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- Calles Cochabamba y Bolívar, San Telmo (primeros casos de 1871)8 days agoDescribed as After the epidemic the drinking-water and sanitation works sped up: saladeros were banned in the city in 1871 and John F. La Trobe Bateman's general project was
- Parque Ameghino (antiguo Cementerio del Sur)8 days agoDescribed as Monumento a las víctimas de la fiebre amarilla: Juan Ferrari's monument, opened in 1889, stands in the former Cementerio del Sur, which the epidemic had overwhe
- Cementerio de la Chacarita8 days agoDescribed as The cemetery has a SADAIC pantheon for actors and musicians and holds Carlos Gardel's tomb.
- Cementerio de la Chacarita8 days agoDescribed as Epidemia de 1871 y la Chacarita: the Cementerio del Sur was saturated and the Cementerio del Norte had barred epidemic victims, so a new cemetery was created at
- Calles Cochabamba y Bolívar, San Telmo (primeros casos de 1871)8 days agoDescribed as Epidemia de fiebre amarilla de 1871: about 14,000 died (some 8% of the population), roughly 75% of them foreigners, mainly Italians; on 10 April there were 563
- Calles Cochabamba y Bolívar, San Telmo (primeros casos de 1871)8 days agoDescribed as Epidemia de fiebre amarilla de 1871: it is considered to have begun on 27 January 1871 with three cases in San Telmo tenements on calle Bolívar and calle Cochab
- Corrales Viejos8 days agoDescribed 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 mi
- Puente Alsina8 days agoDescribed as Federalización de Buenos Aires, 1880: national troops under Julio Argentino Roca besieged the city and beat Governor Tejedor's provincial forces in several figh
- Campo de la batalla de Caseros8 days agoDescribed as Batalla de Caseros (3 February 1852): Urquiza's Ejército Grande defeated Rosas's Confederation army at El Palomar de Caseros (Santos Lugares, now partido de Tre
- Palermo de San Benito (residencia de Rosas)8 days agoDescribed as After Caseros the winners occupied Rosas's Palermo residence; according to the article survivors of the Regimiento de Aquino were shot there without trial.
- Palermo de San Benito (residencia de Rosas)8 days agoDescribed as The 1836 census of the city ordered by Rosas counted 62,000 inhabitants; by 1852 there were about 85,000.
- Palermo de San Benito (residencia de Rosas)8 days agoDescribed as Gobierno de Rosas: Juan Manuel de Rosas governed Buenos Aires in 1829–1832 and 1835–1852; his residence was Palermo de San Benito. On 3 February 1832 he made th
- Cabildo de Buenos Aires8 days agoDescribed as Declaración de independencia (1816): independence was declared on 9 July 1816 by the Congreso de Tucumán, not in Buenos Aires; Juan Martín de Pueyrredón was nam
- Plaza de Mayo8 days agoDescribed as Pirámide de Mayo: erected in 1811 for the first anniversary of the Revolución de Mayo, remodelled in 1856 by Prilidiano Pueyrredón and moved to the centre of th
- Plaza de Mayo8 days agoDescribed as Revolución de Mayo: on 21 May 1810 about 600 people gathered in the Plaza de la Victoria between the Recova and the Cabildo, led by Domingo French and Antonio B
- Cabildo de Buenos Aires8 days agoDescribed as Revolución de Mayo: on 22 May 1810 a cabildo abierto in this building debated the legitimacy of Viceroy Cisneros; of about 450 invitations, 251 people took part
- Cabildo de Buenos Aires8 days agoDescribed as Revolución de Mayo: the Cabildo named a Junta on 24 May and the Primera Junta was sworn in on 25 May 1810 as provisional government in the name of Fernando VII;
- Plaza de Mayo8 days agoDescribed as The Recova, a commercial gallery finished in 1803, split the square in two; it was demolished in 1884 under intendente Torcuato de Alvear, uniting the plaza, wh
- Plaza de Mayo8 days agoDescribed as Consecuencias de las invasiones inglesas: urban militias raised the power of criollo military leaders; the article calls the invasions 'uno de los catalizadores
- Plaza de Mayo8 days agoDescribed as Segunda invasión inglesa y Defensa (1807): on 5 July 1807 Whitelocke sent his troops into the city in 12 columns ordered not to fire until the Plaza de la Victo
- Convento de Santo Domingo8 days agoDescribed as Invasiones inglesas: captured British flags were displayed as war trophies in the Santo Domingo convent in 1806; in 1807 Craufurd entrenched here and fought on
- Cabildo de Buenos Aires8 days agoDescribed as The Cabildo, founded as an institution by Garay in 1580, had its new building started on 23 July 1725; it also housed the Real Audiencia (1661–1812) and the cit
- Manzana de las Luces8 days agoDescribed as Manzana de las Luces: the Jesuits arrived in 1608 and began the San Ignacio church in 1686; they were expelled in 1767. Under the viceroyalty the block housed t
- Manzana de las Luces8 days agoDescribed as Fundación de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (1821): the university was founded on 12 August 1821 in the San Ignacio church; the newspaper El Argos named the blo
- Casa Rosada (Fuerte de Buenos Aires)8 days agoDescribed as The Casa Rosada occupies the site of the old Fuerte de Buenos Aires and has been the seat of the national Executive since 1862.
- Casa Rosada (Fuerte de Buenos Aires)8 days agoDescribed as The old fort was partly demolished in the 1850s for the Aduana Nueva; between 1884 and 1898 the government and post-office buildings were united and the complex
- Casa Rosada (Fuerte de Buenos Aires)8 days agoDescribed as Capital del Virreinato del Río de la Plata (1776): when the viceroyalty was created Buenos Aires became its capital. The site was the Real Fortaleza de San Juan
- Plaza de Mayo8 days agoDescribed as Buenos Aires colonial: the city grew from about 500 people around 1602 to about 3,000 by the mid-17th century and about 40,000 by 1810; for centuries it lived o
- Plaza de Mayo8 days agoDescribed as Garay's expedition left Asunción on 9 March 1580 and reached the mouth of the Riachuelo on 29 May; the settlement was built somewhat north of Mendoza's of 1536.
- Plaza de Mayo8 days agoDescribed as Segunda fundación de Buenos Aires (1580): Juan de Garay founded the Ciudad de la Trinidad and port of Santa María de los Buenos Ayres on 11 June 1580, planted t