List of wars involving Argentina

• The territories are incorporated into the Collasuyo.
• The towns are submitted to the Empire's state economic and labor administration system.
• Beginning of the acculturation of the natives.
• Continuation of hostilities against the Guarani tribes.
• Fails expansion attempt towards the northern Chaco.

 

• Port of Santa Maria del Buen Aire

• The city is burned down by the natives in 1536, it was later reconstructed by the conquerors
• The Spanish destroy the city and migrate to Asunción in 1541

 

• Tucuman Governorate

• Various Spanish cities destroyed
• Weakening of the Diaguita leadership and later acceptance of the encomienda by the natives

 

• Río de la Plata and Paraguay Governorate
  • Jesuitic Guaraní Tribes

• Rise of the tensions with the Portuguese conquerors
• Death of Juan de Garay

 

• Río de la Plata and Paraguay Governorate

• Revolution crushed

 

• Tucuman Governorate

• Rebellion against the encomienda crushed
• Omaguacas' land annexed to the Spanish territory

 

• Río de la Plata and Paraguay Governorate

• The island Martín García remains in Spanish control
• Attacks on Buenos Aires repelled
• Pirate incursions dramatically reduced
• Foundation of Montevideo

 

• Tucuman Governorate

• The Spanish Empire defeat and annex the Diaguitas, but are unable to annex the rest of the confederation.
• The natives get rid of the encomienda
• The Quilmes become the leaders of the confederation

(1641)

 

• Río de la Plata Governorate
  • Jesuitic Guaraní Tribes

 

• Colonial Brazil
  • Bandeirantes

• Portuguese raids stop
• Guarani people are excluded from forced labour
• The jesuits gain more autonomy regarding the administration of their missions

 

• Tucuman Governorate

• End of the Diaguita rebellions
• Full annexation of the Diaguita Confederation by Spain

 

• Río de la Plata Governorate
• Tucuman Governorate
• Paraguay Governorate

 

• Colonial Brazil

• Spanish occupy Sacramento
• Sacramento is given back to Portugal in 1683

 

• Río de la Plata Governorate

Guaraní Tribes

• 300 Charrúas were killed during the negotiations
• Decisive weakening of the Charrúa forces

 

• Río de la Plata Governorate

 

• Colonial Brazil

• Spanish occupy Sacramento
• Sacramento is given back to Portugal in 1715

 

• Río de la Plata Governorate

• Rebellion crushed
• Paraguayan people lose their right to vote

 

• Río de la Plata Governorate

 

• Colonial Brazil

• Failure at occupying Sacramento Colony

 

• Río de la Plata Governorate

 Portuguese Empire

• Colonial Brazil
  • Bandeirantes

Jesuits

• End of Jesuitic influence on the Platine region
• Portuguese territorial gain

 

• Río de la Plata Governorate

 

• Colonial Brazil

 Great Britain

•  East India Company

• Sacramento Colony temporarily occupied by Spain
• Rio Grande temporarily occupied by Spain
• The occupied territories are given back to Portugal

 

• Río de la Plata Governorate

• The Falklands are annexed to Spain as Malvinas
• Withdrawal of both forces from the islands

 

• Río de la Plata Governorate

 

• Colonial Brazil

• Sacramento Colony occupied and annexed to Spain
• Santa Catarina temporarily occupied by Spain
• Spain annexation of southern Brazilian territory
• Spanish annexation of Equatorial Guinea

(1801)

• Buenos Aires Intendency

 

• Colonial Brazil

• Eastern Missions annexed to Brazil

• Buenos Aires Intendency
• Montevideo Government

 

•  Cape Colony

• Both invasions repelled

• Action of 2 June 1807 (2-3 June 1807) - Spanish victory
• Battle of Miserere (2 July 1807) - British victory

Argentine participation in:

• Argentine War of Independence
• Bolivian War of Independence
• Independence of Paraguay^{[Note 1]}
• Chilean War of Independence
• Mexican War of Independence^{[Note 2]}
• Peruvian War of Independence
• Ecuadorian War of Independence

• United Provinces of the Río de la Plata
• Gran Colombia
• Chile
• Mexico
• Peru
• Bolivia
• Paraguay

Amerindian allies of the Patriots

Spanish Monarchy

•  Spain
• Spanish America

Amerindian allies of the Royalists

• Formation of the new Hispanic American states
• Subsequently, Spain recognizes each of the new Hispanic American states through the signing of international treaties

