1759 Pedro Miguel Aráoz, statesman and priest and a representative to the Congress of Tucumán is born in Tucumán
1811 The Battle of Huaqui, between the Primera Junta's revolutionary troops and the royalist troops of the Viceroyalty of Peru on the border with Upper Peru (present-day Bolivia).
1820 Manuel Belgrano, leader in the Argentine War of Independence dies. This day is commemorated in Argentina as Flag Day.