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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Argentina with the correct year: The Incan domination of the area lasted for about half a century and ended with the arrival of the Spanish in ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Argentina with the correct year: Europeans first arrived in the region with the ______ Portuguese voyage of Gonçalo Coelho and Amerigo Vespucci.
  3. Complete the sentence about Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata with the correct year: In ______, the Criollo elite revolted against colonial authorities in La Paz and Chuquisaca, establishing revoluti…
  4. Complete the sentence about Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata with the correct year: Meanwhile, the Governor of Montevideo Francisco Javier de Elío, appointed as a new Viceroy by the Spanish Governme…
  5. Complete the sentence about Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata with the correct year: In ______, the revolutionary patriots entered Montevideo, following a two-year-long siege.
  6. Complete the sentence about Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata with the correct year: The Viceroyalty was disestablished in ______ as Spanish political entity with the fall of Upper Peru and the death…
  7. Complete the sentence about British invasions of the River Plate with the correct year: A detachment from the British army occupied Buenos Aires for 46 days in ______ before being expelled.
  8. Complete the sentence about British invasions of the River Plate with the correct year: In ______, a second force stormed and occupied Montevideo, remaining for several months, and a third force made…
  9. Complete the sentence about British invasions of the River Plate with the correct year: A Portuguese colony was founded at Colonia del Sacramento, on the opposite bank of the Río de la Plata, in _____…
  10. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Peace of Basel in ______ ended the war between Spain and France.
  11. Complete the sentence about British invasions of the River Plate with the correct year: In ______ the United Kingdom judged it the right moment after the defeat of the Franco-Spanish fleet at the Batt…
  12. Complete the sentence about British invasions of the River Plate with the correct year: The last time a significant Spanish military force had arrived in Buenos Aires had been in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about British invasions of the River Plate with the correct year: In ______, John Pullen stated that the Río de la Plata was the best place in the world for making a British colo…
  14. Complete the sentence about May Revolution with the correct year: In ______, King Ferdinand VII abdicated in favour of Napoleon, who granted the throne to his brother, Joseph Bonaparte.
  15. Complete the sentence about May Revolution with the correct year: On 1 February ______, French troops took Seville and gained control of most of Andalusia.
  16. Complete the sentence about May Revolution with the correct year: The Argentine Declaration of Independence was issued at the Congress of Tucumán on 9 July ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about May Revolution with the correct year: The ideals of the French Revolution of ______ spread across Europe and the Americas as well.
  18. Complete the sentence about Argentine Declaration of Independence with the correct year: What today is commonly referred as the Independence of Argentina was declared on July 9, ______, by the Congres…
  19. Complete the sentence about Argentine Declaration of Independence with the correct year: The ______ May Revolution followed the deposition of the Spanish king Ferdinand VII by the Napoleonic French.
  20. Complete the sentence about Argentine Declaration of Independence with the correct year: When the Spanish monarchy resumed its functions in ______, Spain was determined to recover control over its col…
  21. Complete the sentence about Argentine Declaration of Independence with the correct year: On April 15, ______, a revolution ended the mandate of Carlos María de Alvear as Supreme Director and demanded…
  22. Complete the sentence about Congress of Tucumán with the correct year: Following the May Revolution of ______, the Viceroy had been replaced by the Primera Junta.
  23. Complete the sentence about Congress of Tucumán with the correct year: On April 15, ______, a revolution ended the mandate of Carlos María de Alvear and called a General Congress.
  24. Complete the sentence about José de San Martín with the correct year: In ______, after taking part in the Peninsular War against France, San Martín contacted South American supporters of independence…
  25. Complete the sentence about José de San Martín with the correct year: In ______, he set sail for Buenos Aires and offered his services to the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, present-day Argen…
  26. Complete the sentence about José de San Martín with the correct year: On 12 July ______, after seizing partial control of Lima, San Martín was appointed Protector of Peru, and Peruvian independence wa…
  27. Complete the sentence about José de San Martín with the correct year: On 26 July ______, after a closed-door meeting with fellow libertador Simón Bolívar at Guayaquil, Ecuador, Bolívar took over the t…
  28. Complete the sentence about José de San Martín with the correct year: San Martín unexpectedly left the country and resigned the command of his army, excluding himself from politics and the military, a…
  29. Complete the sentence about José de San Martín with the correct year: After the order he was expelled from Hispanic America by Carlos III in ______ based in Yapeyú reduction.
  30. Complete the sentence about Manuel Belgrano with the correct year: Belgrano favoured the May Revolution, which removed the viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros from power on 25 May ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Manuel Belgrano with the correct year: Though his army was defeated, the military campaign initiated the chain of events that led to the independence of Paraguay in May ___…
  32. Complete the sentence about Manuel Belgrano with the correct year: When José Gervasio Artigas and Estanislao López seemed poised to invade Buenos Aires, he moved his army southwards, but his troops mu…
  33. Complete the sentence about Manuel Belgrano with the correct year: Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano was born in Buenos Aires on 3 June ______, at his father's house.
