first signs of human presence
In the Pampas area the indigenious tribes had a nomadic life till the arrival of the Spaniards
In the Northwest of the country agriculture and farming has been practiced since the 8th century and there also was a advanced architecture
13-14th century:
Inca Empire conquered Northwesten parts of present-day Argentina
16th century:
colonization by Spaniards from Peru and the Atlantic ocean
1580:
Buenos Aires is founded on the Rio de la Plata
17-18th century:
Argentina is part of the kingdom of Peru
1776:
secession of the kingdom of the Rio de la Plata with the capitol Buenos Aires -> besides present-day Argentina it also included Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay
1810:
May Revolution beginning on May 25
1816:
war for freedom against the Spaniards in San Miguel de Tucumán
-> Declaration of Independence on July 9
1816 - 1880:
characterized by dictatorship and civil wars
-> 1864-1870: War of the Triple Alliance against expansion of Paraguay
1880-1929:
-> waves of immigration from Italy and Spain
-> general Julio Argentino Roca becomes president
-> 1916: military government wins control
-> economic prosperity till 1929
1929:
prosperity ends with the economic Crash of 1929
from 1946:
-> Juan Domingo Perón is elected for president
-> increasing industrialisation
-> Perón´s wife Eva (Evita) supported labor and women´s groups; through her influence women obtained the right to vote in 1947; she died from cancer in 1952
1952-1973:
-> Perón is forced into exile
-> struggle between Peronist and anti-Peronist forces
-> series of military-appointed presidents
-> 1973: Perón returnes form exile and again becomes president with his third wife Isabel Perón as vice-president
from 1974:
1974: death of Juan Perón
-> his wife Isabel becomes president and is removed form office by a military coup d`état in 1976
-> military dictatorship under Jorge Rafael Videla a.o.
-> military regime eliminates "unpleasent" people; 1984 the Commission on the Dissappeared documented the dissappearence and probably death at the hands of the military regime of about 11000 people
1982:
war against Great Britain under Leopoldo Galtieri to seize the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
-> capitulation of Argentina on June 14, 1982
from 1983:
return to democracy under Raúl Alfonsin, who left office in 1989 due to a serious economic crisis
-> temporary economic stabilization under president Menem
1998 - 2002:
Argentina has to face another big economic crisis
-> many Argentinians sink into unemployment and poverty
from 2003:
-> recovery of the economic situation
-> Nestór Kirchner is elected for president
