May, 25, 1810
Drawing, Fernández Villanueva.
After
the Napoleonic invasion of Spain and the consequent imprisonment of their
king, a revolutionary wave broke out in the colony still ruled by the Virreinato
del Río de la Plata. Perhaps under the influence of the recent
independence processes in other countries, finally the criollos (natives)
became their own policy-makers on May, 25, 1810. Independence of Argentina:
On July, 9, 1816, the Congress of Tucumán proclaimed
the independence of the Provincias Unidas de América del Sur
(United Provinces of the South). But difficulties were far from having ended:
they had only just begun. 
