made a reconnaissance of the coast and its sea lion colonies; Don Juan de Garay explored the area by land a few years…
  15. Complete the sentence about Mar del Plata with the correct year: After holding the Englishmen as prisoners, the Spanish returned Morris and his surviving companions to London in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Mar del Plata with the correct year: The first colonization attempt in ______ by the Jesuit Order near Laguna de los Padres ended in disaster.
  17. Complete the sentence about Mar del Plata with the correct year: On 19 July ______, the provincial legislature approved a bill that declared Mar del Plata as a city.
  18. Complete the sentence about Salta with the correct year: In early ______ the large expedition of Diego de Almagro passed through the plains of Chicoana west of the present-day city in its journey to t…
  19. Complete the sentence about Salta with the correct year: Salta was founded on April 16, ______, by the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma, who intended the settlement to be an outpost between Lima…
  20. Complete the sentence about Santa Fe, Argentina with the correct year: Santa Fe put itself on the international sports map as one of the host cities of the ______ FIBA World Championship.
  21. Complete the sentence about Resistencia, Chaco with the correct year: The national government supported immigration, and in ______ the first Italian immigrants arrived.
  22. Complete the sentence about Neuquén with the correct year: Founded in ______, it is the newest provincial capital city in Argentina.
  23. Complete the sentence about Neuquén with the correct year: Since ______, it was used for the railway station of the town, which at that time was a hamlet called Confluencia.
  24. Complete the sentence about Ushuaia with the correct year: The act creating the subprefecture in ______ cites the name "Oshovia", one of the many orthographic variations of the word.
  25. Complete the sentence about Ushuaia with the correct year: The British ship HMS Beagle, under the command of Captain Robert FitzRoy, first reached the channel on January 29, ______, during its maiden…
  26. Complete the sentence about Jujuy with the correct year: In late ______ Jujuy was the site of a confrontation between a party of Diego de Almagro's expedition to Chile and local indigenous men.
  27. Complete the sentence about Jujuy with the correct year: The town became the capital of Jujuy Province when the latter separated from Salta Province in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Jujuy with the correct year: The ______ Jujuy earthquake leveled the town, and it recovered slowly in the following decades.
  29. Complete the sentence about Jujuy with the correct year: Jujuy began to grow following the arrival of the Northern Central Railway in ______.
  30. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Construction began on March 20, ______, and it was finished on May 23 of the same year.
  31. Complete the sentence about Obelisco de Buenos Aires with the correct year: On February 20, ______, Roberto María Ortiz succeeded Justo as president and appointed Arturo Goyeneche as the new mayor of…
  32. Complete the sentence about Obelisco de Buenos Aires with the correct year: In June ______, the city council sanctioned the demolition of the Obelisco, citing economic, aesthetic and public safety rea…
  33. Complete the sentence about Obelisco de Buenos Aires with the correct year: In that church the Argentine flag was officially hoisted for the first time in Buenos Aires, in ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Casa Rosada with the correct year: Under the direction of British Argentine architect Edward Taylor, the Italianate structure was Buenos Aires' largest building from ______…
  35. Complete the sentence about Casa Rosada with the correct year: Following works to integrate the two structures, Roca had architect Francesco Tamburini build the iconic Italianate archway between the t…
  36. Complete the sentence about Casa Rosada with the correct year: A Historical Museum was created in ______ to display presidential memorabilia and selected belongings, such as sashes, batons, books, fur…
  37. Complete the sentence about Plaza de Mayo with the correct year: The modern plaza took form in ______ when the colonnade separating the Plaza de la Victoria and the Plaza del Fuerte was demolished.
  38. Complete the sentence about Plaza de Mayo with the correct year: In ______, the local governor purchased the eastern half for inclusion into the grounds of the city's new fort; this section soon becam…
  39. Complete the sentence about Plaza de Mayo with the correct year: Completed in ______, the Romanesque structure became the plaza's market and the lot to the west of the colonnade became the Plaza de la…
  40. Complete the sentence about Recoleta Cemetery with the correct year: The order was disbanded in ______, and the garden of the convent converted into the first public cemetery in Buenos Aires.
