1871 in Argentina

1871
in
Argentina

Decades:
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
See also:Other events of 1871
List of years in Argentina

Events in the year 1871 in Argentina.

Incumbents

Events

  • 1 January – The Civil Code of Argentina, written by Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield, comes into effect.
  • 27 January – Yellow Fever in Buenos Aires: Three cases of yellow fever are diagnosed in the San Telmo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, which is full of tenements. The City Commission declines to warn the population of the danger of an epidemic.
  • 4 March – The Tribune newspaper reports that the streets of fever-infested Buenos Aires are so dark at night that "it truly appeared as if the terrible scourge had swept away all the residents".[1]
  • 9–11 April – 500 deaths are registered daily in Buenos Aires as a result of the yellow fever epidemic.
  • 7 May – Germany sends its first ambassador to Argentina.
  • August – The East Argentine Railway company is founded by British investors.[2]
  • 24 October – The Argentine National Observatory is founded by President Domingo F. Sarmiento and the North American astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould.[3]

Deaths

References

  1. Citado en Crónica Histórica Argentina, Tomo IV, Ed. CODEX (ver detalle en bibliografía)
  2. Colin M. Lewis, British Railways in Argentina 1857–1914: A Case Study of Foreign Investment, Athlone Press (for the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London), 1983
  3. Sir Norman Lockyer (1917). Nature. Macmillan Journals Limited. p. 305.
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