1879 in Argentina

Events in the year 1879 in Argentina.

Incumbents

• President: Nicolás Avellaneda
• Vice President: Mariano Acosta

Events

• April – Conquest of the Desert: Julio Argentino Roca begins his second sweep of the land up to the Río Negro, aiming to "extinguish, subdue or expel" the Indians who inhabit the region.^[1]
• October – Roca gives up his military career to enter politics.
• 10 November - Tandanor, a worker-owned shipyard, is founded in Buenos Aires.^[2]
• date unknown
  • Argentina's first anarchist newspaper, El Descamisado, is launched.^[3]
• Aberdeen Angus cattle are first introduced to Argentina by Don Carlos Guerrero.

Arts and culture

• date unknown
  • José Hernández publishes La Vuelta de Martín Fierro, the second and final part of his epic poem.^[4]
  • Eduardo Gutiérrez writes his major novel, Juan Moreira.^[5]

Births

• 27 May – Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós, post-Impressionist painter (died 1968)
• 22 November – Julio Salvador Sagreras, guitarist and composer (died 1942)^[6]
• 6 December – Rogelio Yrurtia, Realist sculptor (died 1950)^[7]

Deaths

• date unknown – Juan Madariaga, general (born 1809)

References

1. The Argentine Military and the Boundary Dispute With Chile, 1870–1902, George V. Rauch, p. 47, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999
2. Argentina: Tandanor, the old dog teaching itself new tricks. The America's Intelligence Wire. 2 Nov. 2005.
3. According to http://raforum.info/spip.php?article261&lang=fr (site of an extensive list of anarchist periodicals in Argentina)
4. Jorge Luis Borges, El "Martín Fierro" (ISBN 84-206-1933-7).
5. McGill, Carlos Rodríguez (2002), "El Juan Moreira De Eduardo Gutiérrez: entre el discurso hegemónico y lo performativo, y la construcción del imaginario popular Argentino", MACLAS Latin American Essays.
6. Biography (Spanish). Accessed 8 December 2013
7. The Yrurtia Museum (Spanish)