1916 - Hipolito Yrigoyen of the Radical party is elected president. He introduces a minimum wage to counter the effects of inflation. Yrigoyen is elected again in 1928.
Hipolito Yrigoyen
1930 - A coup involving all services of the Argentine armed forces and led by General Uriburu overthrows Yrigoyen. Civilian rule is restored in 1932.
1939 - Outbreak of World War II. Argentina proclaims its neutrality.
1942 - Argentina, along with Chile, refuses to break diplomatic relations with Japan and Germany after the Japanese attack on the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.
1943 - Military regime seizes power. It is known to favor Japan and Germany. One of its leading figures is Colonel Juan Péron.
1944 - Argentina breaks diplomatic relations with Japan and Germany and declares war on them in 1945.
The Péron era begins
Juan Péron
1946 - Péron wins elections for the presidency. He had promised workers higher wages and social security. His wife, Eva Péron - 'Evita' - is put in charge of labor relations.
1949 - A new constitution strengthens the power of the president. Congress - dominated by Péron's supporters - passes legislation providing jail terms for anyone showing disrespect for the government. Regime opponents are subsequently imprisoned, independent newspapers are suppressed.
1951 - Péron is re-elected president with a huge majority.
1952 - Peron's wife dies of cancer. Peron's support begins to decline.
1955 June - An attempted coup by the Argentine navy is crushed, as the army remains loyal to Péron.
1955 September - Coup by all three branches of the armed forces succeeds after three days of fighting, during which thousands are killed. Peron resigns and takes refuge on a Paraguayan gunboat. He subsequently goes into exile in Paraguay, and later in Spain. The federal constitution of 1853, based on that of the United States, is restored.
1966 - Military rule is imposed again with a coup led by General Juan Carlos Ongania.
The return of Péron
1973 - The Peronist party wins elections in March. Hector Campora is inaugurated president. Argentina is wracked by terrorist violence. Péron returns to Buenos Aires in June. Campora resigns and Peron becomes president in September.
1974 - Péron dies in July. His third wife, Isabel, succeeds him. Terrorism from right and left escalates, leaving hundreds dead. There are strikes, demonstrations and high inflation.
1976 - A military junta under General Jorge Videla seizes power. Parliament is dissolved. Opponents of the regime are rounded up in the 'Dirty War', which is to see thousands of people 'disappear'.
1981 - General Leopold Galtieri heads the military regime.
The Falklands War
1982 April - Argentine forces occupy the British-held Falkland Islands, which Argentina calls Islas Malvinas and over which it had long claimed sovereignty. The United Kingdom dispatches a force to re-take the islands, which it does in June. More than 700 Argentines are killed in the fighting. Galtieri is replaced by General Reynaldo Bignone.
1983 - Argentina returns to civilian rule. Raul Alfonsin becomes president. Argentina begins to investigate the 'Dirty War' and charge former military leaders with human rights abuses.
1989 - Carlos Menem of the Peronist party is elected president. He imposes an economic austerity program.
Carlos Menem
1990 - Full diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom are restored, with Argentina still maintaining its claim to the Falklands.
1992 - Argentina introduces a new currency, the peso, which is pegged to the US dollar. A bomb is placed in the Israeli embassy, 29 people are killed.
1994 - A Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires is bombed. 86 people are killed and more than 200 injured.
1995 - Menem is re-elected.
1996 - Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo is dismissed. Economic hardship leads to a general strike in September.
1997 - A judge in Spain issues orders for the arrest of former Argentine military officers on charges of participating in the kidnapping and killing of Spanish citizens during the 'Dirty War'. Argentine amnesty laws protect the accused.
Recession bites
1998 - Argentine judges order arrests in connection with the abduction of hundreds of babies from women detained during the 'Dirty War'.
Recession starts.
1999 - Fernando de la Rua of the centre-left Alianza opposition coalition wins the presidency, inherits 114 billion-dollar public debt.
2000 - Strikes and fuel tax protests. Beef exports slump after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. Soya exports suffer from concerns over the use of genetically modified varieties. The IMF grants Argentina an aid package of nearly 40 billion dollars.
