The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata meaning "River of the Silver",also called "Viceroyalty of the River Plate" in some scholarly writings,in southern South America,was the last to be organized and also the shortest-lived of the Viceroyalties of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. The name "Provincias del Río de la Plata" was formally adopted in 1810 during the Cortes of Cádiz to designate the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.
The Governorate of the Río de la Plata (1549−1776) was one of the governorates of the Spanish Empire. It was created in 1549 by Spain in the area around the Río de la Plata.
Banda Oriental,or more fully Banda Oriental del Uruguay,was the name of the South American territories east of the Uruguay River and north of Río de la Plata that comprise the modern nation of Uruguay;the modern state of Rio Grande do Sul,Brazil;and some of the modern state of Santa Catarina,Brazil. It was the easternmost territory of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.
Merlo is the head town of the eponymous partido of Merlo and seat of the municipal government,located in the Greater Buenos Aires urban area of Buenos Aires Province,Argentina.
The Real Audiencia de Buenos Aires,were two audiencias,or highest courts,of the Spanish crown,which operated in Buenos Aires. The jurisdiction of the first covered the territory of the Governorate of the Río de la Plata and operated from 1661 to 1671. The second began to function in 1783 and had jurisdiction over the parts of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata not covered by the Audiencia de Charcas,that is to say the intendancies of Buenos Aires,Córdoba del Tucumán,Salta del Tucumán and Paraguay. In 1810,after the May Revolution,it was suspended,and in 1813 the Assembly of the Year XIII permanently abolished it. The Audiencias operated in the city's cabildo building.
Juan de Canaveris was an Piedmontese lawyer and politician,who served during the viceroyalty of Río de la Plata as accounting officer in the Tribunal de Cuentas de Buenos Aires. He had achieved a high social status in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata,where he supported the revolutionary movements of May,being the only neighbor of Italian origin who attended in the Open Cabildo,of May 22,1810.
Miguel Gerónimo de Esparza (1678–1767) was a Spanish nobleman,who served during the Viceroyalty of Peru as Attorney and Regidor of Buenos Aires. He also served as Captain of the Militias and acting Mayor of Buenos Aires for several periods.
Francisco de Salas (?-?) was a Spanish military man and politician,who served as captain,mayor,councillor,lieutenant governor,and justice major in the Ciudad de Trinidad y Puerto de Buenos Aires.
Pedro Morales y Mercado was a 17th-century Spanish nobleman,who held different honorific positions in the Río de la Plata,serving as mayor,army officer and treasurer of Buenos Aires.
Francisco Pérez de Burgos (1558-1617) was a Spanish jurist,military man,merchant and politician,who had a preponderant role during the colonial period of Argentina,where he worked as a public and government notary of the city of Buenos Aires.
Juan JoséCanaveris (1780–1837) was an Argentine jurist and politician,who served as military man,lawyer,notary,prosecutor and accountant of Buenos Aires. In 1809 he was honored by the Junta Suprema de Sevilla,for his heroic participation in the defense of Buenos Aires,during the English invasions in the Río de la Plata.
Juan Ángel Michelena was a Spanish naval officer,he fought against the Royal Navy in Cape St. Vincent,and participated heroically in the defense and reconquest of Buenos Aires against the English invaders. He also served as Acting Governor of the city of Montevideo (Uruguay).
Casimiro Alegre (1741–1825) was an Argentine politician and military man,who had an outstanding participation during the Viceroyalty of Peru and Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata,serving as alcalde of campaign in the Province of Buenos Aires,and as Commandant in the Regiment of Blandengues of the Frontier of Buenos Aires.
Francisco López de Osornio Merlo was a Spanish military leader and landowner,who served during the Viceroyalty of Peru as Captain of the provincial militias of Buenos Aires.
Pedro de Roxas Acevedo was a Spanish military officer,and politician,who served in Buenos Aires and Asunción holding honorary positions,including the post of Governor of the Río de la Plata and Paraguay,on an interim term between January 8,1641,to July 17,1641.
Miguel Antonio de Merlos (1669-c.1744) was a Spanish military man and politician,who served during the colonial period of Buenos Aires. He held various positions,including Sargento Mayor of the Compañía of Guardias Españolas and Governor of the province of Porco.
Joseph Zenzano (c.1710–1790) was a Spanish nobleman,who served as Escribano Mayor de Gobierno of Buenos Aires,in the viceroyalty of Juan Joséde Vértiz y Salcedo.
Domingo de Basavilbaso was a Spanish politician and military,who served during the colonial period of Argentina as alcalde,comandante,procurador and regidor of Buenos Aires. He was the founder of the Basavilbaso family in Buenos Aires,related from the colonial period to the beginning of the 20th century with the main Spanish,Argentine and Uruguayan patrician families.
Tribunal Mayor de Cuentas de Buenos Aires was a governmental organism of the control of the public accounts of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.
Real Asiento de Inglaterra or Real Asiento de la Gran Bretaña,was the name in Spanish of the subsidiary in Buenos Aires of the South Sea Company. In 1713,the British Crown established the asiento in the current Plaza San Martín,neighborhood of Retiro.