  41. Complete the sentence about Recoleta Cemetery with the correct year: The cemetery was last remodeled in ______, while Torcuato de Alvear was mayor of the city, by the Italian architect Juan Antonio Bu…
  42. Complete the sentence about Teatro Colón with the correct year: The present Colón replaced an original theatre which opened in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Teatro Colón with the correct year: The theatre was declared a National Historic Monument in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Palermo, Buenos Aires with the correct year: Juan Manuel de Rosas built a country residence there which was confiscated after his fall in ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about San Telmo, Buenos Aires with the correct year: San Telmo began to improve despite these challenges, particularly after Rosas' removal from power in ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about San Telmo, Buenos Aires with the correct year: The large numbers of Russians in San Telmo and elsewhere in Buenos Aires led to the consecration of Argentina's first Russian…
  47. Complete the sentence about Puerto Madero with the correct year: In ______, the national government contracted the local businessman Eduardo Madero to take charge of the construction of a new port whi…
  48. Complete the sentence about Puerto Madero with the correct year: The New Port of Buenos Aires was completed in ______, making the existing Madero docks superfluous.
  49. Complete the sentence about Iguazú Falls with the correct year: The first European to record the existence of the falls was the Spanish Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Perito Moreno Glacier with the correct year: In ______, the Boundary Treaty between Chile and Argentina was signed, which defined the boundaries of both countries in the An…
  51. Complete the sentence about Perito Moreno Glacier with the correct year: Evidence from tree rings on the shorelines indicates that there were no major damming and rupture events of the Brazo Rico from…
  52. Complete the sentence about Los Glaciares National Park with the correct year: Established on 11 May ______, it hosts a representative sample of Magellanic subpolar forest and west Patagonian steppe b…
  53. Complete the sentence about Aconcagua with the correct year: The first recorded ascent was made on 14 January ______ by Swiss guide Matthias Zurbriggen, as part of a British expedition led by Edward F…
  54. Complete the sentence about Aconcagua with the correct year: The first attempt to summit Aconcagua by Europeans was made in ______ by a party led by the German geologist and explorer Paul Güssfeldt.
  55. Complete the sentence about Aconcagua with the correct year: The first recorded ascent was in ______ by a European expedition led by the American mountaineer Edward FitzGerald.
  56. Complete the sentence about Cerro Fitz Roy with the correct year: The first Europeans recorded as seeing Mount Fitz Roy were the Spanish explorer Antonio de Viedma and his companions, who reached the…
  57. Complete the sentence about Cerro Fitz Roy with the correct year: The surveyors had no differences in the area between Mount Fitz Roy and Cerro Stokes, unlike other territories that were subject to ar…
  58. Complete the sentence about Quebrada de Humahuaca with the correct year: The Quebrada de Humahuaca was designated a protected landscape in ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Ischigualasto Provincial Park with the correct year: In ______, UNESCO included Ischigualasto and Talampaya National Park among its World Heritage Sites.
  60. Complete the sentence about Ischigualasto Provincial Park with the correct year: The first paleontological description of Ischigualasto dates from ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Ischigualasto Provincial Park with the correct year: The region received for the first time the name Valle de la Luna in ______, in a publication edited by the Automobil Cl…
  62. Complete the sentence about Nahuel Huapi National Park with the correct year: The total surface of the incipient national park in ______ surpassed that of the donations of Perito Moreno.
  63. Complete the sentence about Nahuel Huapi National Park with the correct year: At the same time in ______ the Iguazú National Park was established in Argentina.
  64. Complete the sentence about Nahuel Huapi National Park with the correct year: In the first year of the National Park Service, ______, several regulations were implemented that affected Nahuel Huapi.
  65. Complete the sentence about Tierra del Fuego with the correct year: Europeans first explored the islands during Ferdinand Magellan's expedition of ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Tierra del Fuego with the correct year: In ______, Francisco de Hoces was the first to speculate that Tierra del Fuego was one or more islands rather than part of what was…
  67. Complete the sentence about Tierra del Fuego with the correct year: Anglican missionaries, who had established missions on Keppel Island in ______, established new missions in at Ushuaia.
  68. Complete the sentence about Río de la Plata with the correct year: The first European colony was the city of Buenos Aires, founded by Pedro de Mendoza on 2 February ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Río de la Plata with the correct year: The area was visited by Francis Drake's fleet in early ______, in the early stages of his circumnavigation.
  70. Complete the sentence about Río de la Plata with the correct year: Buenos Aires was re-founded by Juan de Garay on 11 June ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Paraná River with the correct year: The first European to go up the Paraná River was the Venetian explorer Sebastian Cabot, in ______, while working for Spain.
