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Eras · 1880–1920

Guardia Vieja

Trios of flute, guitar and violin; Villoldo and Arolas; sheet music and the first recordings.

Play 1912, the busiest year

Key orchestras

  1. Francisco Canaro18
  2. Roberto Firpo1
  3. Juan Maglio13

Recordings per orchestra: TangoCloud catalogue

What happened

  1. 1880

    Juan Félix Maglio: Born in Buenos Aires. source

  2. 1881

    Gabino Coria Peñaloza: Born in La Paz, Mendoza (Wikipedia gives 1881; Todo Tango 1895). source

  3. 1881

    Víctor Ocampo: Born in Montevideo. source

  4. 1881

    Ramón Vieytes: Born in Buenos Aires. source

  5. 1881

    Juan Maglio: Born in Buenos Aires; the family lives in Palermo and later moves to Boedo. source

  6. 1881

    Carlos Mauricio Pacheco: Born in Montevideo. source

  7. 1882

    Casimiro Aín: Born in Buenos Aires on 4 March to a Basque father and a Genoese mother. source

  8. 1882

    Bernardino Terés: Born in Funes. source

  9. 1882

    Arturo Bernstein: Born in Petrópolis. source

  10. 1882

    Jesus Ventura: Born. source

  11. 1883

    Alberto Weisbach: Born in Fray Bentos. source

  12. 1883

    Francisco Bastardi: Born in Buenos Aires. source

  13. 1883

    Luis Teisseire: Born in Buenos Aires. source

  14. 1883

    José Ceglie: Born. source

  15. 1883

    Elías Isaac Alippi: Born in Buenos Aires. source

  16. 1884

    Roberto Firpo: Born in Las Flores, Buenos Aires Province. source

  17. 1884

    Agustín Bardi: Born in Las Flores. source

  18. 1884

    A. Bardi: Born in Las Flores, Buenos Aires province. source

  19. 1884

    Miguel F. Osés: Born in Argentina. source

  20. 1884

    Domingo Santa Cruz: Born in the Once district of Buenos Aires. source

  21. 1885

    José González Castillo: Born in Rosario. source

  22. 1885

    El Cachafaz: Born on 14 February in a conventillo at Boedo and Independencia. source

  23. 1885

    Juan de Dios Filiberto: Born in a modest house on Necochea street in La Boca. source

  24. 1885

    Ernesto Ponzio: Born in Buenos Aires, in the Tierra del Fuego district near Recoleta. source

  25. 1885

    Samuel Castriota: Born in Buenos Aires; grows up in San Miguel. source

  26. 1885

    Verminio Servetto: Born. source

  27. 1886

    Vicente Greco: Born in Buenos Aires. source

  28. 1886

    Esposito Genaro: Born in San Telmo, Buenos Aires. source

  29. 1886

    Tano Genaro: Born in Buenos Aires. source

  30. 1886

    Antonio Scatasso: Born in Naples; comes to Argentina at about four. source

  31. 1886

    Manuel Jovés: Born in Manresa, Catalonia. source

  32. 1886

    Alberto Vacarezza: Born in Almagro. source

  33. 1886

    Juan Velich: Born in Villa Constitución, Santa Fe. source

  34. 1886

    Salvador Merico: Born in Andria, Italy. source

  35. 1887

    José Razzano: Born in Montevideo; two years later his mother moves to Balvanera, Buenos Aires. source

  36. 1887

    Enrique Maroni: Born in Bragado. source

  37. 1887

    Prudencio Aragón: Born in Belgrano, Buenos Aires (the Uruguayan register gives 1886). source

  38. 1887

    Claudio Frollo: Born in Buenos Aires. source

  39. 1887

    Roberto Lino Cayol: Born in Buenos Aires. source

  40. 1887

    Fernán Silva Valdés: Born in Montevideo. source

  41. 1887

    Mario Pardo: Born in Uruguay. source

  42. 1887

    Carlos GARDEL: Born in Toulouse. source

  43. 1887

    Juan Carlos Bazán: Born in Buenos Aires. source

  44. 1887

    Vicente Martínez Cuitiño: Born in Departamento de Colonia. source

  45. 1888

    Manuel Aróztegui: Born in Montevideo. source

  46. 1888

    Luis Bernstein: Born in San Pedro. source

  47. 1888

    Vicente Greco: Born in the Concepción district of Buenos Aires (Wikipedia gives 1886). source

