List of wars involving Argentina

• The territories are incorporated into the Collasuyo.
• The towns are submitted to the Empire's state economic and labor administration system.
• Beginning of the acculturation of the natives.
• Continuation of hostilities against the Guarani tribes.
• Fails expansion attempt towards the northern Chaco.

• Port of Santa Maria del Buen Aire

• The city is burned down by the natives in 1536, it was later reconstructed by the conquerors
• The Spanish destroy the city and migrate to Asunción in 1541

• Tucuman Governorate

• Various Spanish cities destroyed
• Weakening of the Diaguita leadership and later acceptance of the encomienda by the natives

• Río de la Plata and Paraguay Governorate
  • Jesuitic Guaraní Tribes

• Rise of the tensions with the Portuguese conquerors
• Death of Juan de Garay

• Río de la Plata and Paraguay Governorate

• Revolution crushed

• Tucuman Governorate

• Rebellion against the encomienda crushed
• Omaguacas' land annexed to the Spanish territory

• Río de la Plata and Paraguay Governorate

• The island Martín García remains in Spanish control
• Attacks on Buenos Aires repelled
• Pirate incursions dramatically reduced
• Foundation of Montevideo

• Tucuman Governorate

• The Spanish Empire defeat and annex the Diaguitas, but are unable to annex the rest of the confederation.
• The natives get rid of the encomienda
• The Quilmes become the leaders of the confederation

(1641)

Guaraníes of the Jesuit Missions
Jesuits

Bandeirantes from São Paulo
Tupíes

• Tucuman Governorate

• End of the Diaguita rebellions
• Full annexation of the Diaguita Confederation by Spain

• Río de la Plata Governorate
• Tucuman Governorate
• Paraguay Governorate

• Colonial Brazil

• Spanish occupy Sacramento
• Sacramento is given back to Portugal in 1683

• Río de la Plata Governorate

Guaraní Tribes

• 300 Charrúas were killed during the negotiations
• Decisive weakening of the Charrúa forces

• Río de la Plata Governorate

• Colonial Brazil

• Spanish occupy Sacramento
• Sacramento is given back to Portugal in 1715

• Rebellion crushed
• Paraguayan people lose their right to vote

• Status quo ante bellum^[4][5][6]

• Río de la Plata Governorate

• The Falklands are annexed to Spain as Malvinas
• Withdrawal of both forces from the islands

• First Treaty of San Ildefonso

Kingdom of Portugal

• State of Brazil

• Treaty of Badajoz
• Question of Olivença
• Territory of Brazil expanded
• Portuguese territory returned, except Olivenza, and border territories, which remained in Spanish possession; France territorial guarantees in Trinidad, Port Mahon (Menorca) and Malta, as well as lands north of Brazil; Southern Spanish America loses territory to Portuguese Brazil

• Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata

• Both invasions repelled

• Action of 2 June 1807 (2-3 June 1807) - Spanish victory
• Battle of Miserere (2 July 1807) - British victory

Argentine participation in:

• Argentine War of Independence
• Bolivian War of Independence
• Independence of Paraguay^{[Note 1]}
• Chilean War of Independence
• Mexican War of Independence^{[Note 2]}
• Peruvian War of Independence
• Ecuadorian War of Independence

• Disintegration of Spanish America^{[Note C]}

• Diplomatic recognition in 1821 (Portugal), 1822 (US), and 1825 (UK).
• Spain retained the islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico until the Spanish–American War of 1898.
• Banda Oriental and Spanish Texas become part of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves and First Mexican Empire respectively.