  72. Complete the sentence about Paraná River with the correct year: The falls were flooded, however, by the construction of the Itaipu Dam, which began operating in ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Paraná River with the correct year: The bilateral agreement between Argentina and Paraguay for the construction of a bridge over the river was signed in October ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Uruguay River with the correct year: According to a ______ treaty, Argentina and Uruguay were supposed to jointly agree on matters relating to the Uruguay River.
  75. Complete the sentence about Uruguay River with the correct year: In ______, Argentina brought the dispute before the International Court of Justice.
  76. Complete the sentence about Uruguay River with the correct year: The ICJ completed hearings between Argentina and Uruguay regarding the dispute on October 2, ______.
  77. Complete the sentence about Río Negro with the correct year: In ______ the inland area of the river was reached by Spanish explorers departing from Buenos Aires in search of the mythical City of the C…
  78. Complete the sentence about Lake Nahuel Huapi with the correct year: The June ______ eruption of the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcanic complex, in neighboring Chile, caused parts of the lake's surface to…
  79. Complete the sentence about Lake Nahuel Huapi with the correct year: The son of real-estate businessman Primo Capraro sold the property to architect Alejandro Bustillo, who designed the house in early…
  80. Complete the sentence about Mar Chiquita Lake with the correct year: In June ______, the surrounding wetlands and the lake were officially designated as Ansenuza National Park, becoming the largest na…
  81. Complete the sentence about Beagle Channel with the correct year: By the terms of a Treaty of Peace and Friendship of ______ between Chile and Argentina the islands are now part of Chile.
  82. Complete the sentence about Strait of Magellan with the correct year: The name of the strait dates to ______, when the Spanish expedition of the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan brought the fir…
  83. Complete the sentence about Strait of Magellan with the correct year: Magellan's ships entered the strait on All Saints' Day, 1 November ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Falkland Islands with the correct year: Britain reasserted its rule in ______, but Argentina maintains its claim to the islands.
  85. Complete the sentence about Falkland Islands with the correct year: In April ______, Argentine military forces invaded the islands.
  86. Complete the sentence about Falkland Islands with the correct year: The name Falkland was applied to the channel by John Strong, captain of an English expedition that landed on the islands in ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Falkland Islands with the correct year: The name Falklands was not applied to the islands until ______, when British captain John Byron of the Royal Navy claimed them for K…
  88. Complete the sentence about South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands with the correct year: The territory of "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands" was formed in ______; previously, it had…
  89. Complete the sentence about South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands with the correct year: The Argentine claim over South Georgia contributed to the ______ Falklands War, during which Argentine f…
  90. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The commercial Spanish ship León, operating out of Saint-Malo, sighted it on 28 June or 29 June ______.
  91. Complete the sentence with the correct year: James Cook circumnavigated the island in ______ and made the first landing.
  92. Complete the sentence about South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands with the correct year: British arrangements for the government of South Georgia were established under ______ British letters p…
  93. Complete the sentence about Argentine Antarctica with the correct year: José María Sobral was the first Argentine to set foot on Antarctica in ______, where he spent two seasons with the Swedish Antar…
  94. Complete the sentence about Argentine Antarctica with the correct year: Shortly afterward, in ______, the Orcadas Permanent Base was established.
  95. Complete the sentence about Argentine Antarctica with the correct year: The first Argentine expedition to reach the South Pole was the ______ Operación 90.
  96. Complete the sentence about Argentine Antarctica with the correct year: The Argentine Navy took possession of the hut in ______ and named it Refugio Suecia.
  97. Complete the sentence about Cerro Torre with the correct year: Cesare Maestri claimed in ______ that he and Toni Egger had reached the summit and that Egger had been swept to his death by an avalanche…
  98. Complete the sentence about Cerro Torre with the correct year: Maestri went back to Cerro Torre in ______ with Ezio Alimonta, Daniele Angeli, Claudio Baldessarri, Carlo Claus and Pietro Vidi, trying a…
  99. Complete the sentence about Cerro Torre with the correct year: The route Maestri followed is now known as the Compressor route and was climbed to the summit in ______ by Jim Bridwell and Steve Brewer.
  100. Complete the sentence about Cerro Torre with the correct year: The first undisputed ascent was made in ______ by the "Ragni di Lecco" climbers Daniele Chiappa, Mario Conti, Casimiro Ferrari, and Pino…

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