1776 Buenos Aires selected as viceregal capital
Buenos Aires rather than Asunción is chosen to be capital of the new Spanish viceroyalty of La Plata

1810 Argentina takes step towards independence
After a public meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentinians set up an autonomous local government in opposition to Spanish forces

1814 San Martin commands Argentinian patriots
José San Martín becomes commander of the patriot army of Argentina, replacing Manuel Belgrano

1814 Chile recovered by Spanish
Spanish forces at Rancagua defeat a Chilean army commanded by Bernardo O'Higgins, who escapes across the Andes into Argentina

1816 Argentina is independent
The independence of Argentina is formally proclaimed, dropping any pretence of remaining loyal to the Spanish king

1820 Argentina has Falklands
The newly independent republic of Argentina takes possession of Las Islas Malvinas (the Falklands)

1828 Uruguay achieves independence
The independence of Uruguay is agreed in the Treaty of Montevideo between Brazil and Argentina

1833 Britain takes Falklands from Argentina
Britain ejects the Argentinians from the Falklands and begins the process of settlement with British farmers

1835 Rosas becomes Argentinian dictator
Juan Manuel de Rosas becomes dictator of Argentina and imposes a brutally repressive conservative regime

1852 Urquiza replaces Rosas in Argentina
In an Argentinian civil war, Urquiza defeats the dictator Rosas and is subsequently elected president (in 1854)

1861 Buenos Aires proves its worth in battle
At Pavón the provincial troops of Buenos Aires defeat the Argentinian national army, emphatically demonstrating the power of their city

1865 Paraguay takes on three neighbours at once
The Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano López starts a war against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay which eventually kills more than half his population

1866 Argentine Rural Society
The Argentine Rural Society is founded as the exclusive preserve of Argentina's oligarchy

1880 Buenos Aires is capital
Buenos Aires is finally accepted as the permanent capital city of Argentina

1912 Argentinians get the vote
Electoral reform is introduced in Argentina, with universal male suffrage and a secret ballot

1913 Subway in Buenos Aires
An underground railway opens in Buenos Aires, the first subway in Latin America

1916 Argentina has radical president
The election of Hipolito Irigoyen as president begins sixteen years of radical government in Argentina

1923 Borges' first collection
Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges publishes his first collection of poems, Fervor de Buenos Aires ('Fervour of Buenos Aires')

1930 Coup in Argentina
A military coup removes Hipolito Irigoyen from the presidency in Argentina

1935 Universal History of Infamy
Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges publishes A Universal History of Infamy, one of the first examples of magic realism

1939 December 13 Battle of the River Plate
The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled after a battle with Allied ships near the river Plate

1943 Coup in Argentina
Power is seized in Argentina by a new military junta, the Group of United Officers

1944 Borges's Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges publishes Fictions, a collection of short stories

1945 Perón arrested
Juan Perón, professed friend of the poor in Argentina, is arrested by brother officers

1945 Popular support frees Perón
A mass demonstration by trade unions in Buenos Aires results in the release of Perón

1946 Perón elected president
Perón, with the orchestrated support of gangs of thugs, is elected president of Argentina

1951 Fangio is world champion
Argentinian driver Juan Manuel Fangio wins the first of five Grand Prix world championship titles

1952 Eva Perón wins cult status
Eva Perón dies of cancer and achieves the status of a popular saint in Argentina

1955 Perón resigns in Argentina
A military uprising in Argentina forces Perón to resign and go into exile

1960 Eichmann seized in Argentina
Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, discovered in Buenos Aires, is kidnapped by Israeli agents

1965 Argentina and Britain to negotiate
The General Assembly of the UN asks Argentina and Britain to enter negotiations on their long-running dispute over the Falklands

1973 Perón president again
The 77-year-old Juan Perón, after returning to Argentina, is once again elected president

1974 Isabel Perón succeeds husband
Isabel Perón becomes president of Argentina on the death of her husband Juan Perón

1976 Isabelita Perón overthrown
A military coup in Argentina brings to an end the two-year presidency of Juan Perón's widow, Isabelita

1981 Galtieri takes control in Argentina
Leopoldo Galtieri becomes leader of the military junta ruling Argentina

1982 Argentinians invade Falklands
5000 Argentinian troops land in the Falkland Islands, provoking war with Britain

1982 Belgrano is sunk
The Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano is sunk by a British torpedo, with the loss of 368 lives

1982 Argentinians surrender in Falklands War
British troops recapture Port Stanley, after which the Argentinian forces in the Falklands surrender

1982 Argentinian leader resigns
The leader of the Argentinian junta, Leopoldo Galtieri, resigns three days after the Falklands defeat

1982 Maradona sold for record fee
Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona is sold to Barcelona for a new record fee of £5 million, almost double the highest previous figure

1983 Argentine junta on trial
A civilian government, voted into power in Argentina, prosecutes members of the military junta for civil rights abuses

1986 Maradona's 'hand of God'
Argentina wins the World Cup quarter final against England with help from Maradona and 'the hand of God'

1989 Menem is president
Carlos Menem is elected president of Argentina and introduces a free market economy

1995 Agreement on Falklands oil
Britain and Argentina come to an agreement concerning the future exploitation of oil around the Falkland Islands

2001 Crisis in Argentina
Five presidents succeed each other within a month in Argentina's economic crisis

2007 Frist female president in Argentina
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wins the presidential election in Argentina, becoming the first woman to do so

2012
Argentina submits a claim for large areas of the South Atlantic, including the Falkland Islands, under the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention