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In February 1945, Uruguay signed the Declaration by United Nations and subsequently declared war on the Axis powers but did not participate in any actual fighting. [99] Simultaneously with the war in Europe, in Uruguay there was a lack of agreement between the factions of the different parties regarding the constitutional reform.
The rest of the division made it to the end of March 1816. The division was commanded by General Carlos Frederico Lecor. On May 13, 1816, birthday of the new King, John VI observed with praise and wonder his new invasion troops. The plan of operations behaved offensively, invading the Banda Oriental and the area of Argentine Mesopotamia.
Montevideo Department was one of the first departments created in the current territory of Uruguay, then Provincia Oriental. It was created on 27 January 1816 by Montevideo Cabildo's decree and approved by José Artigas on next 3 February, at the same time Maldonado, Soriano, Canelones, San José and Colonia departments were being created.
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Soriano (Spanish pronunciation:) is a department of Uruguay. Its capital is Mercedes. It is located on the west of the country, south of Río Negro Department, north of Colonia Department and west of Flores Department. Its western border is the Río Uruguay, separating it from Argentina.
The first division of Uruguay into six departments occurred on 27 January 1816. In February of the same year, two more departments were formed, and in 1828 one more was added. When the country's first constitution was signed in 1830, there were nine departments: Montevideo, Maldonado, Canelones, San José, Colonia, Soriano, Paysandú, Durazno ...
The scope of this article begins in 1815, after a round of negotiations about European borders and spheres of influence were agreed upon at the Congress of Vienna. [3] The Congress of Vienna was a nine-month, pan-European meeting of statesmen who met to settle the many issues arising from the destabilising impact of the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the ...
Colonial Uruguay (1624−1822) — the Spanish colonial period (1624−1811) and Portuguese colonial period (1811−1822) of present day Uruguay in South America. Administratively part of the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru until 1776 and the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata to 1811, and the Portuguese Cisplatina Province of Colonial Brazil to ...