May Revolution
The May Revolution was a week-long series of events that took place from May 18 to 25, 1810, in Buenos Aires, capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. The result was the removal of Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros and the establishment of a local government, the Primera Junta. It was the first successful revolution in the South American Independence process.
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The May Revolution was a week-long series of events that took place from May 18 to 25, 1810, in Buenos Aires, capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. The result was the removal of Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros and the establishment of a local government, the Primera Junta. The junta would eventually become the country of Argentina. It was the first successful revolution in the South American Independence process. As similar events occurred in many other cities of the continent, the May Revolution is also considered one of the early events of the Spanish American wars of independence. The May Revolution began the Argentine War of Independence, although no formal declaration of independence was issued at the time. The ideals of the French Revolution of 1789 spread across Europe and the Americas as well. The overthrow and execution of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette ended centuries of monarchy and removed the privileges of the nobility. The U.S. Declaration of independence from Great Britain in 1776 led criollos to believe that revolution and independence from Spain were feasible. The concept of the divine right of kings was questioned by the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, by the oft-quoted statement “all men are equal” in the United States Declaration of Independence and even by the Spanish church. However, the spread of such ideas was forbidden in the Spanish territories, as was the sale of related books or their related books when it declared war on Spain.
The idea that it would be a crime to end one’s allegiance to the parent state was weakened by the fact that Spain aided the colonies in their struggle against Britain. In 1775 and 1783, the American patriots of the Thirteen Colonies waged the American Revolutionary War against both the local loyalists and the Kingdom of Great Britain, eventually establishing a popular government in the place of the British monarchy. This resulted in the outbreak of war between the regions that accepted the outcome of the events at Buenos Aires and those that did not. The events at Caracas, Venezuela, found their way into the Spanish colonies through their proximity to the West Indies, owing to the proximity of Venezuela and Venezuela. Many enlightened criollo authors and authors came into contact with their works during their studies in Europe or in their university studies in the West. In the West, copies of the publications of French Revolution spread around Spain despite efforts to keep them at bay despite the Spanish attempts to keep the French at bay. The news of these events arrived in Buenos Buenos Aires on May 18, brought by British ships. On May 22, delegates denied recognition to the Council of Regency in Spain and established a junta to govern in place of Ciseros, since the government that had appointed him Viceroys no longer existed. To maintain a sense of continuity, Cisnero was initially appointed president of the Junta, but this caused much popular unrest, so he resigned.
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