Events in the year 1886 in Argentina.
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Incumbents
edit- President: Julio Argentino Roca (to 12 October); Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman (from 12 October)
- Vice President: Francisco Bernabé Madero (to 12 October); Carlos Pellegrini (from 12 October)
Governors
edit- Buenos Aires Province: Carlos Alfredo D'Amico
- Cordoba: Gregorio Gavier then Ambrosio Olmos
- Mendoza Province: Rufino Ortega
- Santa Fe Province: Manuel María Zavalla then José Gálvez
Vice Governors
edit- Buenos Aires Province: Matías Cardoso
Events
edit- 3 April – President Julio Argentino Roca, with the support of the agricultural elites – as well as of the London financial powerhouse, Barings Bank – fields his son-in-law, Córdoba Province Governor Miguel Juárez Celman, as the PAN candidate for president; he is elected almost unanimously.[1]
Births
edit- 23 February – Antonio Alice, painter (died 1943)
- 6 June – Salvador Mazza, epidemiologist (died 1946)[2]
- 20 December – Celestino Piaggio, pianist, conductor and composer (died 1931)
Deaths
edit- 1 February – Juan Esteban Pedernera, acting president in 1861 (born 1796)
- 21 October – José Hernández, journalist, poet, and politician (born 1834; heart disease)[3]
References
edit- ^ Todo Argentina: 1886 Archived 23 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ Historia de la enfermedad de Chagas (in Spanish) Archived 4 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jorge Luis Borges, "José Hernández", in El Martín Fierro (ISBN 8420619337)
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