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Agustina Ortiz De Rozas
Agustina Ortiz de Rozas (1826-1898) was an Argentine philanthropist and political figure, president of the Sociedad de Beneficencia. She was the youngest sister of the general Juan Manuel de Rosas and was born in Buenos Aires. Ortiz married Lucio Norberto Mansilla at 15 years of age and had the five children: Lucio Victorio Mansilla Lucio Victorio Mansilla (December 23, 1831 – October 8, 1913) was an Argentinean General, journalist, politician and diplomat. He was later governor of the territory of the Gran Chaco between 1878 and 1879. His best-known literary work is '' ..., Eduarda, Lucio Norberto, Agustina and Carlos. She was renowned as one of the most beautiful women of her time according to many of her contemporaries. She played some role in Argentina's founding. References 1826 births 1898 deaths 19th-century Argentine women 19th-century Argentine people People from Buenos Aires {{philanthropist-stub ...
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Sociedad De Beneficencia De Buenos Aires
The Sociedad de Beneficencia de Buenos Aires, also known as Sociedad de Damas de Beneficencia or simply Sociedad de Beneficencia (English: Society of Beneficence), was an Argentine state institution. The association was created by president Bernardino Rivadavia in 1823. The purpose was to transfer social work from the Catholic church to the association after the Argentine independence. The first president was the patrician Mercedes de Lasala de Riglos. The organisation was administered by female Argentine philanthropists from the upper classes, with the founding members including Mariquita Sánchez (who presided the organization between 1830–1832 and 1866–1867), María Cabrera de Altolaguirre, Isabel Casamayor, Joaquina de Izquierdo, Josefa Ramos Mejía, Isabel Agüero de Ugalde, Cipriana Viana y Bone, Manuela Aguirre, María de los Santos Riera del Sar, Bernardina Chavarría de Viamonte, María del Rosario Azcuénaga. Among the organisations placed under the supervision of the ...
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Juan Manuel De Rosas
Juan Manuel José Domingo Ortiz de Rosas (30 March 1793 – 14 March 1877), nicknamed "Restorer of the Laws", was an Argentine politician and army officer who ruled Buenos Aires Province and briefly the Argentine Confederation. Although born into a wealthy family, Rosas independently amassed a personal fortune, acquiring large tracts of land in the process. Rosas enlisted his workers in a private militia, as was common for rural proprietors, and took part in the disputes that led to numerous civil wars in his country. Victorious in warfare, personally influential, and with vast landholdings and a loyal private army, Rosas became a caudillo, as provincial warlords in the region were known. He eventually reached the rank of brigadier general, the highest in the Argentine Army, and became the undisputed leader of the Federalist Party. In December 1829, Rosas became governor of the province of Buenos Aires and established a dictatorship backed by state terrorism. In 1831, ...
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Lucio Norberto Mansilla
Lucio Norberto Mansilla (April 2, 1789 – April 10, 1871) was an Argentine soldier and politician. He was the first governor of the Entre Ríos Province and fought in the battle of Vuelta de Obligado. Early life Lucio Mansilla was born in Buenos Aires on April 2, 1789, son of Andrés Ximénez de Mansilla and Eduarda María Bravo. Lucio Mansilla was the 7th generation of the Mansilla family living in the Americas. He began his military career in 1806, during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata, under the command of Santiago de Liniers. He was part of the ''Gallegos'' regiment. He also fought in the 1807 invasions, in the combat of Miserere on June 2, and the actions of July 5 and 6. The Buenos Aires Cabildo allowed him to run a math school in 1809. Mansilla, a widower, married Juan Manuel de Rosas' sister, Agustina Ortiz de Rozas. They had six children: Lucio Victorio Mansilla, Eduarda, Lucio Norberto, Agustina and Carlos. War of independence Mansilla joined ...
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Lucio Victorio Mansilla
Lucio Victorio Mansilla (December 23, 1831 – October 8, 1913) was an Argentinean General, journalist, politician and diplomat. He was later governor of the territory of the Gran Chaco between 1878 and 1879. His best-known literary work is '' An Excursion to the Ranqueles Indians'', which was the result of a tour he undertook in 1870 through the villages of indigenous peoples. Early life and family Mansilla was born in a house in the Montserrat neighborhood, on the corner of Tacuarí and Potosí streets (today Alsina), known in colonial times as "the old prison" on December 23, 1831 (Saint Victoria's Day). He was the first-born son of federal colonel Lucio Norberto Mansilla, the hero of the Battle of the Vuelta de Obligado, and Agustina Ortiz de Rozas, tenth sister and younger sister of Juan Manuel de Rosas, a 15-year-old girl who was called ''the beauty of the federation''. Her sister was the writer and journalist Eduarda Mansilla. After finishing school, he was employed ...
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Eduarda Mansilla
Eduarda Damasia Mansilla Ortiz de Rozas de García (1834–1892) was a noted Argentine writer. Biography She was the daughter of Lucio Norberto Mansilla and niece of Juan Manuel de Rosas Her first novel under her own name was ''Pablo ou la via dans les pampas'' in 1869. As the title implies the novel was written in French. It concerned bringing order to the Pampas. The French language had esteem in Argentina and she had spent time in Paris. She also wrote of her visits to the United States where she sympathized with the Native Americans in the United States, while nevertheless emphasizing them as primitive, but also sympathized with the slave-owners of the Confederate States of America. In life she had to deal with men of conflicting political beliefs as her husband was the son of an opponent of Juan Manuel de Rosas. Musical influence Eduarda Mansilla was formally trained to be a musician. Growing up in Buenos Aires she had learned to play the piano. This particular aspect of her ...
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1826 Births
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1898 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, ''J'Accuse…!'', is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper ''L'Aurore'', accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The USS Maine (ACR-1), USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully establish ...
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19th-century Argentine Women
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large S ...
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19th-century Argentine People
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large ...
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