2001 - February - Argentina recalls its ambassador to Cuba after President Castro accuses Argentina of 'licking the Yankee boot'. Castro made the remarks in an apparent reference to Argentina's support for US condemnation of Cuba's record on human rights.
Argentina and the United Kingdom agree that Argentine private aircraft and vessels may now visit the Falkland Islands again.
2001 - March - President de la Rua forms a government of national unity and appoints three finance ministers in as many weeks as cabinet resignations and protests greet planned austerity measures.
2001 - July - Former president Carlos Menem is charged with heading and illicit organization' that violated international arms embargoes against Croatia and Ecuador in the early 1990s. A court throws out all arms trafficking charges against Menem, freeing him after five months of house arrest.
2001 - July - Much of the country is brought to a standstill by a general strike in protest against proposed government spending cuts. Country's credit ratings slip.
Return of the Peronists
2001 - October - The opposition Peronists take control of both houses of parliament in Congressional elections.
2001 - November - President de la Rua meets US President George W Bush in a last-ditch attempt to avoid an economic crash in Argentina. Share prices reach record lows.
2001 - December - Economy Minister Cavallo announces sweeping restrictions to halt an exodus of bank deposits. The IMF stops $1.3bn in aid.
2001 - 13 December - A 24-hour general strike is held in protest at curbs on bank withdrawals, delayed pension payouts and other measures.
2001 - 20 December - President Fernando de la Rua resigns after at least 25 people die in street protests and rioting.
2001 - 23 December - Adolfo Rodriguez Saa named new interim president. He resigns on 30 December, citing a lack of support within his party.
2002 - 1 January - Congress elects Peronist Senator Eduardo Duhalde as caretaker president. Within days the government devalues the peso, ending 10 years of parity with the US dollar.
2002 - April - Banking and foreign exchange activity suspended; Duhalde says the financial system could collapse.
2002 - July - Duhalde calls early elections for March 2003, later put back to April, to try win public support for the government's handling of the economic crisis.
2002 - November - Argentina defaults on an $800m debt repayment to the World Bank, having failed to re-secure IMF aid. The World Bank says it will not consider new loans for the country.
2003 - May - Nestor Kirchner sworn in as president. Former President Carlos Menem gained most votes in first round of elections but pulled out before second round.
Nestor Kirchner
August - Congress, Senate vote to scrap laws protecting former military officers from prosecution over human rights abuses during military regime.
2004 - December - Former President Carlos Menem returns from self-imposed exile in Chile after two arrest warrants are cancelled.
2005 - March - President Kirchner declares the restructuring of the country's debt to be a success. Argentina offered to exchange more than $100bn in defaulted bonds.
2005 - June - Supreme Court scraps an amnesty law protecting former military officers suspected of human rights abuses during military rule between 1976 and 1983.
2005 - November - Argentina hosts the 34-nation Summit of the Americas, an event accompanied by sometimes-violent protests against free trade and US President Bush.
2006 - January - Argentina repays its multi-billion-dollar debt to the IMF.
2006 - May - Citing environmental concerns, Argentina files a complaint against the construction of two pulp mills in neighboring Uruguay at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The court rules in July that the project can continue.
2006 - October - Violence mars the reburial of former President Juan Domingo Peron at a new mausoleum outside Buenos Aires.
2007 - January - Spanish police arrest former President Isabel Peron in connection with an Argentine investigation into the activities of right-wing paramilitaries in the 1970s.
Fernandez elected
2007 - October - Former Roman Catholic police chaplain Christian Von Wernich is convicted of collaborating in the murder and torture of prisoners during the 'Dirty War'.
2007 - December - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner sworn in as president.
Cristina Fernandez
2008 - April - A Spanish court rejects a request from Buenos Aires to extradite former Argentine president Isabel Peron, wanted for alleged human rights abuses.
2008 - July - President Fernandez cancels controversial tax increases on agricultural exports that sparked months of protests by farmers.
