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1872 in Argentina

overview of Argentina-related events during the year of 1872

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ4555381 ↗
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Events in the year 1872 in Argentina.

Incumbents

President: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Vice President: Adolfo Alsina

Governors

Buenos Aires Province: Emilio de Castro y Rocha (until 3 May); Mariano Acosta (from 3 May)

Cordoba: Juan Antonio Álvarez

Mendoza Province: Arístides Villanueva

Santa Fe Province: Simón de Iriondo

Vice Governors

Buenos Aires Province: vacant

Events

date unknown - The Argentine government awards the concession for the Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway to John E. Clark for the construction of a railway from Buenos Aires to Chile.

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This entry incorporates text from “1872 in Argentina” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.