Travel Reference
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1862
President Bartolomé Mitre encourages railway building
1865
Five-year war begins against Paraguay
1872
MartínFierro,
written by José Hernández, is published
1876
Last great raid by indigenous war parties occurs
1879
Conquest of Desert under General Julio A. Roca marks
the end of indigenous resistance; southern Pampas and
Patagonia become open for settlement
Age of Liberalism
1880
Roca becomes president; City of Buenos Aires is
federalized
1890
Opponents of the Generation of Eighty Revolt;
University of La Plata is founded
1891
Banco de la Nación Argentina is established
1893
Financial crisis occurs; farmers revolt; President Miguel
Juárez Celman resigns
1895
Monument is built to La Difunta Correa
1902
Workers launch first general strike in Buenos Aires; law
is passed to expel foreign-born “troublemakers”
1905
Radicals revolt
1909
Porteño police chief is assassinated by anarchist
1910
More than 15.5 million acres (6.3 million hectares) of
wheat are cultivated
1912
Farm tenants strike in Entre Ríos; electoral laws are
reformed
1914
Railways consist of 21,400 miles (34,500 kilometers)
of track; 30 percent of country's inhabitants are immi-
grants; Buenos Aires has 1.5 million residents
1916
Hipólito Yrigoyen is elected president; Conservative
Party peacefully transfers power to Radical Party
1917
Labor strikes reach crescendo; singers Carlos Gardel
and José Razzano revive “criollo” music; Bernardo
Hussay wins Nobel Prize in medicine
1918
University strikes erupt; student admissions are expanded;
universities are founded in Santa Fe and Tucumán
1919
Right-wing vigilantes kill hundreds in Jewish neigh-
borhoods of Buenos Aires during the Semana Trágica
1922
Army suppresses workers' strikes in Patagonia; YPF is
founded as the state oil company; Unión Ferroviaria is
