1912 in Ecuador
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Incumbents
- President: Carlos Freile Zaldumbide until March 6, Francisco Andrade MarÃn until August 10, Alfredo Baquerizo until September 1, Leónidas Plaza
Events
- January 4 - former President Eloy Alfaro returned to Ecuador and attempted another coup but was defeated, arrested and jailed by General and former President Leonidas Plaza.
- January 28 - a group of pro-Catholic soldiers supported by a mob, broke into the prison where Alfaro and his colleagues were detained and dragged them along the cobbled streets of the city center.[1][2] This sparks the Concha Revolution.
- Ecuadorian presidential election, 1912
Births
Deaths
- January 28 - Eloy Alfaro, former President