State of Buenos Aires
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State of Buenos Aires Estado de Buenos Aires | |||||||||
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| 1852–1861 | |||||||||
Governor | | ||||||||
• September 11 — October 31, 1852 | Manuel Pinto | ||||||||
• October 31 — December 7, 1852 | Valentín Alsina | ||||||||
• December 7, 1852 — June 28, 1853 | Manuel Pinto | ||||||||
• June 28, 1853 — December 21, 1858 | Pastor Obligado | ||||||||
• December 21, 1858 — October 23, 1859 | Valentín Alsina | ||||||||
• October 23, 1859 — May 3, 1860 | Felipe Llavallol | ||||||||
• May 3, 1860 — October 11, 1862 (as provincial governor after 1861) | Bartolomé Mitre | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| September 11 1852 | |||||||||
• Enactment of Constitution | April 12, 1854 | ||||||||
| August 30, 1857 | |||||||||
| October 23, 1859 | |||||||||
| September 17, 1861 | |||||||||
• Establishment of the Argentine Republic | December 12 1861 | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1855 census | 248,498 | ||||||||
| Currency | peso moneda corriente | ||||||||
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The State of Buenos Aires (
Historical overview
Background
An understanding was entered into by Buenos Aires Governor
The granting of the sum of public power to Rosas in 1835 established a dynamic whereby leaders (caudillos) from the hinterland provinces would delegate certain powers, such as foreign debt payment or the management of international relations to the Buenos Aires leader. The Argentine Confederation thus functioned, albeit amid ongoing conflicts, until the 1852 Battle of Caseros, when Rosas was deposed and exiled.
Establishment
The central figure in the
Governor López y Planes ultimately resigned on July 26, prompting Urquiza to seize the governor's post through a Federal intervention decree.[dubious ] His departure to Santa Fe on September 8 for the inaugural session of Congress prompted the September 11 coup d'état against the provisional administration of Governor José Miguel Galán. Led in its military aspect by General José María Pirán and ideologically by Dr. Valentín Alsina and Colonel Mitre, the September 11 revolt created the foremost threat to both the Confederation and Urquiza: Alsina ordered General Juan Madariaga to invade Santa Fe within days of the coup (though without success).
Naming the aging
Constitutional government
Jurist
Obligado reformed the practice of
In 1855 the Paraguayan government of Carlos Antonio López, annoyed that the Congress of the Argentine Confederation had refused to ratify the 1852 Treaty of Limits (by which the Argentine Confederation would have got the territory of Misiones, but Paraguay would have got the Chaco north of the Bermejo River), established relations with the State of Buenos Aires and appointed a Paraguayan consul.[4]
Persistent budget deficits in the Confederation led the Paraná government to establish the Port of Rosario, and to enter into free trade agreements with the Port of Montevideo (to the detriment of Buenos Aires). Worsening relations led to the re-election of Valentín Alsina as governor at the end of 1858, and in February 1859, Alsina enacted retaliatory tariffs against Confederate goods.
Tensions culminated in the Battle of Cepeda of October 23, 1859. Buenos Aires forces, led by General Mitre, were defeated by those led by President Urquiza. Ordered by Congress in Santa Fe to subjugate Buenos Aires separatists by force, Urquiza instead invited the defeated to join negotiations, though he obtained Alsina's resignation. These talks resulted in the Pact of San José de Flores of November 11, 1859, which provided for a number of constitutional amendments and led to other concessions, including an extension on the province's customs house concession and measures benefiting the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires, whose currency was authorized for use as legal tender at the port (thereby controlling much of the nation's foreign trade).
Mitre ultimately abrogated the Pact of San José, leading to renewed civil war. These hostilities culminated in the 1861
References
- ^ Santillán, v.2, p. 512
- ^ Santillán, v.2, p. 551
- ^ "Estado de Buenos Ayres: Historia del censo".
- ^ Doratioto, Francisco (2008). Maldita Guerra (in Spanish) (3rd ed.). Buenos Aires: emecé argentina., p.28.
Bibliography
- Abad de Santillán, Diego. Historia Argentina (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: TEA (Tipográfica Editora Argentina).
- Historical Dictionary of Argentina. London: Scarecrow Press, 1978.
- "El Convenio de Unión o Pacto de San José de Flores (noviembre de 1859)" (in Spanish). Universidad del CEMA.
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