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The electoral college met on 12 April 1874, and awarded Mitre only three provinces, including Buenos Aires. As he had repeatedly up to 1861, Mitre took up arms again. Hoping to prevent Avellaneda's 12 October inaugural, he mutineered a gunboat ; he was defeated, however, and only President Avellaneda's commutation spared his life.
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The White League had formed in 1874 as an insurgent, white Democratic paramilitary group in Grant Parish and nearby parishes [2] on the Red River of the South in Louisiana.The League was founded by members of the white militia who had committed the Colfax Massacre in Louisiana in 1873, killing numerous black people in order to turn out Republicans from parish offices as part of the disputed ...
The 1866 treaty, the first boundary treaty between Bolivia and Chile, stipulated in seven articles: The international boundary will, in future, be drawn at the 24th parallel, and will be marked out on the ground "by means of visible and permanent signals — from the Pacific to the eastern boundary of Chile" by experts nominated by both countries.
Engraving of the proclamation of the republic by Josep Lluís Pellicer, 1873.. The Spanish Republic (Spanish: República española), historiographically referred to as the First Spanish Republic (Spanish: Primera República española), was the political regime that existed in Spain from 11 February 1873 to 29 December 1874.
The country also suffered from significant social inequality, with a small but wealthy elite controlling most of Spain's resources. Social unrest: The period witnessed social upheaval and the growth of socialist and anarchist movements. These groups sought to address the social and economic inequalities within Spanish society and often clashed ...
The de la Cámara family gained prominence during the Colonial Period, becoming part of the Mexican nobility and major landowners in the Yucatán Peninsula. [6] During the 19th-century henequen fiber boom, they were part of an oligarchy controlling henequen production, trade, and regional politics, amassing substantial wealth and becoming among ...
Admiral Manuel de la Cámara y Livermoore (or Libermoore) (7 May 1836 – 4 January 1920) was a Spanish naval officer.He saw service in many of Spain′s wars of the second half of the nineteenth century and is most notable for commanding a large naval squadron that made an abortive attempt to relieve Spanish forces in the Philippine Islands during the Spanish–American War.