2008 - August - Two former generals are sentenced to life imprisonment for their actions during the period of Argentina's military rule - known as the Dirty War - during the 1970s and 1980s.
2008 - November - Lower house of parliament approves government's controversial plan to nationalize pension funds. President Fernandez says the move is necessary to protect pensioners' assets during the global financial crisis.
2009 - January - Government declares state of emergency over worst drought in decades.
2009 - February - Farmers threaten to halt livestock and grain sales in protest at agricultural export taxes.
2009 - July - Legislative elections result in President Fernandez's Peronist party losing its absolute majorities in both houses of parliament.
Argentina gets into a fight with Britain
2009 - April - Argentina hands documents to UN formally laying claim to a vast expanse of the ocean, as far as the Antarctic and including island chains governed by Britain.
2009 - March - Britain rejects calls from Argentina for talks over the future sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.
2009 - December - Argentine parliament passes law claiming Falkland Islands and several other British overseas territories in the area.
2010 - February - Argentina imposes new controls on ships passing through its waters to Falkland Islands in response to plans by a British company to drill for oil near the islands.
More Notes:
- In WWII and WWI Argentina was neutral until March 27, 1945, when they claimed war on Axis Powers.
This is when Juan Péron emerged as a leader
He won the presidential elections in 1946
Opposition to Péron's authoritarianism led to a political coup and the exile of Péron in 1995
Péron returned to Power in 1973, making his 3rd wife, Isabel Péron vp.
When Péron died in 1974 his wife became president
- There was a terrorist attack in 1975 that killed around 700 people: this was not good for her presidency
In 1976 the military began the "dirty war" to regain military power and control. During this war:
- Over 2,300 murders
- 10,000 political arrests
- and the disappearances of 20 to 30,000 people
- it ended in 1981 when General Leopold Galtieri came into power
Under him, Argentina invaded the British Falkland Islands to gain popularity with his people
- This was a failed attempt, the British won and 3 days after agreeing to surrender, Galteiri resigned
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/economic_history_of_Argentina
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107288.html ARGENTINA TIMELINE - a chronology of important events in Argentina's History
1916 - Hipolito Yrigoyen of the Radical party is elected president. He introduces a minimum wage to counter the effects of inflation. Yrigoyen is elected again in 1928.
1930 - A coup involving all services of the Argentine armed forces and led by General Uriburu overthrows Yrigoyen. Civilian rule is restored in 1932.
1939 - Outbreak of World War II. Argentina proclaims its neutrality.
1942 - Argentina, along with Chile, refuses to break diplomatic relations with Japan and Germany after the Japanese attack on the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.
1943 - Military regime seizes power. It is known to favor Japan and Germany. One of its leading figures is Colonel Juan Péron.
1944 - Argentina breaks diplomatic relations with Japan and Germany and declares war on them in 1945.
The Péron era begins
1946 - Péron wins elections for the presidency. He had promised workers higher wages and social security. His wife, Eva Péron - 'Evita' - is put in charge of labor relations.
1949 - A new constitution strengthens the power of the president. Congress - dominated by Péron's supporters - passes legislation providing jail terms for anyone showing disrespect for the government. Regime opponents are subsequently imprisoned, independent newspapers are suppressed.
1951 - Péron is re-elected president with a huge majority.
1952 - Peron's wife dies of cancer. Peron's support begins to decline.
1955 June - An attempted coup by the Argentine navy is crushed, as the army remains loyal to Péron.
1955 September - Coup by all three branches of the armed forces succeeds after three days of fighting, during which thousands are killed. Peron resigns and takes refuge on a Paraguayan gunboat. He subsequently goes into exile in Paraguay, and later in Spain. The federal constitution of 1853, based on that of the United States, is restored.
1966 - Military rule is imposed again with a coup led by General Juan Carlos Ongania.
The return of Péron
1973 - The Peronist party wins elections in March. Hector Campora is inaugurated president. Argentina is wracked by terrorist violence. Péron returns to Buenos Aires in June. Campora resigns and Peron becomes president in September.