• Battle of Tucumán
  (24-25 September 1812) - Patriot victory
• Battle of San Lorenzo
  (3 February 1813) - Patriot victory
• Battle of Salta
  (20 February 1813) - Patriot victory
• Battle of Martín García
  (10-15 March 1814) - Patriot victory
• Battle of Yavi
  (15 November 1816) - Spanish victory

United Provinces

• Status quo ante bellum
• Signing of the Herrera-Rademaker Treaty
• Withdrawal of Portuguese and (temporary) patriot troops from the Banda Oriental (Eastern Bank)

1814–1876:
Federalists

• League of the Free Peoples (1814–1820)
• Argentine Confederation (1831–1861)
• Federalists rebels

Blancos

• Gobierno del Cerrito

 Paraguay

1868-1880
Autonomists

1814–1876:
Unitarians

• Supreme Directorship (1814–1820)
• Exiled Unitarians (1829–1852)
• State of Buenos Aires

Colorados

• Gobierno de la Defensa

 Brazil

 Paraguay

• Sanction of the Constitution in 1853
• From 1868 onwards there was a new civil war between the Liberals and Nationalists
• Federalization of Buenos Aires in 1880

• Buenos Aires
• Tucuman
• Salta
• Cuyo
• La Rioja

Republic of Entre Ríos

• Banda Oriental
• Entre Ríos
• Corrientes
• Santa Fe
• Misiones Occidentales
• Córdoba
  Charrúa Tribes
  Guaycuru Tribes
  Santiago del Estero

• End of the Federal League and the directory
• Anarchy of the 20's
• La Rioja separates from Cordoba
• Creation of the Entre Rios Republic and Tucuman Republic
• Separation of Cuyo into Mendoza, San Luis and San Juan
• Reintegration of Santiago del Estero into Tucuman

• Battle of Cepeda (1 February 1820) - Federalist victory

Federal League

• Entre Ríos
• Misiones
• Corrientes
• Santa Fe
• Córdoba

Luso-Brazilian victory

• Annexation of the Banda Oriental by the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves

• Battle of Apóstoles (2 July 1817) - Federal victory
• Battle of San Carlos (1817) - Luso-Brazilian victory

• Bouchard continues his expedition on the Pacific Ocean
• Incident on Jolo

• Reconciliation after the arrival of the Sulu leader
• Bouchard continues his expedition to reach the Philippines

United Provinces of the Río de la Plata

• New Spain

• Temporary occupation and looting of Monterey
• Temporary raise of the Argentine flag on Monterey

• Territorial expansion to the west

• The Entre Ríos Republic separates into the provinces of Entre Ríos and Corrientes

• Andes Auxiliary Division

• More autonomy of La Rioja
• Francisco Aldao had to withdraw from the province of La Rioja
• Nicolás Dávila takes over as governor of the province
• Facundo Quiroga's first important victory

• Santiago del Estero separates from Tucuman as a new province
• Catamarca's secession from Tucuman
• End of the Tucuman Republic (which despite the name wasn't a country)

Thirty-Three Orientals

• Cisplatina becomes independent as Uruguay^[a]

• Battle of Punta Colares (9 February 1826) - Inconclusive
• Battle of Quilmes (29-30 July 1826) - Brazilian victory
• Battle of Carmen de Patagones (7 March 1827) - United Provinces victory
• Battle of Monte Santiago (7-8 April 1827) - Brazillan victory

Boroan Confederation

• End of the Montoneras of Pincheira
• Argentine campaign on the Desert (1833–1834)

• Buenos Aires
• Tucumán
• Salta
• Catamarca
• Venezuelan Mercenaries^{[Note 4]}

• La Rioja
• Córdoba
• Santiago del Estero

• Bernandino Rivadavia resigns
• Manuel Dorrego becomes the new president

• Mendoza
• San Luis
• San Juan
• Salta
• Tucumán
• Santiago del Estero
• Córdoba
• Catamarca
• La Rioja

• Buenos Aires
• Entre Ríos
• Corrientes
• Santa Fe
• Montoneras of Quiroga

• Fall of Manuel Dorrego
• Rise and fall of Juan Lavalle
• Rise of Juan Manuel de Rosas
• End of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata
• Start of the Argentine Confederation

• Battle of San Roque (22 April 1829 - Decembrist revolution) - Unitarian victory
• Battle of Márquez Bridge (26 April 1829 - Decembrist revolution) - Federal victory
• Battle of Famaillá (19 September 1841) - Federal victory
• Battle of Caaguazú (28 November 1841) - Unitarian victory

