Celebrating our bicentennial

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

He was an argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and the seventh president of Argentina. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837.

Sarmiento was born on February 15^th in 1811, in San Juan, Argentina. In 1816 he entered a “school of the Nation”. When  he finished primary, his mother wanted him to study for the priesthood in Córdoba, but Sarmiento refused and filed a scholarship to study in San Juan.

His first exile was in 1831 because of the federal victory in his province and was exiled until 1836. The second was in 1840, because of the strong criticism that directed the government from the newspaper “El Zonda”, he spent 9 years in Chile.

He was noted for his laborious struggle in public education so as to contribute to the scientific and cultural progress of their country. He became governor of San Juan, where he enected the Law on compulsory primary education. At 57 he was elected president of the Republic, who served between 1868 and 1874.

Sarmiento died in Asunción, Paraguay at the age of 77 from a heart attack. He was buried in Buenos Aires.

Lourdes Ferreira & Florencia Melgin

5º3º (2nd language)

Celebrating our Bicentennial

Juana Azurduy

She was born on July 12 , 1780. She is the representative of thousands of anonymous women who fought for the emancipation of the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata.
She studied in “Convento de Santa Teresa de Chuquisaca” to become a nun but she was fired at 17 years old because she was a rebel.
In 1805, she married Colonel Manuel Padilla Asencia . In 1812 , Azurduy organized the " Batallón Leales” and with her husband were put under the command of General Belgrano who gave him his sword in recognition of his struggle.
Azurduy , who fought even while pregnant and lost her children in the fight against the troops of the Spanish conquest, died in poverty in Sucre on May 25, 1862 . She was buried in a mass grave and their remains were exhumed just a hundred years later and placed in a mausoleum built in his honor in the city of Sucre .

Daniela Manduka & Sarah Riqueza
5º3º - 2nd language

Celebrating our Bicentennial

                    Manuel Belgrano

                   

 

We chose Manuel Belgrano because was patriot very important for our nation.

Manuel Belgrano was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 3 June, 1770.

He was the fourth son of thirteen brothers, his father was Don Domingo Belgrano and his mother Josefa Gónzales Casero. He studied in Spain at the University of Salamanca in 1786 and at Valladolid, where he graduated with a degree in law in 1793.

After that he was the secretary of the Buenos Aires official merchants’ guild (1794) , a position in which he advocated liberal ideas, particulary in Education and Economic reform.

He received his first military experience during the unsuccessful British invasion of the vice royalty of Rio de la Plata. In 1812 he decreed the adoption of what was became Argentina’s national flag.

Belgrano, like many other leaders of the South American independence movement, favoured the establishment of a monarchical type of government. To find a ruler, he went to Europe with Bernardino Rivadavia, who later became the first president of the Argentine republic. 

He died on June 20, 1820.

Julieta and Cecilia

5º3º 2nd language

Celebrating our Bicentennial

MARIANO MORENO

We chose Mariano Moreno because of his values, he was worried about people and he fought for social equality.

        

Mariano Moreno was born on September 23th 1778, in Buenos Aires. He was Manuel Moreno’s and Argumosa’s son.

He had thirteen brothers. He studied at Colegio San Carlos and he graduated with honors. Then he went to the University of Chuquisaca where he got his liberal ideas defending the free commerce and the Indian rights.

          He was a lawyer, a journalist and a politician of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. He was one of the main idealists and impellers of the May’s Revolution and he had an important role as one of the two secretaries of Primera Junta.

         He died on March 4^th 1811, on board of the English ship “Fame”, he was poisoned and his body was thrown to the sea. 

Guadalupe Sosa

Melina Díaz                                                                                                                                                           5º3º 2nd language