Argentine Civil Wars

Belligerents1814-1820:

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1825-27:

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1828-32:

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1839-52:

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1852-62:
Argentine Confederation

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1868-80:
1814-20:

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1825-27:

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1828-32:

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1838-52:

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1852-62:
State of Buenos Aires

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1868-1880:
Commanders and leadersJosé Gervasio Artigas (1814–1820)
Francisco Ramírez† (1814–1821)
Estanislao López (1814–1838)
Carlos María de Alvear (1815–1852)
José Miguel Carrera (1818–1821)
Facundo Quiroga† (1820–1835)
Manuel Oribe (1825–1851)
Manuel Dorrego (1826–1828)
Juan Manuel de Rosas (1828–1852)
Justo José de Urquiza† (1835–1870)
Chacho Peñaloza† (1836–1863)
Ricardo López Jordán (1870–1876)José Rondeau† (1814–1844)
Juan Lavalle† (1814–1841)
Bernardino Rivadavia (1821–1834)
José María Paz(POW) (1829–1854)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1831–1874)
Bartolomé Mitre (1839–1880)
Fructuoso Rivera
Venancio Flores

The Argentine Civil Wars (Spanish: Guerras civiles argentinas) were a series of civil conflicts of varying intensity that took place from 1814 to 1853 in the territories of Argentina. Beginning concurrently with the Argentine War of Independence (1810 to 1818), the conflicts prevented the formation of a stable governing body until the signing of the Argentine Constitution of 1853, followed by low-frequency skirmishes that ended with the Federalization of Buenos Aires in 1880.

Initially, conflict arose from tensions over the organization and powers of the United Provinces of South America. The May 1810 revolution sparked the breakdown of the Viceroyalty's intendencies (regional administrations) into local cabildos, and was generally opposed to centralism, as manifested in its rejection of the central government being able to install and remove the governors of the new provinces. Escalation of the conflict resulted in the dissolution of the directorship and the Congress, leaving the Argentine provinces under the leadership of personalist strongmen called caudillos, and leading to sporadic skirmishes until the re-establishment of relative peace after the war between the League of the Interior and the Federal Pact. However, conflicting interests did not permit the creation of a governing body until the Pact's defeat during the Platine War.

Later conflicts centered around commercial control of the Paraná and Uruguay rivers and of Buenos Aires, the country's only port, which saw the secession of Buenos Aires from the Argentine Confederation. Re-unification subsequently became possible with the de-escalation of hostilities that occurred as the battleground moved from armed mutinies to debates within the political system of the Argentine Republic.

This period also saw heavy intervention from the Brazilian Empire, which fought against the Argentine state and provinces in multiple wars. Breakaway nations and former territories of the Viceroyalty such as the Banda Oriental, Paraguay, and Upper Peru were involved to varying degrees. Foreign powers such as the British and French empires also put heavy pressure on the fledgling nations during international wars.