• Causus belli for the War between Argentina and Peru–Bolivian Confederation
• Unitarian uprising crushed
• The Colorados take over Uruguay
• Argentine invasion of Uruguay
• Jujuy separates from Salta as a new province
• Death of Facundo Quiroga
• Start of the second term of Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1835

United States

• Americans rescued
• Suspects captured
• Island evacuated
• Temporary severing of Argentina–United States relations
• Indirectly resulted in reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands

• Argentine territorial expansion
• Rise of the popularity of Juan Manuel de Rosas

• End of Boroan influence on the Pampas
• Calfucurá becomes the leader of the entirety of Puelmapu, forming the Confederation of Salinas Grandes

• Chile
• Peruvian restorers
  • La Fuente government
    (1837)
  • Gamarra government
    (1838–1839)

Argentine Confederation
(since 1837)

• Fall and dissolution of the Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation declared by Agustín Gamarra
• Peruvian reunification and restoration of the republics of Peru and Bolivia
• Exile of Andrés de Santa Cruz to Ecuador
• Continue the Second Iquichan War
• Through negotiations with Bolivia, Argentina recovers the territories of the provinces of Jujuy and Salta that were occupied during the war^[13]

Argentine Confederation

Peru–Bolivian Confederation

• Subsequent peace between the Argentine Confederation and Bolivia after the dissolution of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation
• Through negotiations with Bolivia, Argentina recovers the territories of the provinces of Jujuy and Salta that were occupied during the war^[14]

Argentine Confederation
Supported by:
Blancos

• Signing of the Mackau-Arana Treaty:

  Blockade lifted

  Payment of reparations by Argentina to the French within 6 months.

  Return of Martín García Island to Argentina

  Return of captured Argentine ships

  Granting of "most favored nation" status (demanded by France).

  Theoretical political amnesty for opponents of Rosas (demanded by France)

  Precedent to the Anglo-French Blockade of the Río de la Plata

• The Blancos party creates the Government of Cerrito, which controlled most of Uruguay.
• The Colorados remain in control of Montevideo, creating the Government of La Defensa.
• Great Siege of Montevideo.

Blancos

• Gobierno del Cerrito (since 1843)

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• The Colorado Party triumphs in Uruguay.
• In Argentina, Rosas is overthrown by Urquiza in the Battle of Caseros.
• Argentine Unification War.

• Battle of Arroyo Grande (6 December 1842) - Blanco victory
• Battle of Vuelta de Obligado (20 November 1845) - Pyrrhic strategic Anglo-French victory, diplomatic Argentine victory

• Buenos Aires
• Entre Ríos
• Santa Fe
• Mendoza
• San Luis
• San Juan
• Santiago del Estero
• Córdoba

Blancos

• Jujuy
• Salta
• Tucumán
• Catamarca
• La Rioja
• Corrientes

Support:
France

• Death of Juan Lavalle

• Giuseppe Garibaldi escapes to Montevideo

Besiegers:

• The siege is relieved after the intervention of the Empire of Brazil and the Entre Ríos province of Argentina.

• Revolution crushed
• Corrientes reintegrated into Argentina
• Growth of Paraguayan influence on the disputed province of Misiones

• Maritime blocking of Montevideo resumed
• Prosecution of the American officer, Philip Voorhees

 Argentina
Supported by:
White Party

• Arana–Southern Treaty
• Arana–Lepredour Treaty

• Battle of Vuelta de Obligado
• Battle of San Lorenzo (1846)
• Battle of Quebracho

• Corrientes

Support:
Entre Ríos

Support:
Brazil

• Paraguayan army expulsed from most of Misiones except for Candelaria and Trinchera San Jose.

