Juan Perón comes to power
1946 · Event
Perón wins Argentina's presidency, founding the populist Peronist movement that has dominated its politics ever since.
On these timelines: Latin America, Master
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- Machu Picchu built (1450)
- Panama Canal opens (1914)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Haitian Revolution begins (1791)
- Toussaint Louverture issues Haitian constitution (1801)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Founding of Tenochtitlán (1325)
- Gabriel García Márquez (1927)
Around 1946
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- German invasion of Poland (1939)
- Cold War (1947)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Death of Hitler / Fall of Berlin (1945)
- Fall of France (1940)
- Battle of Britain (1940)