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1940 in Paraguay

overview of Paraguay-related events during the year of 1940

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ17149971 ↗
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Events in the year 1940 in Paraguay.

Incumbents

President of Paraguay: José Félix Estigarribia until September 7, then Higinio Moríñigo

Minister of War and Navy: Higinio Moríñigo until September 7, then Paulino Ántola

Events

February 19 - President Estigarribia dissolves the legislature and suspends the Constitution

August 4 - Paraguayan constitutional referendum, 1940

September 7 - President Estigarribia and his wife are killed in a plane crash in Agapuey while on a tour of the interior.

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“1940 in Paraguay” enters the record as overview of Paraguay-related events during the year of 1940. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Paraguay, overview and Paraguay-related can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1940 in Paraguay” 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.