• Battle of Tucumán (24-25 September 1812) - Provinces of Rio de la Plata victory
• Battle of San Lorenzo (3 February 1813) (Second Banda Oriental campaign) - Provinces of Rio de la Plata victory
• Battle of Salta (20 February 1813) - Provinces of Rio de la Plata victory
• Battle of Martín García (10-15 March 1814) (Second Banda Oriental campaign) - Provinces of Rio de la Plata victory
• Battle of Yavi (15 November 1816) - Spanish victory

 Portuguese Empire

• Colonial Brazil

 Spain

• Withdrawal of Portuguese troops from the Banda Oriental

 

• Buenos Aires
• Tucuman
• Salta
• Cuyo
• La Rioja
• Entre Ríos Republic

• Banda Oriental
• Entre Ríos
• Corrientes
• Santa Fe
• Misiones Occidentales

Córdoba
Charrúa Tribes
Guaycuru Tribes
Santiago del Estero

• End of the Federal League and the directory
• Anarchy of the 20's
• La Rioja separates from Cordoba
• Creation of the Entre Rios Republic and Tucuman Republic
• Separation of Cuyo into Mendoza, San Luis and San Juan
• Reintegration of Santiago del Estero into Tucuman
• The League of the Free Peoples does not represent the Argentine government of that era, so their conflicts with Portugal will not be counted on this page

• Battle of Cepeda (1 February 1820) - Federalist victory

• Battle of Apóstoles (2 July 1817) - Misiones victory
• Battle of San Carlos (1817) - Luso-Brazilian victory

• Bouchard continues his expedition on the Pacific Ocean
• Incident on Jolo

• Reconciliation after the arrival of the Sulu leader
• Bouchard continues his expedition to reach the Philippines

• Territorial expansion to the west

• The Entre Ríos Republic separates into the provinces of Entre Ríos and Corrientes

• Andes Auxiliary Division

• More autonomy of La Rioja
• Francisco Aldao had to withdraw from the province of La Rioja
• Nicolás Dávila takes over as governor of the province
• Facundo Quiroga's first important victory

• Santiago del Estero separates from Tucuman as a new province
• Catamarca's secession from Tucuman
• End of the Tucuman Republic (which despite the name wasn't a country)

• Preliminary Peace Convention

• Battle of Punta Colares (9 February 1826) - Inconclusive
• Battle of Quilmes (29-30 July 1826) - Brazilian victory
• Battle of Carmen de Patagones (7 March 1827) - United Provinces victory
• Battle of Monte Santiago (7-8 April 1827) - Brazillan victory

Boroan Confederation

• End of the Montoneras of Pincheira
• Argentine campaign on the Desert (1833–1834)

• Buenos Aires
• Tucumán
• Salta
• Catamarca
• Venezuelan Mercenaries^{[Note 5]}

• La Rioja
• Córdoba
• Santiago del Estero

• Bernandino Rivadavia resigns
• Manuel Dorrego becomes the new president

• Mendoza
• San Luis
• San Juan
• Salta
• Tucumán
• Santiago del Estero
• Córdoba
• Catamarca
• La Rioja

• Buenos Aires
• Entre Ríos
• Corrientes
• Santa Fe
• Montoneras of Quiroga

• Fall of Manuel Dorrego
• Rise and fall of Juan Lavalle
• Rise of Juan Manuel de Rosas
• End of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata
• Start of the Argentine Confederation

• Battle of San Roque (22 April 1829 - Decembrist revolution) - Unitarian victory
• Battle of Márquez Bridge (26 April 1829 - Decembrist revolution) - Federal victory
• Battle of Famaillá (19 September 1841) - Federal victory
• Battle of Caaguazú (28 November 1841) - Unitarian victory

• Causus belli for the War between Argentina and Peru–Bolivian Confederation
• Unitarian uprising crushed
• The Colorados take over Uruguay
• Argentine invasion of Uruguay
• Jujuy separates from Salta as a new province
• Death of Facundo Quiroga
• Start of the second term of Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1835

• Argentina and the United States break diplomatic relations
• Weakening of the Argentine settlement on the islands
• British occupation in 1833.

• Argentine territorial expansion
• Rise of the popularity of Juan Manuel de Rosas

• End of Boroan influence on the Pampas
• Calfucurá becomes the leader of the entirety of Puelmapu, forming the Confederation of Salinas Grandes

 

• North Peru
• South Peru
• Bolivia

• Chile, Argentina and the Peruvian dissidents defeat the Peru-Bolivian Confederation
• Argentine territorial integrity secured

• Argentine territorial integrity secured
• Abandonment of the Bolivian pretentions of annexing the Argentine northern provinces

• France leaves the island Martín García

(Second phase of Guerra Grande)
(1839–1843)

• The Blancos party creates the Government of Cerrito, which controlled most of Uruguay.
• The Colorados remain in control of Montevideo, creating the Government of La Defensa.
• Great Siege of Montevideo.