1974 - Péron dies in July. His third wife, Isabel, succeeds him. Terrorism from right and left escalates, leaving hundreds dead. There are strikes, demonstrations and high inflation.
1976 - A military junta under General Jorge Videla seizes power. Parliament is dissolved. Opponents of the regime are rounded up in the 'Dirty War', which is to see thousands of people 'disappear'.
1981 - General Leopold Galtieri heads the military regime.
The Falklands War
1982 April - Argentine forces occupy the British-held Falkland Islands, which Argentina calls Islas Malvinas and over which it had long claimed sovereignty. The United Kingdom dispatches a force to re-take the islands, which it does in June. More than 700 Argentines are killed in the fighting. Galtieri is replaced by General Reynaldo Bignone.
1983 - Argentina returns to civilian rule. Raul Alfonsin becomes president. Argentina begins to investigate the 'Dirty War' and charge former military leaders with human rights abuses.
1989 - Carlos Menem of the Peronist party is elected president. He imposes an economic austerity program.
1990 - Full diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom are restored, with Argentina still maintaining its claim to the Falklands.
1992 - Argentina introduces a new currency, the peso, which is pegged to the US dollar. A bomb is placed in the Israeli embassy, 29 people are killed.
1994 - A Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires is bombed. 86 people are killed and more than 200 injured.
1995 - Menem is re-elected.
1996 - Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo is dismissed. Economic hardship leads to a general strike in September.
1997 - A judge in Spain issues orders for the arrest of former Argentine military officers on charges of participating in the kidnapping and killing of Spanish citizens during the 'Dirty War'. Argentine amnesty laws protect the accused.
Recession bites
1998 - Argentine judges order arrests in connection with the abduction of hundreds of babies from women detained during the 'Dirty War'.
Recession starts.
1999 - Fernando de la Rua of the centre-left Alianza opposition coalition wins the presidency, inherits 114 billion-dollar public debt.
2000 - Strikes and fuel tax protests. Beef exports slump after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. Soya exports suffer from concerns over the use of genetically modified varieties. The IMF grants Argentina an aid package of nearly 40 billion dollars.
2001 - February - Argentina recalls its ambassador to Cuba after President Castro accuses Argentina of 'licking the Yankee boot'. Castro made the remarks in an apparent reference to Argentina's support for US condemnation of Cuba's record on human rights.
Argentina and the United Kingdom agree that Argentine private aircraft and vessels may now visit the Falkland Islands again.
2001 - March - President de la Rua forms a government of national unity and appoints three finance ministers in as many weeks as cabinet resignations and protests greet planned austerity measures.
2001 - July - Former president Carlos Menem is charged with heading and illicit organization' that violated international arms embargoes against Croatia and Ecuador in the early 1990s. A court throws out all arms trafficking charges against Menem, freeing him after five months of house arrest.
2001 - July - Much of the country is brought to a standstill by a general strike in protest against proposed government spending cuts. Country's credit ratings slip.
Return of the Peronists
2001 - October - The opposition Peronists take control of both houses of parliament in Congressional elections.
2001 - November - President de la Rua meets US President George W Bush in a last-ditch attempt to avoid an economic crash in Argentina. Share prices reach record lows.
2001 - December - Economy Minister Cavallo announces sweeping restrictions to halt an exodus of bank deposits. The IMF stops $1.3bn in aid.
2001 - 13 December - A 24-hour general strike is held in protest at curbs on bank withdrawals, delayed pension payouts and other measures.
2001 - 20 December - President Fernando de la Rua resigns after at least 25 people die in street protests and rioting.
2001 - 23 December - Adolfo Rodriguez Saa named new interim president. He resigns on 30 December, citing a lack of support within his party.
2002 - 1 January - Congress elects Peronist Senator Eduardo Duhalde as caretaker president. Within days the government devalues the peso, ending 10 years of parity with the US dollar.
2002 - April - Banking and foreign exchange activity suspended; Duhalde says the financial system could collapse.