  34. Complete the sentence about Bernardino Rivadavia with the correct year: Argentina's Constitution of ______ was promulgated later, but was rejected by the provinces.
  35. Complete the sentence about Juan Manuel de Rosas with the correct year: In December ______, Rosas became governor of the province of Buenos Aires and established a dictatorship backed by state terrori…
  36. Complete the sentence about Juan Manuel de Rosas with the correct year: In ______, he signed the Federal Pact, recognising provincial autonomy and creating the Argentine Confederation.
  37. Complete the sentence about Juan Manuel de Rosas with the correct year: When his term of office ended in ______, Rosas departed to the frontier to wage war on the indigenous peoples.
  38. Complete the sentence about Domingo Faustino Sarmiento with the correct year: Sarmiento was born in Carrascal, a poor suburb of San Juan, Argentina, on 15 February ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Justo José de Urquiza with the correct year: In ______, a constituent assembly adopted a constitution based primarily on the ideas of Juan Bautista Alberdi.
  40. Complete the sentence about Justo José de Urquiza with the correct year: Urquiza defeated the provincial army led by Bartolomé Mitre in October ______, at the Battle of Cepeda, and Buenos Aires agreed…
  41. Complete the sentence about Justo José de Urquiza with the correct year: Constitutional amendments proposed by Buenos Aires were adopted in ______ but the settlement was short-lived, and further diffi…
  42. Complete the sentence about Justo José de Urquiza with the correct year: Urquiza met the army of Buenos Aires, again led by Mitre, in September ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Battle of Caseros with the correct year: From ______ onwards, Argentina faced on serious internal challenges, resulting from disagreements over the proper form of governmen…
  44. Complete the sentence about Argentine Civil Wars with the correct year: But the Banda Oriental was invaded in June ______ by the Portuguese Empire, tying Artigas' army to the defence of the region.
  45. Complete the sentence about Argentine Civil Wars with the correct year: Nonetheless he could still order an armed response against the directorship of the United Provinces when they declared the centr…
  46. Complete the sentence about Argentine Civil Wars with the correct year: In May ______ he marched his army towards Concepción del Uruguay in Entre Ríos, but was ultimately defeated by September at Misi…
  47. Complete the sentence about Conquest of the Desert with the correct year: After Argentina achieved independence in ______, the provinces had numerous political conflicts.
  48. Complete the sentence about Conquest of the Desert with the correct year: By this time Chile had founded Punta Arenas in Magellan Strait in ______, which threatened the Argentine claims in Patagonia.
  49. Complete the sentence about Julio Argentino Roca with the correct year: Roca was born in the northwestern city of San Miguel de Tucumán in ______ into a prominent local family.
  50. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Before he was 15, Roca joined the army of the Argentine Confederation, on 19 March ______.
  51. Complete the sentence about Julio Argentino Roca with the correct year: In ______ he married Clara Funes of Córdoba, with whom he had seven children.
  52. Complete the sentence about Julio Argentino Roca with the correct year: From ______ he was commander of the southern frontier of Córdoba Province, with the mission of stopping the periodic attacks of…
  53. Complete the sentence about Triple Alliance War with the correct year: The war began in late ______, as a result of a conflict between Paraguay and Brazil caused by the Uruguayan War.
  54. Complete the sentence about Triple Alliance War with the correct year: Argentina and Uruguay entered the war against Paraguay in ______, and it then became known as the "War of the Triple Alliance".
  55. Complete the sentence about Triple Alliance War with the correct year: The guerrilla war lasted for 14 months until president Francisco Solano López was killed in action by Brazilian forces in the Bat…
  56. Complete the sentence about Triple Alliance War with the correct year: Argentine and Brazilian troops occupied Paraguay until ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Argentine Constitution of 1853 with the correct year: The current Constitution of the Argentine Republic dates back to ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Argentine Constitution of 1853 with the correct year: Despite several reforms of varying importance, the ______ constitution formed the basis of the current Argentine jurid…
  59. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Argentina with the correct year: In October ______, the Junta Grande, which succeeded the Primera Junta, enacted the Regulation for the Division of Power, b…
  60. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Argentina with the correct year: In ______, the General Constitutional Assembly was intended to declare a constitution but it could only declare the freedom…
  61. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Argentina with the correct year: Consequently, the Province of Buenos Aires left the Argentine Confederation until ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Immigration to Argentina with the correct year: The first law dealing with immigration policies was Law 817 of Immigration and Colonization, of ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Hipólito Yrigoyen with the correct year: Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen was born on 12 July ______, a few months after the Battle of Caseros.
  64. Complete the sentence about Hipólito Yrigoyen with the correct year: In ______, he worked at a judicial office that Leandro Alem and Aristóbulo del Valle shared.
  65. Complete the sentence about Hipólito Yrigoyen with the correct year: When he finished his secondary education in ______, he began his political life as a member, along with his uncle Leandro N.
