Timeline of the Argentine Civil Wars

Argentine Civil Wars

From top left: Battle of Arroyo Grande, execution of Manuel Dorrego, Battle of Pavón, death of Juan Lavalle, murder of Facundo Quiroga, Battle of Caseros, Battle of Famaillá, Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
| Date| 1814-1876

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Location|

Argentina
Uruguay

Result|  Federalization of Buenos Aires
Sanction of a federal Constitution
Belligerents

Federales

* Argentine Confederation
Blancos
* Gobierno del Cerrito

Supported by:

Paraguay|

Unitarians

* State of Buenos Aires
Colorados
* Gobierno de la Defensa

Supported by:
British Empire
France

Brazil
Commanders and leaders
Juan Manuel de Rosas
Manuel Dorrego †
Justo José de Urquiza †
Francisco Ramírez †
Facundo Quiroga †
Chacho Peñaloza †
Manuel Oribe|  Bartolomé Mitre
Bernardino Rivadavia
Juan Lavalle †
José María Paz (POW)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Fructuoso Rivera

The Argentine Civil Wars were a series of internecine wars that took place in Argentina from 1814 to 1876. These conflicts were separate from the Argentine War of Independence (1810 — 1820), though they first arose during this period.

The main antagonists were, on a geographical level, Buenos Aires Province against the other provinces of modern Argentina, and on a political level, the Federal Party against the Unitarian Party. The central cause of the conflict was the excessive centralism advanced by Buenos Aires leaders and, for a long period, the monopoly on the use of the Port of Buenos Aires as the sole means for international commerce. Other participants at specific times included Uruguay, and the British and French empires, notably in the French blockade of the Río de la Plata of 1838 and in the Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata that ended in 1850.

## Timeline

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### 1829

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* Juan Manuel de Rosas and Juan Lavalle sign the Cañuelas Pact.
* Juan Manuel de Rosas is elected governor of Buenos Aires.

### 1830

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* José María Paz defeats Facundo Quiroga in the battle of Oncativo.
* Paz establish the Unitarian League.
* Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos and Santa Fe sign the Federal Pact.

### 1831

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* Mendoza and Córdoba join the Federal Pact.

### 1832

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* Santiago del Estero, La Rioja, Tucumán, Salta, San Luis, Catamarca and San Juan join the Federal Pact.
* Rosas declines a reelection as governor, the legislature elects Juan Ramón Balcarce.

### 1833

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* Rosas starts the first conquest of the desert.
* Revolution of the Restorers against Balcarce. Juan José Viamonte replaces him as governor.

### 1834

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* Viamonte resigns, and Manuel Vicente Maza replaces him.

### 1835

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* Facundo Quiroga is murdered in Córdoba.
* Juan Manuel de Rosas is appointed governor, with the sum of public power.
* Rosas established the Customs Law

### 1836

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* Fructuoso Rivera starts a rebellion against Uruguayan president Manuel Oribe. Birth of the two main Uruguayan parties: Colorados (for Rivera) and Blancos (for Oribe).

### 1837

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* Argentina joins the War of the Confederation.
* Execution of the Reinafé brothers, accused of murder of Quiroga.

### 1838

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* France imposes the French blockade of the Río de la Plata to Buenos Aires
* Rivera ousted Oribe from power, becoming the new president of Uruguay
* Death of Estanislao López, governor of Santa Fe.
* Murder of Alejandro Heredia, governor of Tucuman

### 1839

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* Rivera declares war to Argentina
* Berón de Estrada, governor of Corrientes, declares war to Rosas. He was defeated by Echagüe at Pago Largo.
* Juan Lavalle invades Entre Ríos
* Failed conspiracy of Ramón Maza against Rosas. The Mazorca kills Manuel Maza during the conflict.
* Revolution of the "Libres del Sur"

### 1840

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* Juan Lavalle is defeated by Pascual Echagüe in Entre Ríos at the Battle of Don Cristóbal (10 April 1840) and the Battle of Sauce Grande (16 July 1840).
* José María Paz is appointed head of the forces of Corrientes
* France lifts the blockade
* Manuel Oribe defeats Lavalle in Córdoba in the Battle of Quebracho Herrado
* Domingo Faustino Sarmiento moves to Chile.

### 1841

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* Ángel Pacheco defeats José María Vilela in the Battle of San Cala
* Unitarian victory in the Battle of Angaco
* Oribe defeats Lavalle in the battle of Famaillá.
* Aráoz de Lamadrid is defeated in the Battle of Rodeo del Medio
* Unitarian victory in the Battle of Caaguazú
* Lavalle dies in Jujuy, in a confusing episode
* Justo José de Urquiza is appointed governor of Entre Ríos.

## Bibliography

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* Luna, Félix (2003). La época de Rosas. Buenos Aires: La Nación. ISBN 950-49-1116-1.

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Argentine Civil Wars (1814-76)

Parties
involved
(leaders)|

| Federalists|

* José Gervasio Artigas
* Mariano Vera
* Estanislao López
* Francisco Ramírez
* Juan Bautista Bustos
* Manuel Dorrego
* Facundo Quiroga
* Alejandro Heredia
* Pascual Echagüe
* Juan Manuel de Rosas
* Justo José de Urquiza
* Ricardo López Jordán
* Juan Felipe Varela [es]
* Chacho Peñaloza

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Unitarians|

* Carlos María de Alvear
* Juan Martín de Pueyrredón
* José Rondeau
* Bernardino Rivadavia
* Juan Lavalle
* José María Paz
* Juan Esteban Pedernera
* Gregorio Aráoz de Lamadrid
* Pedro Ferré
* Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Battles|

* Cepeda (1820)
* Navarro (1828)
* San Roque (1829)
* Márquez Bridge (1829)
* La Tablada (1829)
* Oncativo (1830)
* Sauce Grande (1840)
* Famaillá (1841)
* Caaguazú (1841)
* Laguna Limpia (1846)
* Caseros (1852)
* Cepeda (1859)
* Pavón (1861)
* Pozo de Vargas (1867)
* Don Gonzalo (1873)

Treaties|

* Pilar (1820)
* Benegas (1820)
* Quadrilateral (1822)
* Cañuelas Pact (1829)
* Federal Pact (1831)
* Protocol of Palermo (1852)
* San Nicolás (1852)
* Pact of San José de Flores (1859)

See also|

* United Provinces of the Río de la Plata
* League of the Free Peoples
* Arequito Revolt
* Revolution of the Restorers
* Unitarian League
* Argentine Confederation
* Uruguayan Civil War
* Freemen of the South
* Revolution of 11 September 1852
* State of Buenos Aires
* Argentine Constitution of 1853

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