1. Incumbents

2. Events

3. Arts and culture

4. Births

5. Deaths

6. References

Events in the year 1879 in Argentina.

Incumbents

• President: Nicolás Avellaneda
• Vice President: Mariano Acosta

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.^[1]
• October – Roca gives up his military career to enter politics.
• 10 November - Tandanor, a worker-owned shipyard, is founded in Buenos Aires.^[2]
• date unknown
  • Argentina's first anarchist newspaper, El Descamisado, is launched.^[3]
• 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.^[4]
  • Eduardo Gutiérrez writes his major novel, Juan Moreira.^[5]

Births

• 27 May – Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós, post-Impressionist painter (died 1968)
• 22 November – Julio Salvador Sagreras, guitarist and composer (died 1942)^[6]
• 6 December – Rogelio Yrurtia, Realist sculptor (died 1950)^[7]

Deaths

• date unknown – Juan Madariaga, general (born 1809)

References

• Roommates (1995 film)
• Roommates (Undergrads)
• Room modes
• Room Nine
• Room Noises
• Room number
• Room of gaff
• Room of Gaff
• Room of guf
• Room One
• Room On Fire
• Room on the 3rd Floor (single)
• Room On The 3rd Floor (Single)
• Room on the Third Floor
• Room-over-room
• Roomrama
• Roomsch-Katholieke Bond van kiesvereenigingen
• Roomsch-Katholieke Bond van Kiesvereenigingen
• Roomsch-Katholieke Bond van Kiesverenigingen
• Roomsch Katholieke Staatspartij
• Roomsch-Katholieke Staatspartij
• Roomsch-Katholieke Volkspartij
• Room Service
• Room Service (1938 movie)
• Room Service (2007 film)