Industrial Age · South America · Politics
1810
May Revolution in Buenos Aires
May 25, 1810
A crowd in the Plaza Mayor demanded the removal of the Spanish viceroy and got a junta of criollos instead. News of Napoleon's capture of Seville had made royal authority a joke. Argentine independence would not be declared for six more years, but Spain's American empire had begun to unravel from the south.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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