1864 in Argentina

Incumbents

• President: Bartolomé Mitre
• Vice President: Marcos Paz

Events

• 10 August – Uruguayan War: War breaks out between Brazil and Uruguay, despite negotiations involving Argentine Foreign Minister Rufino de Elizalde.^[1]
• 25 October – establishment of General Las Heras Partido
• 13 December – Paraguayan War: Paraguay declares war on Brazil; war with Argentina follows three months later.^[2]
• The classic aperitif Hesperidina is invented by American immigrant Melville Sewell Bagley in Buenos Aires.^[3]

Deaths

• 30 October – Jonas Coe ("Comodoro Juan Coe"), US naval commander and supporter of Juan Manuel de Rosas (born 1805).^[4]

References

1. Whigham, Thomas L. (2002). The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct 1. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-4786-4.
2. Scheina, Robert (2003). Latin America's Wars: The Age of the Caudillo, 1791–1899. Dulles, Virginia: Brassey's.
3. Paul H. Lewis (1990), The Crisis of Argentine Capitalism, University of North Carolina Press, pp. 59–60, ISBN 9780807818626
4. Pérez Calvo, Lucio Ricardo (2008). Norteamericanos en la Argentina. Pérez Calvo, p. 143. ISBN 9870553478 (Spanish)