2002 - July - Duhalde calls early elections for March 2003, later put back to April, to try win public support for the government's handling of the economic crisis.
2002 - November - Argentina defaults on an $800m debt repayment to the World Bank, having failed to re-secure IMF aid. The World Bank says it will not consider new loans for the country.
2003 - May - Nestor Kirchner sworn in as president. Former President Carlos Menem gained most votes in first round of elections but pulled out before second round.
August - Congress, Senate vote to scrap laws protecting former military officers from prosecution over human rights abuses during military regime.
2004 - December - Former President Carlos Menem returns from self-imposed exile in Chile after two arrest warrants are cancelled.
2005 - March - President Kirchner declares the restructuring of the country's debt to be a success. Argentina offered to exchange more than $100bn in defaulted bonds.
2005 - June - Supreme Court scraps an amnesty law protecting former military officers suspected of human rights abuses during military rule between 1976 and 1983.
2005 - November - Argentina hosts the 34-nation Summit of the Americas, an event accompanied by sometimes-violent protests against free trade and US President Bush.
2006 - January - Argentina repays its multi-billion-dollar debt to the IMF.
2006 - May - Citing environmental concerns, Argentina files a complaint against the construction of two pulp mills in neighboring Uruguay at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The court rules in July that the project can continue.
2006 - October - Violence mars the reburial of former President Juan Domingo Peron at a new mausoleum outside Buenos Aires.
2007 - January - Spanish police arrest former President Isabel Peron in connection with an Argentine investigation into the activities of right-wing paramilitaries in the 1970s.
Fernandez elected
2007 - October - Former Roman Catholic police chaplain Christian Von Wernich is convicted of collaborating in the murder and torture of prisoners during the 'Dirty War'.
2007 - December - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner sworn in as president.
Cristina Fernandez
2008 - April - A Spanish court rejects a request from Buenos Aires to extradite former Argentine president Isabel Peron, wanted for alleged human rights abuses.
2008 - July - President Fernandez cancels controversial tax increases on agricultural exports that sparked months of protests by farmers.
2008 - August - Two former generals are sentenced to life imprisonment for their actions during the period of Argentina's military rule - known as the Dirty War - during the 1970s and 1980s.
2008 - November - Lower house of parliament approves government's controversial plan to nationalize pension funds. President Fernandez says the move is necessary to protect pensioners' assets during the global financial crisis.
2009 - January - Government declares state of emergency over worst drought in decades.
2009 - February - Farmers threaten to halt livestock and grain sales in protest at agricultural export taxes.
2009 - July - Legislative elections result in President Fernandez's Peronist party losing its absolute majorities in both houses of parliament.
Argentina gets into a fight with Britain
2009 - April - Argentina hands documents to UN formally laying claim to a vast expanse of the ocean, as far as the Antarctic and including island chains governed by Britain.
2009 - March - Britain rejects calls from Argentina for talks over the future sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.
2009 - December - Argentine parliament passes law claiming Falkland Islands and several other British overseas territories in the area.
2010 - February - Argentina imposes new controls on ships passing through its waters to Falkland Islands in response to plans by a British company to drill for oil near the islands.
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More Notes:
- In WWII and WWI Argentina was neutral until March 27, 1945, when they claimed war on Axis Powers.
- This is when Juan Péron emerged as a leader
- He won the presidential elections in 1946
- Opposition to Péron's authoritarianism led to a political coup and the exile of Péron in 1995
- Péron returned to Power in 1973, making his 3rd wife, Isabel Péron vp.
- When Péron died in 1974 his wife became president
- There was a terrorist attack in 1975 that killed around 700 people: this was not good for her presidency- In 1976 the military began the "dirty war" to regain military power and control. During this war:
- Over 2,300 murders- 10,000 political arrests
- and the disappearances of 20 to 30,000 people
- it ended in 1981 when General Leopold Galtieri came into power
- Under him, Argentina invaded the British Falkland Islands to gain popularity with his people
- This was a failed attempt, the British won and 3 days after agreeing to surrender, Galteiri resignedPOWERPOINT:
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