Defence Government

Argentine rebels

• Entre Ríos
• Corrientes
• Santa Fe

Co-belligerent:
Paraguay (1845–1850)
Supported by:
Bolivia
 United Kingdom
 France
Paraguay (1851–1852)

• Buenos Aires clout over the Platine region ends^[18]
• Brazilian hegemony in the Platine region starts
• End of Rosas rule in Argentina

• Battle of the Tonelero Pass (17 December 1851)
• Battle of Caseros (3 February 1852 - Allied victory

Argentina

Buenos Aires

• Argentine reunification

• Battle of Cepeda (23 October 1859) - Argentine Confederation victory
• Battle of Pavón (17 September 1861) - State of Buenos Aires victory

• Calfulcurá is defeated and dies one year after that

• The Colorados take over the Uruguayan government
• Start of the Paraguayan War

• Paraguayan Legion

Uruguay

• Allied occupation of Paraguay
• Argentina definitively asserts its sovereignty on the Misiones Province and other territories south of the Pilcomayo River
• Brazil definitively asserts its sovereignty on Mato Grosso do Sul

• Battle of Riachuelo (11 June 1865) - Brazilian victory

• Mendoza
• San Luis
• San Juan
• La Rioja
• Chilean volunteers

• Felipe Varela escapes from the country

• Entre Ríos Province

• Death of Justo José de Urquiza
• Defeat of Ricardo López Jordán
• End of the era of caudillos

• Wichí
• Toba
• Pilagá
• Mocoví

• Annexation of a big part of the Gran Chaco

• Autonomist party's rule of the country through 40 years

• Reestablishment of the government of Jujuy
• Rebel survivors flee to Bolivia

• The genoese revolutionaries are defeated and La Boca is reintegrated into Argentina
• The republic would later reappear as a recreative micronation with no independentist intentions

• Annexation of the eastern Patagonia
• Chile would stop claiming the eastern part of Patagonia
• Emergence of the military and political influence of Argentina in South America

• Federalization of Buenos Aires
• End of the Argentine Civil Wars
• Buenos Aires loses its right to secede

• Battle of Los Corrales (21 June 1880) - Buenos Aires victory

• 3,900 Selkʼnams killed
  • Only around 900 of the deaths were directly inflicted due to most victims dying due to diseases unknown to them
• Death of the last native speaker of the Selkʼnam language in the 1980s^[19]
• Extinction of the Yagán domestic fox used by the Selkʼnam

• Annexation of most of the Puna de Atacama in 1888

• President Miguel Juárez Celman resigns, Vice President Carlos Pellegrini assumes the presidency
• Revolution crushed by the government

• Revolution crushed by the government

• Russia withdraws from Manchuria
• Improvement of relations between Argentina and Japan

• Venezuelan debt dispute resolved
• European fleet withdraws
• Argentina's Drago Doctrine becomes famous internationally

• Sáenz Peña law sanctioned in 1912, which allowed secret, universal and mandatory suffrage
• Revolution crushed by the government

• Incarceration of Chileans settlers
• The settlers were released a month later they returned to Chile

• Compañía Argentina de Pesca

United Kingdom

• Falkland Islands Dependencies

• The working conditions and salary of the whalers would be improved
• Revolution crushed by the government

• Argentine Patriotic League

• Anarchists and Communists

• Rebellion crushed
• Multiple human rights violations towards immigrants and Jews
• First pogrom on the history of the Americas
• Roots of fascism in Argentina

• Anarchists and Communists

Support:
Carabineros de Chile

• Rebellion crushed
• Facón Grande executed

• Argentine military seizes power
• Overthrow of Hipólito Yrigoyen
• Start of the Infamous Decade

• Paraguay gets most of the disputed zone with Bolivia

• Revolution crushed by the government

• Combat of the ESMA

• Argentine military seizes power
• Overthrow of Ramón Castillo
• End of the Infamous Decade
• Rise of Juan Domingo Perón's popularity
• Argentina remains neutral through most of World War II
• Tension between the Allies and Argentina

• Argentina during World War II

• Collapse of the German Reich
• Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
• Creation of the United Nations
• Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
• Beginning of the Cold War

• U-977 and U-530 surrender to the Argentine Navy.
• Several nazis secretly protected by Argentina by the use of ratlines.
• Thousands of Argentine volunteers served with all three British armed services, particularly the Royal Air Force, as well as the Royal Canadian Air Force.^[22][23]

• Guerrillas defeated
• Paraguay would later save Juan Domingo Perón from the Liberating Revolution.

