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The early Bourbon reforms were, at their core, an effort to streamline Spain's fiscal and military efficiency to cope with the demands of war during one of the most consequential military confrontations in early modern Europe. -
The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, also known as the Viceroyalty of Buenos Aires or the Viceroyalty of La Plata, was a political-territorial entity that established the Spanish Crown in America as an integral part of the Spanish Empire.7 -
The French revolution begins, the French Revolution (in French: Révolution française) was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, that convulsed the France of the Ancien Regime, and other countries by extension of its implications.
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In turn, the Revolution is considered to end when Napoleon Bonaparte carried out a coup d'état in November 1799 and established the Consulate and the Empire as a political regime. -
Napoleon's empire begins, On 9 November 1799, as frustration with their leadership reaches a fever pitch, Bonaparte stages a coup d'état, abolishing the Directory and appointing himself France's 'first consul'. This marks the end of the French Revolution and the start of the Napoleonic era. -
The Argentine War of Independence was the set of combats and military campaigns that occurred within the framework of the Spanish American wars of independence in various South American countries.
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Argentina, like other South American colonies, desired independence from Spain due to the economic exploitation that Spain had engaged in for centuries.
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After the Allies entered Paris in March 1814, Napoleon abdicated and was exiled to the island of Elba. He returned to France in March 1815 and rebuilt his army, but he was defeated by Allied forces under the duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. -
The viceroyalty began to disintegrate in 1810, when most of the component jurisdictions ejected their Spanish officials. Initially the new governments swore allegiance to the Spanish monarch, and they did not begin to declare independence until the following year. -
The Federal Government shall foster European immigration; and may not restrict, limit or burden with any tax whatsoever, the entry into the Argentine territory of foreigners who arrive for the purpose of tilling the soil, improving industries, and introducing and teaching arts and sciences.