Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
The viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata ( Spanish Virreinato del Río de la Plata ) was the southernmost of the Spanish viceroys in Latin America. It existed from 1776 to 1814 and roughly comprised the present-day states of Argentina , Bolivia , Paraguay , Uruguay and a strip in the north of present-day Chile , only part of which was effectively controlled.
history
It was separated from the Viceroyalty of Peru on August 1, 1776 . The capital and seat of the viceroy was Buenos Aires . The administration was initially incumbent on the governor of Buenos Aires, Pedro de Cevallos , who was appointed the first viceroy on October 15, 1777. It was not until 1785 that a court of justice for the area was established with the Real Audiencia of Buenos Aires .
From 1810 onwards, the empire began to dissolve. After the May Revolution in 1810 , Montevideo, which was still under Spanish rule, was declared the capital under the new Viceroy Francisco Javier de Elío in January 1811 . At the end of 1811 Elío fled to Spain and left the governor Gaspar de Vigodet in command of Montevideo and with it the remnants of the viceroyalty. After the second siege of Montevideo (1812 to 1814) by the revolutionary troops, the viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata ended de facto.
Paraguay split off from La Plata in the course of the independence struggle in 1811 and Uruguay in 1815. Argentina, whose independence struggle in 1810 as Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata together with Uruguay (at that time still called Banda Oriental , "eastern strip") and the Bolivian department Tarija finally gained independence from Spain in 1816. Bolivia was not liberated from Spanish colonial power until 1825 by Simón Bolívar . Uruguay became an independent state after the Portuguese-Brazilian annexation in 1816 and the Argentine-Brazilian War in 1828.
See also
literature
- John Lynch: Spanish Colonial Administration, 1782-1810: The Intendant System in the Viceroyalty of the Rio de La Plata (University of London. Historical Studies) . Greenwood Press, London, no year, ISBN 0-8371-0546-3
Web links
- www.monografias.com (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wikisource: Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) / Argentine Republic (English), accessed on August 1, 2010
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