Argentine Confederation

• Colorado Party (Uruguay) or Colorados
• Unitarian Party
• July Monarchy
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

• Battle of Arroyo Grande (6 December 1842) - Blanco victory
• Battle of Vuelta de Obligado (20 November 1845 - Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata) - Pyrrhic strategic Anglo-French victory, diplomatic Argentinian victory

• Buenos Aires
• Entre Ríos
• Santa Fe
• Mendoza
• San Luis
• San Juan
• Santiago del Estero
• Córdoba

Blancos

• Jujuy
• Salta
• Tucumán
• Catamarca
• La Rioja
• Corrientes

Support:
 France

• Death of Juan Lavalle

• Giuseppe Garibaldi escapes to Montevideo

• Italian Legion (until 1846)
• French Legions (until 1850)
• Exiled Argentines

• Start of the Platine War

• Revolution crushed
• Corrientes reintegrated into Argentina
• Growth of Paraguayan influence on the disputed province of Misiones

• France and Britain recognize the sovereignty of Argentina on River Plate and its tributaries
• France pulls its forces out of Montevideo

• Battle of Vuelta de Obligado
• Battle of San Lorenzo (1846)
• Battle of Quebracho

• Corrientes

Support:

• Entre Ríos

 

Support:

•  Brazil

• Paraguayan army expulsed from most of Misiones except for Candelaria and Trinchera San Jose.

(Sixth Argentine Civil War)

(1851–1852)

Entre Ríos
Corrientes
Santa Fe

Unitarians

 Brazil

Government of La Defensa

• Victory of the coalition army of General Justo José de Urquiza in Argentina
• Colorado victory in Uruguay
• Argentine clout over the Platine region ends^[2]
• Brazilian hegemony in the Platine region starts^[3][4]
• War between the State of Buenos Aires and the Confederation

• Battle of the Tonelero Pass (17 December 1851) - Brazilian victory
• Battle of Caseros (3 February 1852) - Allied victory

• Buenos Aires defeats the Argentine Confederation, leading to unification and the creation of the Argentine Republic
  • Buenos Aires does this with the condition of being able to secede from Argentina again if needed

• Battle of Cepeda (23 October 1859) - Argentine Confederation victory
• Battle of Pavón (17 September 1861) - State of Buenos Aires victory

• Calfulcurá is defeated and dies one year after that

• The Colorados take over the Uruguayan government
• Start of the Paraguayan War

 

 

• Paraguayan Legion

 Uruguay

• Allied occupation of Paraguay
• Argentina definitively asserts its sovereignty on the Misiones Province and other territories south of the Pilcomayo River
• Brazil definitively asserts its sovereignty on Mato Grosso do Sul

• Battle of Riachuelo (11 June 1865) - Brazilian victory

• Mendoza
• San Luis
• San Juan
• La Rioja
• Chilean volunteers

• Felipe Varela escapes from the country

• Entre Ríos Province

• Death of Justo José de Urquiza
• Defeat of Ricardo López Jordán
• End of the era of caudillos

• Wichí
• Toba
• Pilagá
• Mocoví

• Annexation of a big part of the Gran Chaco

• Autonomist party's rule of the country through 40 years

• Reestablishment of the government of Jujuy
• Rebel survivors flee to Bolivia

• The genoese revolutionaries are defeated and La Boca is reintegrated into Argentina
• The republic would later reappear as a recreative micronation with no independentist intentions

• Annexation of the eastern Patagonia
• Chile would stop claiming the eastern part of Patagonia
• Emergence of the military and political influence of Argentina in South America

• Federalization of Buenos Aires
• End of the Argentine Civil Wars
• Buenos Aires loses its right to secede

• Battle of Los Corrales (21 June 1880) - Buenos Aires victory

• 3,900 Selk'nams killed
  • Only around 900 of the deaths were directly inflicted due to most victims dying due to diseases unknown to them
• Death of the last native speaker of the Selk'nam language in the 1980s^[5]
• Extinction of the Yagán domestic fox used by the Selk'nam

• Annexation of most of the Puna de Atacama in 1888

• President Miguel Juárez Celman resigns, Vice President Carlos Pellegrini assumes the presidency
• Revolution crushed by the government

• Revolution crushed by the government

Support:

•  Argentina

• Russia withdraws from Manchuria
• Improvement of relations between Argentina and Japan

 

•  Argentina
•  United States

 

 

 

