Argentina returns to democracy
1983 · Event
Discredited by defeat, the junta holds elections; Raúl Alfonsín takes office and puts the regime's leaders on trial.
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- Spanish Conquest of the Americas (1519)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521)
- Columbian Exchange (1492)
- Haitian Revolution begins (1791)
- Toussaint Louverture issues Haitian constitution (1801)
- Pizarro executes Atahualpa (1533)
- Falklands War (1982)
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- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
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