• Loyal Armed Forces

Nationalist Liberation Alliance
CGT

• Radicals
• Catholic Action

• Argentine military seizes power
• Overthrow of Juan Domingo Perón
• Political persecution of Peronism

• Rebel guerrillas dissolved some years after the conflict
• Former members would join later join Montoneros or FAR

• Argentine Army
• Argentine Air Force

• Argentine Navy

• Colorados revolt suppressed
• Argentina joins the blockade against Cuba
• End of military rule, presidential elections of 1963

• Argentina
• Venezuela
• Colombia
• Dominican Republic
• Trinidad and Tobago

• Expulsion of Cuba from the OAS
• Naval blockade of Cuba towards the USSR

Support:
Cuba

• Disarticulation of the guerrilla
• The failure of the guerrilla movement led Che Guevara to consider the possibility of participating in other places outside the country or on other continents.
• The attempt of revolution, along with the later fall of Tacuara and the bad decisions taken by the government of Ongania would later provoke the Cycle of Azos and creation of far-leftist guerrillas

(1963-1966)

• Argentine Federal Police

• The Tacuara Nationalist Movement is dissolved
• Founder of the guerrillas, José Joe Baxter, becomes communist and creates the ERP
• Without Tacuara, far-left guerrillas begin to appear.
  • Former members would later become part of the Triple A to fight communism

• Argentina gets the disputed zone

(1969-1972)

• The uprisings are suppressed
• Ongania, Levingston and Lanusse resign
• The Military junta collapses in 1973
• Juan Domingo Perón comes back from exile

• See also: Operativo Independencia

• Triple A

Support:
United States

• Leftist guerrillas defeated mostly eradicated by 1979
• 9,500+ guerrillas (4,500+ Montoneros and 5,000 ERP), hundreds of soldiers/police, and 3,252 civilians killed in political violence from 1969 to 1980^[24][25]

Argentina (1976–1983)
United States (1963–1996)

• Signing of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship in 1984
• Bioceanity of Argentina and Chile. Not mutually recognized.
• Chile's support to the United Kingdom during the Falklands War

• Chapultepec Peace Accords of 1992
• Restructuring of Salvadoran Armed Forces
• National and Treasury Police are dissolved (new civilian-overseen police created)
• FMLN becomes a political party, its combatants are exonerated

• Status quo ante bellum in South Georgia and the Falklands
• Argentine occupation of Southern Thule ended
• Collapse of the military junta

• Uprisings stopped

• Argentine army and police victory

• Argentina
• United States
• Kuwait
• United Kingdom
• Saudi Arabia
• France
• Italy
• Canada
• Egypt
• Syria
• Morocco
• United Arab Emirates
• Pakistan
• Oman
• Qatar

• Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait
• Argentina is designated as a major non-NATO ally by United States

• Argentina
• United States
• Canada
• Denmark
• France
• Jordan
•   Nepal
• Spain
• UK

• Croatian forces regain control over most of RSK-held Croatian territory
• Croatian forces advance into Bosnia and Herzegovina which helps lead to the eventual end of the Bosnian War
• Argentine arms trafficking scandal

• Reinstatement of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as President of Haiti

Argentina
Support:
United States
Venezuelan opposition

• Release and exile of the venezuelan opposition staff members on 6 may, 2025.
• The siege on the Argentine Embassy ends

Ukraine
Support:
Argentina
NATO
European Union
United States
South Korea
Japan

Russia
Support:
Belarus
North Korea
Iran

• Improvement of the Argentina–Ukraine relations

United States

• Puerto Rico

Venezuelan opposition
Support:
Argentina
Cuban opposition
Dominican Republic
Trinidad and Tobago
El Salvador

Venezuela

• Cartel of the Suns

Cuba
Support:
Russia

• US military buildup in the Caribbean
• US oil blockade of Venezuela since 10 December 2025
• The US military forces capture Venezuela president Nicolás Maduro and his wife
• 2026 Cuban crisis

Bolivian Workers' Center

• Supporters of Evo Morales
  • Red Ponchos
• Bolivian miners, teachers, farmers, and other workers

Government of Bolivia

• Bolivian National Police

Support:
 Argentina
 Chile
 Ecuador

• Administrative capital of La Paz under siege.