Enlightenment · South America · Exploration
1726
Montevideo Founded
June 1726
Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, governor of Buenos Aires, established a fortified settlement on the northern shore of the Río de la Plata to check Portuguese encroachment from Brazil. The garrison town, named San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo, would grow into the capital of a nation that would not exist for another century.
In context
Also in 1726 (3 other events on record)
- Gulliver's Travels Published · Europe · Culture
- Academy of Sciences Opens in St. Petersburg · Europe · Science
- Cardinal Fleury Takes Power in France · Europe · Politics
Before and after in South America
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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