Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
1565
Tucumán is founded
1573
Spaniards drive out Comechingón people and found
Córdoba; Santa Fe is founded by Spaniards from
Paraguay
1580
Second founding of Buenos Aires is carried out by
Spanish-speaking mestizos from Paraguay
1583
Salta and Jujuy are founded
1588
City of Corrientes is founded; first slaves are imported
to Buenos Aires
1591
La Rioja is founded
1596
City of San Luis is founded
1599
Uprising of Araucanos (Mapuche) in Chile takes place
1604
Jesuits arrive in Paraguay
1609
Jesuits establish a college and
estancias
in Córdoba
1620
Export of
yerbamate
from Paraguay begins
1622
Customs are set up in Córdoba to discourage
contraband
1624
The Hapsburg king denounces corruption and contra-
band in the Río de la Plata
1626
Jesuits found missions along the Uruguay River
1629
Brazilian slave hunters attack Jesuit missions
1641
Armed Guaraní from Jesuit missions defeat Brazilian
slaving expedition
1657
Calchaquí rebellion is led by Pedro Bohórquez in Tucumán
1674
Paulista slaving expedition destroys Villa Rica in
Paraguay; 4,607 persons live in Buenos Aires
1680
Portuguese found port of Colônia do Sacramento in
Uruguay
1704
Spanish-Guaraní forces from Paraguay seize Colônia
from the Portuguese
1713
First Bourbon monarch ascends throne of Spain and
British company obtains monopoly to import slaves to
Spanish America as a result of the War of the Spanish
Succession (1701-14)
1714
Colônia reverts to Portuguese; 30 Jesuits missions have
120,000 inhabitants
1721
Rebellion of
comuneros
in Paraguay takes place and
governor of Asunción is executed; Montevideo (mod-
ern-day Uruguay) is founded
1735
Comunero
rebellion in Paraguay is suppressed