  48. 1888

    José De Grandis: Born in Boedo. source

  49. 1888

    Eduardo López: Born in Buga. source

  50. 1888

    José Sentis: Born in Tarragona. source

  51. 1888

    Samuel Linnig: Born in Montevideo. source

  52. 1888

    Eduardo Escaris Méndez: Born in Buenos Aires. source

  53. 1888

    Juan Sarcione: Born in Buenos Aires. source

  54. 1888

    Martín Cabral: Born in Rosario. source

  55. 1888

    Pascual Contursi: Born in Chivilcoy; the family later settles in San Cristóbal, Buenos Aires. source

  56. 1888

    Francisco Canaro: Born in San José de Mayo, Uruguay. source

  57. 1888

    Francisco Canaro: Born in Departamento de San José. source

  58. 1889

    Augusto Berto: Born in Bahía Blanca; the family moves to Villa Crespo when he is five. source

  59. 1889

    Rafael Tuegols: Born in Buenos Aires. source

  60. 1889

    José Padilla: Born in Almería. source

Data: recordings, facts and sources

Dated claims

19 published claims dated inside this era, each with its source

  1. 1880-01-01El porteñito · occurred at: Gabriel Diez

    source

  2. 1880-01-01Dame la lata · occurred at: mediados de 1880

    source

  3. 1880-01-01Puente Alsina · described as: Federalización de Buenos Aires, 1880: national troops under Julio Argentino Roca besieged the city and beat Governor Tejedor's provincial forces in several fights, among them Olivera, Puente Alsina, Barracas and Los Corrales.

    source

  4. 1880-01-01Corrales Viejos · described as: Federalización de Buenos Aires: Los Corrales was one of the fights of 1880 between Roca's national army and Tejedor's provincial militia; Mitre mediated, the militia was disarmed and Tejedor resigned.

    source

  5. 1880-01-01La Boca · described as: Conventillos: shared tenement houses where families or single men rented rooms, often the first home of newly arrived immigrants. In 1880 Buenos Aires had 1,770 of them, housing 51,915 people, about a fifth of the city; La Boca's were built on wooden stilts.

    source

  6. 1880-01-01La Boca · described as: Conventillos y tango: the conventillo courtyards are named as one of the places where early tango began to be danced, together with the street, in a port city of mostly male immigrants.

    source

  7. 1880-01-01Puente Alsina (Riachuelo), Buenos Aires · described as: Revolution of 1880: Buenos Aires fights the national army over the capital question.

    source

  8. 1880-01-01Avenida Corrientes · described as: Tango: the theatres and bars of the avenue (Politeama, Apolo, Odeón, the old Teatro Ópera) were settings for the rise of tango from the late nineteenth century; Gardel lived on the avenue between 1904 and 1918.

    source

  9. 1880-09-01Buenos Aires · described as: Federalization of Buenos Aires: Congress makes the city the national capital.

    source

  10. 1880-10-01Buenos Aires · described as: Roca becomes president: Roca takes office.

    source

  11. 1880-11-18Juan Maglio · born on: 1880-11-18

    source

  12. 1882-01-01Jesus Ventura · born on: 1882

    source

  13. 1882-03-04Casimiro Agustín Aín · born on: 1882-03-04

    source

  14. 1882-03-04Casimiro Aín · born on: 1882-03-04

    source

  15. 1882-03-06Boedo · described as: Growth: a semirural area of estates and brickworks entered the city cadastre on 6 March 1882; subdivided into cheap lots for immigrants, it drew its first residents with the electric tram network in the early 1900s, followed by cafés, tango and poets.

    source

  16. 1883-01-01Dame la lata · occurred at: Juan Perez

    source

  17. 1883-01-01Dame la lata · occurred at: 1883

    source

  18. 1883-01-01Elías Isaac Alippi · born on: 1883

    source

  19. 1883-01-01Carlos Gardel · born on: 1883

    source

1880s

1890s

1900s

1910s

Counts: TangoCloud catalogue

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