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Argentina, [C] officially the Argentine Republic, [A] [D] is a country in the southern half of South America.Argentina covers an area of 2,780,400 km 2 (1,073,500 sq mi), [B] making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world.
The history of Argentina can be divided into four main parts: the pre-Columbian time or early history (up to the sixteenth century), the colonial period (1536–1809), the period of nation-building (1810–1880), and the history of modern Argentina (from around 1880).
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a timeline of Argentine history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Argentina and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Argentina. See also the ...
This started a period known as the Anarchy of the Year XX, when Argentina lacked any type of head of state. There was a new attempt to organize a central government in 1826. A new congress wrote a new constitution and elected Bernardino Rivadavia as President in the process. [2] Rivadavia was the first President of Argentina.
In Italian and Venetian, Argentina (masculine argentino) means "(made) of silver, silver coloured", derived from the Latin "argentum" for silver. The earliest description of the region by the word Argentina has been found on a Venetian map in 1536. [4] The Portuguese cartographer Lopo Homem made reference to the place as "Terra Argentea" in a ...
The 88-year-old … Pope Francis had quite a busy weekend. ... In “Hope,” he recounts how his paternal grandparents and father intended to sail from Italy to Argentina in 1927 on a ship called ...
A 60-year-old woman saw her dreams of becoming the oldest Miss Universe contestant in history melt away in a haze of sequins and selfies Saturday at Argentina’s annual beauty pageant. Alejandra ...
The history of Argentina from 1946 to 1955, ... 1950, Perón created the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA), which today turns 68 years old. Its director was ...