Argentina - Country - History

Even though the declaration of independence was signed on July 9th, 1816, for almost ten years Argentina was showing its union and its longing for legitimacy. In 1806, it suffered the first English invasion and it knew how to defend itself by its own means without the need of the Spanish army, which gave way to the latent possibility of independence. On May 25th, 1810, in what would later be called the May Revolution, the country appointed its first viceroy in an open town hall meeting, rejecting Spanish government’s power that was being governed by the Napoleonic Empire.

During the following years the independence war took place and finished when the country declared its autonomy in the General Congress in the province of Tucuman. After several national agreements, in 1853 the terms of the current Constitution was signed and the country began to occupy its place in the world. Closer to the Bicentennial, the hole nation is prepared to celebrate its first 200 years of history.