•  Spain
•  Mexico
•  Belgium
•  Netherlands
•  Denmark

• Venezuelan debt dispute resolved
• European fleet withdraws
• Argentina's Drago Doctrine becomes famous internationally

• Sáenz Peña law sanctioned in 1912, which allowed secret, universal and mandatory suffrage
• Revolution crushed by the government

• Incarceration of Chileans settlers
• The settlers were released a month later they returned to Chile

 

• Argentine Patriotic League

• Anarchists and Communists

• Rebellion crushed
• Multiple human rights violations towards immigrants and Jews
• First pogrom on the history of the Americas
• Roots of fascism in Argentina

 

• Argentine Patriotic League

• Anarchists and Communists

Support:

• Carabineros de Chile

• Rebellion crushed
• Facón Grande executed

• Argentine military seizes power
• Overthrow of Hipólito Yrigoyen
• Start of the Infamous Decade

 

•  Argentina
•  Italy
•  United States

 

•  Czechoslovakia
•  United Kingdom

• Paraguay gets most of the disputed zone with Bolivia

• Revolution crushed by the government

• combat of the esma

• Argentine military seizes power
• Overthrow of Ramón Castillo
• End of the Infamous Decade
• Rise of Juan Domingo Perón's popularity
• Argentina remains neutral through most of World War II
• Tension between the Allies and Argentina

• Argentina during World War II

• Collapse of the German Reich
• Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
• Creation of the United Nations
• Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
• Beginning of the Cold War

• U-977 and U-530 surrender to the Argentine Navy.
• Several nazis secretly protected by Argentina by the use of ratlines.
• Thousands of Argentine volunteers served with all three British armed services, particularly the Royal Air Force, as well as the Royal Canadian Air Force.^[6][7]

 

•  Argentina
•  United States

• Guerrillas defeated
• Paraguay would later save Juan Domingo Perón from the Liberating Revolution.

• Radicals
• Catholic Conservatives

• Argentine military seizes power
• Overthrow of Juan Domingo Perón
• Political persecution of Peronism

• Rebel guerrillas dissolved some years after the conflict
• Former members would join later join Montoneros or FAR

• Colorados revolt suppressed
• Argentina joins the blockade against Cuba
• End of military rule, presidential elections of 1963

 

 

•  Argentina
•  Venezuela
•  Colombia
•  Dominican Republic
•  Trinidad and Tobago

• Expulsion of Cuba from the OAS
• Naval blockade of Cuba towards the USSR

Support:

•  Cuba

• Disarticulation of the guerrilla
• The attempt of revolution, along with the later fall of Tacuara and the bad decisions taken by the government of Ongania would later provoke the Cycle of Azos and creation of far-leftist guerrillas

(1963-1966)

 

• Argentine Federal Police

Support:

• Nazi refugees
• Argentine armed Forces
• Arab League

• The Tacuara Nationalist Movement is dissolved
• Founder of the guerrillas, José Joe Baxter, becomes communist and creates the ERP
• Without Tacuara, far-left guerrillas begin to appear.
  • Former members would later become part of the Triple A to fight communism

• Argentina gets the disputed zone

(1969-1972)

MPTW

CGT

PRT

 Córdoba

• Military junta collapses
• Ongania, Levingston and Lanusse resign
• Juan Domingo Perón comes back from exile

• See also: Operativo Independencia

• Leftist guerrillas defeated mostly eradicated by 1977
• 9,500+ guerrillas (4,500+ Montoneros and 5,000 ERP), hundreds of soldiers/police, and 3,252 civilians killed in political violence from 1969 to 1980; 30,000 people disappeared by the government.^[8][9]

 

•  Argentina (1976–1983)
•  United States (1963–1996)

• Signing of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship in 1984
• Bioceanity of Argentina and Chile. Not mutually recognized.
• Chile's support to the United Kingdom during the Falklands War

• Chapultepec Peace Accords of 1992
• Restructuring of Salvadoran Armed Forces
• National and Treasury Police are dissolved (new civilian-overseen police created)
• FMLN becomes a political party, its combatants are exonerated

• Status quo ante bellum in South Georgia and the Falklands
• Argentine occupation of Southern Thule ended
• Collapse of the military junta

• Uprisings stopped

• Argentine army and police victory

• Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait

 

 

•  Argentina
•  United States
•  Canada
•  Denmark
•  France
•  Jordan
•    Nepal
•  Spain
•  UK

• Croatian forces regain control over most of RSK-held Croatian territory
• Croatian forces advance into Bosnia and Herzegovina which helps lead to the eventual end of the Bosnian War
• Argentine arms trafficking scandal

• Reinstatement of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as President of Haiti