1841 in Uruguay

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Events in the year 1841 in Uruguay .

Incumbents

Executive branch

• President: Fructuoso Rivera.
• Minister of Government and Foreign Relations: Francisco Antonino Vidal Gosende.
• Minister of Finance: Alejandro Chucarro, later José de Béjar.
• Minister of War and Navy: Enrique Santiago del Carmen. ^[1]

Legislative branch

• President of the Senate: Joaquín Suárez. ^[2]
• President of the Chamber of Deputies: Julián Álvarez. ^[2]

Events

• 11 February – Uruguayan Civil War: The right of prize was decreed as a "good prize" to seize every Argentine ship with credentials of the Governor of Buenos Aires along with its cargo, that were navigating in Uruguay, Paraná and de la Plata rivers, and later those from high seas, except for ships coming from Corrientes province. ^[3]
• 27 November – The execution of a national census was ordered. ^[4]

Births

• 9 January - Julio Herrera y Obes, Uruguayan politician, lawyer and journalist, also President of Uruguay in the 1890–1894 term (d. 1912). ^[5]
• 3 February - Conrado Villegas, Argentine military officer born in Uruguay (d. 1884).
• 4 February - Jacobo Varela, Uruguayan educator and politician, also served as Minister of Finance in 1889-1890 (d. 1900). ^[5]

Deaths

• 11 August: Jacinto Ventura de Molina, writer (b. 1766). ^[6]
• 30 August: Luis Eduardo Pérez, politician, Governor of the Eastern Province  [ es ] in 1827–1828, Provisional Governor of Uruguay in 1828 and Interim President in early 1830 (b. 1774). ^[5]
• 29 September: Adolfo Berro, Uruguayan poet (b. 1819). ^[5]

References

1. "Ministros de Defensa" (in Spanish). Ministerio de Defensa Nacional. Retrieved 29 March 2021– via gub.uy.
2. Parlamentarios uruguayos 1830-2005 (PDF) (in Spanish). Parlamento de Uruguay; Ediciones de la Proa. December 2006. pp. 77–94. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2021. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
3. Armand Ugón, E.; Cerdeiras Alonso, J. C.; Arcos Ferrand, L.; Goldaracena, C., eds. (1930). "GUERRA CON EL GOBIERNO DE BUENOS AIRES. Declárase buena presa todo buque con pabellón argentino y se autoriza el corso". Compilación de leyes y decretos (in Spanish). 2: 329–331.
4. Armand Ugón, E.; Cerdeiras Alonso, J. C.; Arcos Ferrand, L.; Goldaracena, C., eds. (1930). "CENSO. Se ordena su levantamiento en todo el territorio de la República". Compilación de leyes y decretos (in Spanish). 2: 334–335.
5. Fernández Saldaña, José María (1945). Diccionario uruguayo de biografías 1810-1940 (in Spanish). Montevideo: Amerindia. pp. 188–189, 632–637, 997–998, 1259–1261.
6. de Navascués, Javier (2011). "Las estrategias contrarrevolucionarias de Jacinto V. de Molina" (PDF). Philologia Hispalensis (in Spanish) (25). Universidad de Sevilla: 133–146. doi: 10.12795/PH.2011.v25.i01.08 . ISSN   1132-0265 . Retrieved 7 April 2021.