Events in the year 1879 in Argentina.
Incumbents President: Nicolás Avellaneda Vice President: Mariano Acosta
Governors Buenos Aires Province: Carlos Tejedor Cordoba: Antonio Del Viso Mendoza Province: Elías Villanueva Santa Fe Province: Simón de Iriondo
Vice Governors Buenos Aires Province: José María Moreno
Events April – Conquest of the Desert: Julio Argentino Roca begins his second sweep of the land up to the Río Negro, aiming to "extinguish, subdue or expel" the Indians who inhabit the region.The Argentine Military and the Boundary Dispute With Chile, 1870–1902, George V. Rauch, p. 47, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999 October – Roca gives up his military career to enter politics. 10 November – Tandanor, a worker-owned shipyard, is founded in Buenos Aires.Argentina: Tandanor, the old dog teaching itself new tricks. The America's Intelligence Wire. 2 November 2005. date unknown Argentina's first anarchist newspaper, El Descamisado, is launched.According to http://raforum.info/spip.php?article261&lang=fr (site of an extensive list of anarchist periodicals in Argentina) Aberdeen Angus cattle are first introduced to Argentina by Don Carlos Guerrero.
Arts and culture date unknown José Hernández publishes La Vuelta de Martín Fierro, the second and final part of his epic poem.Jorge Luis Borges, El "Martín Fierro" (). Eduardo Gutiérrez writes his major novel, Juan Moreira.McGill, Carlos Rodríguez (2002), "El Juan Moreira De Eduardo Gutiérrez: entre el discurso hegemónico y lo performativo, y la construcción del imaginario popular Argentino", MACLAS Latin American Essays.
Births 27 May – Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós, post-Impressionist painter (died 1968) 22 November – Julio Salvador Sagreras, guitarist and composer (died 1942)Biography (Spanish) . Accessed 8 December 2013 6 December – Rogelio Yrurtia, Realist sculptor (died 1950)
Deaths date unknown – Juan Madariaga, general (born 1809)
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