Died 1888-09-11.
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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837, who had a great influence on 19th-century Argentina.
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culture · President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874 · politician · writer · journalist · military personnel · diplomat · historian · also Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Sarmiento
Born 15 February 1811 · Died 11 September 1888 · Q254041
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La Federación ha salido del gaucho, del rancho, del aislamiento de la provincia, de la barbarie; pero tenía una base poderosa y duradera... Cada provincia interior se reconcentró en sí misma, y al fin se fueron creando relaciones por la guerra, por las alianzas de los caudillos, por los tratados....
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No se renuncia a un porvenir tan inmenso, a una misión tan elevada, por un cúmulo de contradicciones y dificultades. ¡Las dificultades se vencen: las contradicciones se acaban a fuerza de contradecirlas.
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1888· 4 entries
“Son pobres satélites que esperan saber quien ha triunfado para aplaudir. La Rioja, Santiago del Estero y San Luis son piltrafas políticas, provincias que no tienen ni ciudad, ni hombres, ni cosa que valga. Son las entidades más pobres que existen en la tierra.”
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“La Federación ha salido del gaucho, del rancho, del aislamiento de la provincia, de la barbarie; pero tenía una base poderosa y duradera... Cada provincia interior se reconcentró en sí misma, y al fin se fueron creando relaciones por la guerra, por las alianzas de los caudillos, por los tratados....”
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“No se renuncia a un porvenir tan inmenso, a una misión tan elevada, por un cúmulo de contradicciones y dificultades. ¡Las dificultades se vencen: las contradicciones se acaban a fuerza de contradecirlas.”
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1882· 1 entry
Sarmiento was successful in passing the sanction of Free Education allowing schools to be free, mandatory, and separate from that of religion
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1875· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Argentine Chamber of Senators (1875–1879).
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Following his term as President, Sarmiento became the General Director of Schools for the Province of Buenos Aires
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1874· 2 entries
Completed his term as President and stepped down, handing his presidency over to Nicolás Avellaneda, his former Minister of Education
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It was decided that arbitration by the King of England would settle the disputes between them
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1873· 1 entry
The National Bank was created, which lent money at low interest or to insolvent debtors
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1872· 1 entry
Brazil signed a boundary treaty with Paraguay by which it awarded itself all the disputed territory, and then supported Paraguay in defending itself against Argentine claims
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1871· 1 entry
A yellow fever epidemic—probably a consequence of the war—caused the deaths of around 14,000 people in Buenos Aires
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1869· 1 entry
Conducted Argentina's first national census
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1868· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of Argentina (1868–1874).
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1865· 1 entry
Soon after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
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1863· 2 entries
Sarmiento fought against the power of the caudillo of La Rioja and found himself in conflict with the Interior Minister of General Mitre's government, Guillermo Rawson
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Career landmark: ambassador of Argentina to the United States (1863–1868).
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1862· 1 entry
Career landmark: Governor of San Juan province (1862–1864).
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1861· 1 entry
Shortly after Mitre became Argentine president, that Sarmiento left Buenos Aires and returned to San Juan, where he was elected governor, a post he took up in 1862
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1857· 2 entries
“Will we be able to exterminate the Indians? For the savages of America, I feel an invincible repugnance that I cannot cure. Those scoundrels are not anything more than disgusting Indians that I would hang if they reappeared. Lautaro and Caupolicán are dirty Indians, because that”
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“Las elecciones de 1857 fueron las más libres y más ordenadas que ha presentado la América.”
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1856· 1 entry
And 1857 he joined the provincial Senate, a position he held until 1861
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1855· 1 entry
Put an end to what was now his "self-imposed" exile in Chile: he arrived in Buenos Aires, soon to become editor-in-chief of the newspaper El Nacional
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1854· 1 entry
Sarmiento briefly visited Mendoza, just across the border from Chile in Western Argentina, but he was arrested and imprisoned
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1851· 1 entry
And the first English translation, by Mary Mann, appeared in 1868
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1850· 1 entry
Published both Argirópolis and Recuerdos de Provincia (Recollections of a Provincial Past)
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1848· 1 entry
Sarmiento voluntarily left to Chile once again
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1847· 1 entry
(edited and translated into English by Michael Aaron Rockland)
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1845· 1 entry
In Chile in installments in El Progreso newspaper, Facundo is Sarmiento's most famous work
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1843· 1 entry
Sarmiento published Mi Defensa ("My Defence"), while continuing to teach
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1842· 1 entry
Sarmiento was appointed the Director of the first Normal School in South America; the same year he also founded the newspaper El Progreso
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1841· 1 entry
Samiento started writing for the Valparaíso newspaper El Mercurio, as well working as a publisher of the Crónica Contemporánea de Latino América ("Contemporary Latin American Chronicle")
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1840· 1 entry
After being arrested and accused of conspiracy, Sarmiento was forced into exile in Chile again
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1838· 1 entry
Wrote to Alberdi seeking the latter's advice; and in time he would become the group's most fervent supporter
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1836· 1 entry
Sarmiento returned to San Juan, seriously ill with typhoid fever; his family and friends thought he would die upon his return, but he recovered and established an anti-federalist journal called El Zonda
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1835· 1 entry
“No se tiene aún noticia de ciudadano alguno que no fuese a votar (Plebiscito del 26, 27 y 28 de marzo de 1835 en Buenos Aires por el cual la ciudadanía se pronunció en concederle la Suma del Poder Público a Rosas) Debo decirlo en obsequio de la verdad histórica, nunca hubo un gobierno más popular y deseado ni más sostenido por la opinión... que el de Don Juan Manuel de Rosas.”
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1827· 1 entry
The Unitarians were challenged by Federalist forces
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1826· 1 entry
An assembly elected Bernardino Rivadavia as president of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata
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1823· 1 entry
The Minister of State, Bernardino Rivadavia, announced that the six top pupils of each state would be selected to receive higher education in Buenos Aires
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1821· 1 entry
But for reasons unknown, Sarmiento did not enter the seminary, returning instead to San Juan with his father
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1816· 1 entry
At the age of five, Sarmiento began attending the primary school La Escuela de la Patria
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1811· 1 entry
Born 1811-02-15.
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