  66. Complete the sentence about Hipólito Yrigoyen with the correct year: In ______, he entered public administration as a scribe for the General Accounts of the Office of Balances and Information, though…
  67. Complete the sentence about Infamous Decade with the correct year: The murder was depicted by Juan José Jusid's ______ film, Asesinato en el Senado de la Nación.
  68. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ Arturo Jauretche took part in a failed uprising, led by Col.
  69. Complete the sentence about Infamous Decade with the correct year: In ______, radical uprisings took place in Buenos Aires, Corrientes, Entre Ríos and Misiones, resulting in more than a thousand detai…
  70. Complete the sentence about Juan Perón with the correct year: In ______, Perón entered military college, and rose through the ranks.
  71. Complete the sentence about Juan Perón with the correct year: In ______, Perón supported the coup against President Hipólito Yrigoyen, a decision he regretted.
  72. Complete the sentence about Juan Perón with the correct year: Perón participated in the ______ revolution and became Minister of Labor, then Minister of War and Vice President.
  73. Complete the sentence about Juan Perón with the correct year: Political disputes forced him to resign in October ______ and he was arrested.
  74. Complete the sentence about Eva Perón with the correct year: In ______, at the age of 15, she moved to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires to pursue a career as a stage, radio, and film actress.
  75. Complete the sentence about Eva Perón with the correct year: In ______, shortly before her death from cancer at 33, Eva Perón was given the title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation of Argentina" by th…
  76. Complete the sentence about Eva Perón with the correct year: Eva Perón's ______ biography, La Razón de mi Vida, contains no dates or references to childhood occurrences, and does not list the location…
  77. Complete the sentence about Eva Perón with the correct year: According to Junín's civil registry, a birth certificate shows that one María Eva Duarte was born on May 7, ______.
  78. Complete the sentence about Peronism with the correct year: Since ______, Peronists have won 10 out of the 14 presidential elections in which they have been allowed to run.
  79. Complete the sentence about Peronism with the correct year: Due to economic problems and political repression, the military overthrew Perón and banned the Justicialist Party in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Justicialist Party with the correct year: Justicialists have been the largest party in Congress almost consistently since ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about Justicialist Party with the correct year: Censorship and repression intensified, and following his loss of support from the influential Argentine Catholic Church, Perón was…
  82. Complete the sentence about Revolución Libertadora with the correct year: In ______, a constitutional amendment sponsored by Peronism introduced a number of labour reforms along with unrestricted pres…
  83. Complete the sentence about Revolución Libertadora with the correct year: On September 28, ______, a rebellion led by Benjamín Menéndez, with members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, attempted to ove…
  84. Complete the sentence about Revolución Libertadora with the correct year: Meanwhile, a Christian Democratic Party was founded in ______ after several other organisations had been active promoting Chri…
  85. Complete the sentence about Revolución Libertadora with the correct year: On 16 June ______, 30 Argentine Navy and Air Force aircraft bombed Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires' main square, killing over 300…
  86. Complete the sentence about Isabel Perón with the correct year: Perón was then placed under house arrest for five years before she was exiled to Spain in ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Isabel Perón with the correct year: After democracy was restored in Argentina in ______, she was a guest of honor at President Raúl Alfonsín's inauguration.
  88. Complete the sentence about Dirty War with the correct year: In the decades before the ______ coup, the Argentine military, along with the supporting Argentine establishment, opposed Juan Perón's popu…
  89. Complete the sentence about Dirty War with the correct year: In ______ the Argentinian military successfully took control in the Revolución Libertadora.
  90. Complete the sentence about Dirty War with the correct year: Shortly before his death in ______, Perón withdrew his support for Montoneros.
  91. Complete the sentence about Mercosur with the correct year: In ______, in the middle of the Second World War, Brazil and Argentina for the first time tried to create a Customs Union between their econ…
  92. Complete the sentence about Union of South American Nations with the correct year: The UNASUR Constitutive Treaty was signed on 23 May ______, at the Third Summit of Heads of State, held in Brasília…
  93. Complete the sentence about Union of South American Nations with the correct year: In March ______, Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro announced his country's intention to withdraw from the organizatio…
  94. Complete the sentence about Argentina–Chile relations with the correct year: In ______ Chile began the buildup of its Navy in order to carry the war to the Viceroyalty of Perú.
  95. Complete the sentence with the correct year: After a successful land and sea campaign, San Martín proclaimed the Independence of Peru in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Argentina–Chile relations with the correct year: On 12 November ______ Argentine representatives signed an agreement with the Bolivian troops.
  97. Complete the sentence about Beagle conflict with the correct year: The Beagle conflict is seen as the main reason for Chilean support of the United Kingdom during the Falklands War of ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Beagle conflict with the correct year: The conflict was resolved through papal mediation and since ______ Argentina has recognized the islands as Chilean territory.
  99. Complete the sentence about Beagle conflict with the correct year: In ______ the Chilean government sent an expedition with the appointed task of establishing a permanent settlement on the shores of t…
  100. Complete the sentence about Beagle conflict with the correct year: The founding act of the settlement of Fuerte Bulnes took place on 21 September ______.

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