1867 in Argentina

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See also:	Other events of 1867 List of years in Argentina

Events in the year 1867 in Argentina.

Incumbents

• President: Bartolomé Mitre
• Vice President: Marcos Paz

Events

• 27 March – founding of the Club Atlético del Rosario
• 9 May – British immigrants Thomas and James Hogg found the Buenos Aires Football Club, effectively marking the beginning of the sport in Argentina.[1]
• 8 July – Paraguayan War: Staff Sargeant Roberto A. Chodasiewicz uses an observation balloon during the battle of Humaitá.
• 31 October – establishment of the Benito Juárez Partido
• 15 November
  • La Capital is founded in Rosario, the oldest Argentine newspaper still in circulation.[2]
  • Ferrocarril Andino, the first state-owned railway in Argentina, is founded.[3]
• 25 November – establishment of the Olavarría Partido

Births

• 6 January – Pelagio Luna, politician (died 1919)
• 8 March – Gregorio de Laferrère, politician and playwright (died 1913)
• 19 April – Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane, first woman in Argentina to obtain a medical degree and "the mother of women's rights in Argentina"[4] (died 1954)

Deaths

• 2 June – Pascual Echagüe, soldier and politician (born 1797)
• 5 November – Santiago Derqui

References

1. The Standard, 25 May 1867
2. La Capital: History (Spanish) Archived 3 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 21 November 2013
3. Lewis, Colin M. (1983). British Railways in Argentina 1857–1914: A Case Study of Foreign Investment. Athlone Press (for the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London).
4. "Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane (1867–1954)". University of Notre Dame Hesburg libraries. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2013.