MAPS OF HISTORY · HISTORY OF · Argentina
ONE LAND · 3 ATLASES
Argentina, on the map of history
What was Argentina before it was Argentina? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History collection — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Río de la Plata (mod. Argentina) · The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848
The Río de la Plata expelled two British invasions itself (1806–07), made its May Revolution (1810) and was never reconquered — then spent decades arguing what it had made: Buenos Aires against provinces, unitarians against federalists, down to the Rosas dictatorship. Its gift to the age was San Martín: the Andes crossing, three countries freed, and the great renunciation at Guayaquil.
| APR 1775 | Colonial possessions — the opening position |
| MAY 1810 | Republics & revolutionary states |
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Argentina · The Great War, 1914–1918
Argentina · The Cold War, 1945–1991
| AUG 1945 | US-aligned states — the opening position |
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